Out along Essex Avenue the road runs beside the water toward the Little River, and the driveways off it are long, often shared, and often gravel. R B Strong Excavating & Swrg plows that kind of ground in Gloucester — hundreds of feet at a stretch, with turnarounds cut wide enough that a delivery truck can think about it. Walks, steps and door approaches come out by hand, and sand or salt goes down where the grade sends the melt. Frost heaves and soft shoulders make a gravel drive its own puzzle, and the blade gets set to suit it. A long drive opened end to end is a good thing to look back at.