Coconino County
Two people, one wash plant, six bridges
One row is filed here and it is small: a wash plant under Interstate Rock Products Inc, working crushed and broken stone with 2 employees, 1.25 miles from the middle of town.
Two people is the entire recorded industry of this place, and it is close enough to walk to. That combination — genuinely local, and genuinely tiny — is rarer on this list than either half of it alone.
The road around it is nearly as sparse. Inside ten miles the 2025 National Bridge Inventory records 6 structures, and not one of them is posted for load or coded below legal loads. Six bridges is a very small number for a ten-mile circle; it is a real count rather than an empty one, and none of them restricts anything.
So the isolation here is the whole commercial fact
Those two things together — 2 employees and 6 structures in ten miles — describe a place a long way from everywhere.
This is the far northern edge of Coconino County, and the practical consequence for anybody with equipment is that ordinary services are a long drive. A specialist repair, a part that has to be fetched, a buyer coming to look: each of those is most of a day rather than an errand. That is what raises the cost of keeping a truck that is not earning, and it is why they sit.
What it does to the trucks themselves is kinder. Long open runs at steady speed, few cold starts, no stop-start, and dry air on everything. A truck from up here is usually mechanically better than it looks and worse on paint and rubber than a photograph suggests, and we read it that way rather than the other way round.
Arizona weight law
One axle number, and the tolerance is already inside it
Whatever the wash plant loaded, 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 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, 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.
Tandem and tri-axle dump trucks and aggregate haulers, farm trucks and grain hauls, flatbeds and stake beds, water trucks, day cabs and road tractors, service bodies, box trucks, rollbacks, and the crew pickups. None of those is a Coconino County speciality — they are everywhere — and that is the point: which one you have does not change the offer.
On collection, be realistic about the distance. The usual path this far out is that we buy it remotely and arrange the tow, and nobody needs to stand about for it. We do come out and drive it away, we do come out and tow it, and driving it to us stays open. But with 2 employees at the wash plant 1.25 miles from the middle of town and nothing else on the record, we are not going to pretend somebody is passing.
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 Fredonia
- 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.
- Will you come this far north?We do, 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.
- Are there weight-restricted bridges?None inside ten miles. The 2025 National Bridge Inventory records 6 structures in that circle and not one is posted for load or coded below legal loads — a real count, not an empty one.
- Mine has been standing a while.Understandable up here, where getting anything fixed is a day out. Standing has its own short list — seals, tyres, batteries, brakes — and dry air is far kinder to the metal than damp is.
- 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. Where the whole recorded industry is a wash plant with 2 employees, 1.25 miles out, and the ten-mile circle holds 6 structures, there is nobody in Coconino County waiting to take a truck off anyone.
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 Fredonia and across Coconino County.