Coconino County
The one row here is a recreation annex, and nothing follows from it
A single row is filed at this place and it is worth being blunt about what it is: Fort Tuthill Recreation Annex, an Air Force entry 3.25 miles from the middle of town. It is the seventh recreation area to appear under the military-installation heading in the survey these rows come from.
Nothing about freight follows from a recreation annex. It is not a plant, a pit, a yard or a base with a mission attached; its function, acreage and staffing were all left unestablished, and the survey’s own note against it says plainly that no freight conclusion follows.
So this page has one honest option, which is to say that and move on to what is actually true about selling a truck here. Padding a page with an industry that is not on the record would be the easy thing to do and it would be a lie by implication.
So what is real here is the high country and the winter in it
That absence — one recreation row 3.25 miles out and no industry at all — leaves the geography, and the geography here is genuine.
This is high ground in Coconino County, and the county around it is the one that maintains 39 bridges and posts none of them for load. So nothing structural restricts a truck here either. What restricts it is altitude and season: cold starts, snow, sanded and salted road surfaces in winter, and long climbs in both directions.
That combination is the one genuine threat to a truck in this state. Almost everywhere else on this list the metal survives beautifully because the air is dry; up here it does not entirely, and the underside, the brake hardware and the electrical connections are where it shows. So we ask about winters spent up here specifically, and a truck that has spent them garaged is worth telling us about.
Arizona weight law
One axle number, and the tolerance is already inside it
Whatever it did up here, 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
Those rules land the same way on every body style, and so does the offer. We buy all of them.
Day cabs and road tractors, flatbeds and stake beds, dump trucks and aggregate haulers, water trucks, service bodies, box trucks, rollbacks, and the crew pickups behind them. 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.
All four ways are open and this is not a hard place to reach: 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. Just do not expect a local buyer — the only row on this town’s record is Fort Tuthill Recreation Annex, 3.25 miles out, with no employment recorded against it at all.
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 Kachina Village
- 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 an automatic disqualifier, though up here it is worth a proper look.
- Is there industry at Kachina Village?Not on this record. One row is filed here, Fort Tuthill Recreation Annex at 3.25 miles, and nothing about freight follows from it. We would rather say that than invent a local fleet.
- Does the county post its bridges?No. Coconino County maintains 39 bridges and posts none of them for load, so nothing structural limits a truck here.
- Mine has done winters up here.Then tell us. High country is the one place in this state where the underside, the brake hardware and the electrics genuinely suffer, and it is worth checking properly rather than guessing.
- 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 business wound down, or a job finished that leaves a truck standing through a winter it did not need to sit through. With Fort Tuthill Recreation Annex 3.25 miles away being the whole of the record and Coconino County posting none of its 39 bridges, there is no industry here to take a truck and no reason it cannot leave.
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 Kachina Village and across Coconino County.