Yavapai County
Which county this row is in changes the answer completely
One row is filed at this town: a crushed-stone quarry under Dunbar Stone Company Inc, working with 3 employees, its coordinate 0.66 miles from the middle of the place. That is about as close as a working pit gets to a town on this record.
The county on that row is where it gets interesting. The row is filed to Coconino County, and the federal block lookup puts its coordinate in Yavapai County. Those two are not interchangeable as road authorities. Coconino maintains 39 bridges and posts none of them at all. Yavapai maintains 154 and posts 13 — the highest count and the highest rate among the counties measured in that survey.
So the same row, read one way, sits in a county that restricts nothing, and read the other way sits in the most restrictive county in the batch. This page goes with the coordinate, which is what the survey publishes, and names the filed county alongside it rather than quietly picking one.
So there is exactly one crossing that matters, and it is 33.6 tonnes
Beyond the county argument there is a measured answer, and it is a single bridge.
Inside ten miles of the quarry the 2025 National Bridge Inventory records 33 structures. One is posted for load and one is coded below legal loads, and it is county-maintained: record 08218, carrying Crookton Rd, 6.31 miles out and rated 33.6 metric tonnes, about 37.0 US tons. Item 64 records the gross weight of the rating vehicle, so that is the whole truck rather than the payload — take off the roughly 11.0 tonnes an empty tandem dump weighs and about 22.6 tonnes of stone crosses.
Read in bands: under 11.0 metric tonnes nothing commercial crosses even empty, between 11.0 and 36.3 the crossing takes a truck only part loaded, and at or above 36.3 a legal load goes over whole. At 33.6 this one sits just under the top band, which is the frustrating place for it to be. And read it as a floor on what is known rather than on what exists — at 64.1% of the nodes measured this way a tighter crossing turns up between ten miles and twenty.
Arizona weight law
One axle number, and the tolerance is already inside it
That crossing sits 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 the weight rules, 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
Those rules land the same way on every body style, and so does the offer. We buy all of them.
Tandem and tri-axle dump trucks and aggregate haulers off the quarry, flatbeds and stake beds carrying dressed stone, day cabs and road tractors, water trucks, service bodies, box trucks, rollbacks, and the crew pickups. Box trucks and straight trucks are not a Yavapai County thing in particular — they are everywhere — and we buy those too.
All the usual ways work: we come to you and drive it away, we come to you and tow it, we buy it remotely and arrange the tow, or you drive it to us. With one row on file under Dunbar Stone Company Inc and 3 employees on it, 0.66 miles from the middle of town, this is not a place with a local trade waiting to take a truck.
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 Ash Fork
- 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.
- Which bridge is the one that matters?Record 08218, carrying Crookton Rd, county-maintained, rated 33.6 metric tonnes and 6.31 miles from the quarry. It is the only structure coded below legal loads in the 33 recorded inside ten miles.
- Why do two counties get mentioned?Because the row is filed to Coconino County while its coordinate falls in Yavapai. Coconino maintains 39 bridges and posts none; Yavapai maintains 154 and posts 13. We publish what the coordinate says and name the filed county beside it.
- My truck ran part loaded a lot.At 33.6 tonnes on the rating vehicle that is roughly 22.6 tonnes of stone across, so yes. More trips for the same tonnage means we look at the brakes, the clutch and the hour meter before the odometer.
- 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 quarry 0.66 miles from the middle of town reports 3 employees to Dunbar Stone Company Inc’s name, and that is the entire recorded industry here — an operation that size does not buy a second-hand truck when one comes free, it is usually the one selling.
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 Ash Fork and across Yavapai County.