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Trucking invoice: MacKenzie's Transfer
5 October 1942
Oyster Pond, Nova Scotia

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After the Second World War, trucking companies sprang up all along the Eastern Shore. By 1950, trucking was the main means of bringing goods out to Oyster Pond. Mildred and Garth Hosking had deliveries made by these trucking companies, but they also owned a truck that they used for deliveries and for picking up supplies, often on a weekly trip to Halifax.

A change in business practices during the early 1950s is apparent in the store records. Where once a company delivered a large order and listed it in one monthly invoice, now the companies issued a packing slip, an invoice, and statement. Packing slips were used because a delivery might only be one or two items. The quantity of paper records from the 1950s is about three times the amount of records generated in the 1940s!

By the 1960s, suppliers had consolidated, so that only a few companies were delivering the majority of supplies needed by the store.