Gila County
A concentrator, not a mine, and the difference is the freight
One row is filed here: a concentrator working copper ore under Asarco, with 135 employees and a coordinate 0.89 miles from the middle of town. It sits inside the place rather than out in the hills, which on this list is unusual.
The name is doing real work. Its owner holds two rows in this district and they are named differently on purpose — Ray Mine is a mine and this one is a concentrator. One takes rock out of the ground; the other crushes, grinds and floats it into a concentrate. They are separate operations with separate freight, and treating them as one would misdescribe both.
The district around them is large. Across five rows under three owners inside about twenty-five miles it employs 1,706 people, with Pinto Valley carrying 728 and Ray Mine 630. This town sits 26.7 miles from the town at the middle of that ring.
So what arrives here is rock and what leaves is concentrate
That distinction between a mine and a concentrator is the whole of the trucking argument here.
A concentrator is a processing plant, so it has traffic in both directions and neither is ore in the ordinary sense. Rock comes in from the operations around it — Ray Mine at 630 employees among them — reagents and grinding media come in on tankers and flatbeds, and concentrate goes out — denser, wetter and heavier per cubic yard than anything that arrived. Trucks working a plant like this load to weight long before they load to volume.
That is hard on a very specific list: springs, axles, tyres and frames rather than engines. A body that looks half empty can be at its legal limit, and a driver who has spent years on that work knows it. So on a truck out of this part of Gila County, within 0.89 miles of a plant employing 135 people, we go over the frame and the running gear carefully, and we ask what it carried — because concentrate work and general tipper work leave different trucks behind.
Arizona weight law
One axle number, and the tolerance is already inside it
Rock in or concentrate out, 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.
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.
Haul trucks and rigid dumps, tandem and tri-axle dump trucks, tankers off the reagent side, flatbeds and curtain-siders, lowboys moving plant, day cabs and road tractors, water trucks, service bodies, box trucks, rollbacks, and the crew pickups. Box trucks and straight trucks are not a Gila County thing in particular — they are everywhere — and we buy those too.
All four 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 135 employees at the plant 0.89 miles from the middle of town and the nearest district centre 26.7 miles away, the contractors here cover a wide area and none of them is looking to buy somebody else’s 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 Hayden
- 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.
- Is the plant actually in town?Effectively yes. Its coordinate is 0.89 miles from the middle of the place, which on this list is close.
- What is the difference from Ray Mine?One digs, the other processes. Ray Mine is named a mine and this one a concentrator, both under the same owner, and they generate quite different freight. Ray Mine carries 630 employees; this plant 135.
- My truck was always loaded to weight, never to volume.That is concentrate work and we know it. We check springs, axles, tyres and the frame first, because that is where the wear goes when the body is heavy and half empty.
- 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 haulage contract that ended, which around a district of 1,706 people happens on a cycle. The plant here employs 135 and Ray Mine 630, and neither of them buys used equipment; the small firms that move rock and reagent between them do, and only when the work is going their way.
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 Hayden and across Gila County.