Pima County
A four-person mill, and a record that agrees with itself
One row is filed at this town: the Fraguita Mill Site, working gold ore with 4 employees under GoodMark Capital Group Inc.
What is unusual about it is that it checks out. Cross-referenced against this state’s directory of active mines, the Fraguita Mill Site appears as a mill working gold and silver, and the directory record sits 0.7 miles from the node coordinate. Same name, same commodity, same place to within a few hundred yards. Several rows elsewhere in this state disagree with themselves by tens of miles; this one does not, and that is worth saying when it happens.
What it is not is big. Four people is the entire recorded workforce at this town, working a mill rather than a pit — which means processing on site rather than a stream of loaded trucks going out of the gate every day.
So there is almost no local haulage, and that is the fact that matters
That match — a four-person mill 0.7 miles from its directory record — is a precise fact about a very small thing.
A mill concentrates material before it moves, so the freight the Fraguita Mill Site generates is occasional and low-volume: a load out when there is one to move, and reagent or supplies in. That is not a fleet. Whatever trucks are around here belong to ranching, small construction and people who need a truck because there is no alternative, not to an industry that keeps them turning.
For a seller in Pima County that has one consequence and it is the important one: there is no local market. Trucks here do not change hands quietly between operators, because there are not enough operators. They sit until somebody from outside comes and gets them, which is precisely the transaction this page exists to make straightforward.
Arizona weight law
One axle number, and the tolerance is already inside it
Whatever it hauled, it moved under a state figure written differently from most.
Arizona sets the single axle at 20,000 lb under A.R.S. § 28-1100, and the enforcement tolerance is included in that number rather than added on top of it. Alabama is the only other state on file that builds it in the same way — Georgia, Kentucky and Florida all publish a base and then allow something over it. So a driver who has worked one of those states and moved here can arrive expecting headroom this section does not give.
The gross limit is a different matter. It was not extracted from the section text when the rule file was compiled, so this page does not state one. An unverified ceiling is worse than no ceiling, and the section itself is where the answer is.
A.R.S. § 28-1100. Information, not legal advice, and only as current as the date the rule file was last verified.
Arizona paperwork
We need a title — unless it never had one
Beyond that, the paperwork is one sentence and then a set of fixes.
Everything after that sentence is a fix rather than a category. A lost title has a counter replacement. Where none exists there is a bonded route. Both are ordinary and neither stops a sale.
Arizona has no percentage threshold for salvage. A.R.S. § 28-2091 brands a vehicle salvage where it has been stolen, wrecked, destroyed, flood or water damaged, or otherwise damaged to the point that the owner, the leasing company, the lender or the insurer considers it uneconomical to repair. That is a judgement rather than an arithmetic test, and the wording sits closest to California’s. Four of the seven states on file work this way; Kentucky and Alabama use 75 per cent and Florida 80.
There is also a separate nonrepairable class, and A.R.S. § 28-2095 covers the restored salvage certificate — its inspection triggers were not extracted, so this page does not describe them.
A.R.S. § 28-2091, § 28-2095. Information, not legal advice.
What we buy here, and how it usually goes
Those rules land the same way on every body style, and so does the offer. We buy all of them.
Farm trucks and ranch trucks, flatbeds and stake beds, dump trucks and aggregate haulers, water trucks, day cabs and road tractors, service bodies, box trucks, rollbacks, and the crew pickups behind them. None of those is an Arivaca speciality — they are everywhere — and that is the point: which one you have does not change the offer.
On collection, the realistic answer here is that we buy it remotely and arrange the tow, and nobody needs to be standing in the yard. Coming out and driving it away is open, coming out and towing it is open, and driving it to us is open. But with one row on file at this town — the Fraguita Mill Site, 4 people, 0.7 miles from its directory record — the honest lead in Pima County is the option that does not depend on anybody making the trip.
We buy complete trucks. If the engine, transmission, doors, rear ends, drive shafts, wheels or anything under the hood have been removed, we can’t buy it. Small things — a missing bumper — are fine.
Straight answers
The questions we get asked in Arivaca
- 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 and out here it is rarely the issue.
- What is actually here?One row: the Fraguita Mill Site, gold ore, 4 employees, under GoodMark Capital Group Inc. Its directory record sits 0.7 miles from the node coordinate, which is about as clean a match as this survey produces.
- Why does that matter to me?Because it tells you the scale honestly. A four-person mill is not an industry that keeps a fleet turning, so there is no local buyer for a used truck and no reason for you to accept a poor deal from one.
- Will you come this far out?We will, and we also buy remotely and arrange the tow, which is how most deals at this distance go. Driving it to us stays open too.
- What is the axle limit?20,000 lb on a single axle under A.R.S. § 28-1100, with the enforcement tolerance already inside that number. Do not add anything to it.
- 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.
Why people call
Those are the mechanics. The reasons behind a call are more personal than that.
Retiring. A medical that did not go the way it used to. A contract that ended, or an outfit that has grown out of one truck and into another and needs the first one gone. The Fraguita Mill Site and its 4 employees are the whole of the recorded industry at this town, and 0.7 miles is the distance between the record and the ground — accurate, and very small.
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, in Arivaca and across Pima County.