Mohave County
A circle that crosses a state line, and why that changed the answer
One row is filed at this place: a crushing operation with 3 employees, filed to Mohave County, whose coordinate sits 27.66 miles from the middle of the place and about a mile from the Colorado River. Its registration names a different settlement again.
The coordinate is the interesting part, because it falls in Clark County, Nevada. That makes its ten-mile circle a two-state question, and the difference is not academic. The state bridge file for this state records zero structures within ten miles of it. The Nevada file records six. Read against one file the node returns an empty circle and the honest sentence would have been “no structure of any kind lies within ten miles” — which is false.
Computed from both files the union is 6 structures, of which none is posted for load and none is coded below legal loads. That is a clean zero on a real count, which is a different fact from an empty circle and it is the true one. A circle drawn a mile from a state line is a two-file question, and this page states the answer that way.
So the river is the fact that shapes everything here
That state line, and the 6 structures split across two files, are both really the same fact: this is river country and the river is a border.
For a truck that has two consequences. The first is jurisdictional — the weight rules below are this state’s and they stop at the water; Nevada is its own jurisdiction with its own figures and this page is not going to guess at them. The second is practical: a crossing is a fixed point, so routes here are decided by where the bridges are rather than by where the destination is.
The trucks themselves live a low-desert life at 27.66 miles from anywhere, which means long legs, high heat and a great deal of standing between jobs. Hoses, belts, seals, batteries and cooling stacks go first; the metal lasts extremely well. That is the list we work through on anything from this corner of Mohave County, in that order.
Arizona weight law
One axle number, and the tolerance is already inside it
That jurisdictional line matters, because on this side of it a load 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.
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, 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 Mohave County speciality — they are everywhere — and that is the point: which one you have does not change the offer.
On collection, the realistic answer at this distance is that we buy it remotely and arrange the tow, and nobody has to be standing about for it. Coming out and driving it away is open, coming out and towing it is open, and driving it to us is open. But with one row on file carrying 3 employees, a coordinate 27.66 miles from the middle of the place and a state line a mile away, we would rather lead with the option that does not depend on a trip.
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 Katherine
- 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 and out here it is rarely the issue.
- Are there restricted crossings nearby?Not on the combined count. Taking both state bridge files together there are 6 structures within ten miles, and none is posted for load or coded below legal loads. Reading only one file would have said there were none at all, which would have been wrong.
- Does the axle limit apply across the river?No. The figure below is this state’s and it stops at the water. Nevada is a separate jurisdiction and this page does not state its numbers.
- Will you come out this far?We do, and we also buy remotely and arrange the tow, which is how most deals at 27.66 miles from anywhere go. Driving it to us stays open too.
- 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. With 3 employees on the only row filed here, its coordinate 27.66 miles out and across a state line, and 6 structures in the whole ten-mile circle, there is nothing in this part of Mohave County that quietly buys a used truck.
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 Katherine and across Mohave County.