He is credited with bringing the first automobile to Anchorage, a truck manufactured by the REO Motor Car Company.
Flamboyantly decked out in a yellow suit and a top hat, he promoted his services with the slogan, "Time and Tide will Not Wait, But City Express Is Never Late."
A newspaper ad for the service contained the following poem: Four bits is my middle name, Truck and passengers just the same No matter from whence you came,
City Express is in the game.He built a logging road from the Anchorage city boundary at Ninth Avenue and L Street, across Chester and Fish Creek, to what was then called "Jeter Lake" after homesteader Thomas Jeter.
Spenard's health failed and he sold his business and moved to Sacramento, California, where he died in 1934.