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

A single row is filed at this town: the Sierrita copper operation under Freeport-McMoRan, carrying 1,074 employees. That is the largest single workforce attached to any one town on this state’s list, and there is nothing else here at all.

It is one of three operations ringing the metropolitan county to the north. Sierrita has 1,074, the Mission row 447 and Silver Bell Mining 182 — 1,703 between them, almost exactly the total of the whole copper district a hundred-odd miles away, packed into one metropolitan county. Sierrita sits 25.1 miles out from that city, further than either of the other two.

Where the copper goes afterwards is a fact worth having. The city to the north is a port-adjacent inland market: concentrate moving to smelters, or south to Guaymas and the Gulf of California, passes through it. This is not a district whose output stops at the state line.

An operation of 1,074 people changes the shape of everything around it, including who owns the trucks.

At 1,074 employees and 25.1 miles out from the nearest city, the contractors are not one-truck outfits. They are firms with a yard, several tractors, a lowboy or two, tankers, water trucks and a mechanic, because an operation that big buys services by contract rather than by the job. That is a different kind of seller from most of this list — somebody replacing three trucks rather than parting with their only one.

It is also a different kind of truck. Fleet-maintained, serviced on schedule, with records, and usually retired on age or contract rather than on failure. Those are the easiest trucks in Pima County to deal with and the ones where a straight conversation goes fastest, because the seller already knows exactly what they have got — and there are more of them here than around the Mission row at 447 or Silver Bell Mining at 182.

Everything that moves for Sierrita runs 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.

Haul trucks and rigid dumps, lowboys and heavy haulers, tankers off the reagent side, water trucks and service bodies off the mine roads, day cabs and road tractors, flatbeds and stake beds, box trucks, rollbacks, and the crew pickups. Box trucks and straight trucks are not a Pima County thing in particular — they are everywhere — and we buy those too.

All four ways are straightforward at 25.1 miles from a city: 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. And with 1,074 employees at Sierrita, multiple trucks at once is a normal conversation here — tell us the list at the start and it changes the collection plan, not the offer on each.

• 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.
• How big is Sierrita?1,074 employees, which is the largest single workforce attached to any one town on this state’s list. With the Mission row at 447 and Silver Bell Mining at 182, the three come to 1,703.
• I have fleet records for it.Good — bring them. A serviced, documented truck is quicker to deal with and the conversation is shorter, which is most of what people want from this.
• Can you take several at once?Yes. Around an operation of this size that is the usual shape. Give us the list up front; it changes how we plan collection rather than what we offer per truck.
• 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 a fleet renewal that leaves three good trucks with nowhere to go. Around 1,074 employees at Sierrita the contracting firms are substantial, and when one loses a renewal it is not a single truck that stops — 25.1 miles from the nearest city, there is nobody local with the appetite to take a yard’s worth.

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 Green Valley and across Pima County.