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

Two rows are filed here and they sit almost on the same spot. A copper operation under Gunnison Copper reports 42 employees with its coordinate 5.24 miles from the middle of town, and a sand and gravel pit under Texas Canyon Rock & Sand reports 3, at 5.56 miles. Three tenths of a mile apart, and two completely different businesses.

Forty-five people is the whole recorded workforce at this town, and the nearest city of any size is 54.5 miles away. That combination — a real copper operation, a tiny aggregate pit, and a long empty road to anywhere — is what this page has to work with, and it is enough.

One piece of freight is worth naming because it is specific to mining and it is not obvious. Off-highway haul-truck tyres are enormous, they are consumed steadily rather than occasionally, and they arrive on specialised flatbed and lowboy. That is a standing trucking requirement that has nothing to do with moving ore.

That tyre traffic is a good example of the shape of work around a 42-employee operation.

Gunnison Copper at 42 employees does not run its own heavy-haul fleet. It hires one when it needs plant moved, tyres delivered or a component swapped, which means the lowboys and heavy flatbeds serving it belong to small contractors covering a very wide area — 54.5 miles to the nearest city is a normal leg rather than a long one.

Those tractors do real highway miles between jobs and then work extremely hard for short periods. The trailer usually outlasts two tractors, and the tractor is what gets sold. So on a truck from this part of Cochise County we look at the frame, the fifth wheel, the suspension and the transmission, and we ask what it pulled — because a lowboy tractor at a given mileage has had a much harder life than a fleet day cab at the same reading.

Ore, aggregate or a set of tyres, it moves 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.

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.

Those rules land the same way on every body style, and so does the offer. We buy all of them.

Lowboys and heavy haulers and the tractors that pull them, flatbeds and stake beds, tandem and tri-axle dump trucks and aggregate haulers, day cabs and road tractors, water trucks, service bodies, box trucks, rollbacks, and the crew pickups. Box trucks and straight trucks are not a Cochise County thing in particular — they are everywhere — and we buy those too.

All four ways are open and the distance is worth naming. 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; at 54.5 miles from the nearest city, buying it remotely and arranging the tow is an ordinary outcome. With Gunnison Copper at 42 employees and the pit beside it at 3, there is no local depth to absorb a truck.

• 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.
• Do you buy lowboys and heavy haulers?Yes, tractors and trailers both. Around a mine the standing work is plant movement and tyre delivery — off-highway haul-truck tyres are enormous and come in on specialised flatbed and lowboy — so those are common here.
• What is actually recorded at Dragoon?Two rows: a copper operation under Gunnison Copper at 42 employees and 5.24 miles out, and a sand and gravel pit under Texas Canyon Rock & Sand at 3 employees and 5.56 miles out.
• My tractor has been worked hard.Heavy-haul tractors are, and we expect it rather than penalising it blindly. We look at the frame, the fifth wheel, the suspension and the box, and we ask what it pulled.
• 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.

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. Between Gunnison Copper at 42 employees and Texas Canyon Rock at 3, and 54.5 miles to the nearest city, there is no second buyer here — the market for a used heavy tractor in this county is somebody driving out to get it.

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 Dragoon and across Cochise County.