Sell your semi truck for cash in Phenix City the easy and convenient way

The node behind this page is carried on the MSHA record as BORAL CLAY PITS — a surface operation working Sand, Industrial NEC, MSHA ID 0100096, operator of record General Shale Brick, Inc., four employees.

The name and the commodity do not obviously agree, and that is the interesting part rather than an error. Brick clay and industrial sand are both surface-mined non-metallics, and a brick manufacturer holding a sand pit is ordinary vertical integration — a company digging its own raw material instead of buying it.

Whether that is what is happening at this particular site is not established on the record, and this page does not claim it is. What is established is the operator, the commodity and the headcount, and a truck driver working out of a gate like that is hauling for a manufacturer rather than for a merchant.

Fifteen industrial-sand rows are left on the Alabama list, and the record on them is thin past the MSHA entry. Four sit together in Monroe County as a genuine coastal-plain sand district; this one does not, and stands on its own.

No destination is established for any of them. No operator name in the set says frac, silica or proppant — they say Sand and Gravel, Materials, Aggregates, Transload — and there is no published tonnage against any row, so freight volume is not established and is not asserted here.

That matters because a page that told you the haul length or the annual tonnage out of the Boral Clay Pits would be making it up. What can honestly be said is narrower and more useful: a small operation, a manufacturer’s name on it, and trucks that mostly belong to somebody else.

Those trucks run under a ceiling with nothing added to it. Ala. Code § 32-9-20 sets overall gross weight at 80,000 lb including all enforcement tolerances, and no commodity allowance for sand, gravel or stone appears in the section.

Alabama sits between two states that answer this differently. Mississippi names sand and gravel first in its § 63-5-33 tolerance list. Tennessee shields natural resources products with an axle-citation provision and 500 lb under § 47-26-812. Georgia struck granite and concrete from HB 189 before it was enacted. Three neighbours, three different answers for the same commodity, and Alabama gives it nothing at all.

Below the state figure, counties may authorise limits lower than the prescribed ones on county highways by resolution, so there is no statewide county-road number and this county’s resolutions were not established here.

Ala. Code § 32-9-20, via docs/state-rules/alabama.md. Information, not legal advice.

The paperwork is one sentence, and everything after it is a fix rather than a category: a lost title has a counter replacement, and where none exists there is a bonded route.

Under Ala. Code § 32-8-87 a total loss is damage at 75% or more of the fair retail value of the vehicle prior to the damage. Payments for medical care, bodily injury or rental are excluded from the figure, and minor theft or vandalism damage is not a total loss regardless of the arithmetic.

Ala. Code § 32-8-87, via docs/state-rules/alabama.md. Information, not legal advice.

None of that narrows what we will look at. Sand and clay bodies, dump trucks, day cabs and road tractors, flatbeds, tankers, rollbacks, service bodies, box trucks and straight trucks, and the work trucks and pickups that go with a plant.

Box trucks and straight trucks are not a Russell County thing in particular — they are everywhere. They are on the list because we buy them here too.

Whatever you drive, the offer doesn’t change. We buy all of them — the tippers running raw material to a brick works and the road tractors working to 80,000 lb on the highway past the pit.

• Does it have to run?No. It does have to be complete — if the engine, transmission, doors, rear ends, drive shafts, wheels or anything under the hood have been removed, we can’t buy it. Rust is not a disqualifier.
• The engine is out of it. Is that different?Yes, and that is the line. A tired engine is fine; an engine that has been pulled and sold means we can’t buy the truck.
• What about the title?We need one unless the truck is old enough that it never had one. Lost titles have a counter replacement; where none exists there’s a bonded route.
• It hauled clay and sand and the body is a mess. Does that matter?Not much. Bodies wear out and that is expected. What stops us is missing driveline or missing major parts, not a beaten tipper body. We see plenty like it around Russell County.
• Do you have to come out to the pit?No, and often we don’t. We buy it remotely and arrange the tow, or we come to you and drive it away or tow it, or you drive it to us.
• I had to do site training before they let me tip. Is that on the truck’s record?No. Part 46 requires site-specific hazard awareness training for over-the-road delivery drivers before work at each mine site. That is about the site and the driver, not the vehicle, and it has nothing to do with selling it — the Boral Clay Pits row is within that scope like any other surface operation.

Those questions come up because the reasons for selling are mostly personal. Retiring. A medical that did not go the way it used to. A hauling arrangement that ended when a plant changed how it bought its material. A truck standing at the back of a yard since somebody stopped driving it, costing insurance every month it does not turn a wheel.

Around Russell County there is usually one waiting, and a good few of them ran short legs out of the Boral Clay Pits for General Shale Brick, whose real business is bricks.

Most of those aren’t happy reasons, and we don’t treat them like they are. Somebody wants a straight answer and the truck gone by the end of the week. That’s what we’re here for.