Pinal County
A mine of 630 people, on a county line the record argues about
One row is filed at this town: Ray Mine, working copper ore under Asarco with 630 employees, its coordinate 9.55 miles from the middle of the place. Its registration spells the town differently again, which is a reminder that a registration is a form somebody typed rather than a map reference.
The county on that row disagrees with its own coordinate. The row says Gila County; the coordinate falls in Pinal, and the central cross-check flagged it for exactly that. The explanation is not a mistake so much as a boundary: Ray Mine sits on the Gila–Pinal line, so which county it is in depends on which end of the property you stand at. This page follows the coordinate, which agrees with the county of record for this town.
Around it, the district is large. Five rows under three owners inside about twenty-five miles employ 1,706 people between them, Ray Mine carrying 630 of them and Pinto Valley 728. Kearny sits 19.0 miles from the town at the middle of that ring.
So a truck here works across a boundary all day
That county line running through Ray Mine is not a curiosity for a haulier; it is a working condition.
Weight rules in this state are set at state level, so nothing changes as a truck crosses from Pinal into Gila. What does change is who maintains the road, who issues a local permit and who has to be talked to about a haul route. A contractor working a property that sits on the line deals with both, and does it every week rather than occasionally.
The trucks doing it are district trucks rather than site trucks: real road miles between the operations in that twenty-five-mile ring, then heavy short work once they arrive. So on anything from around Ray Mine we read the odometer as honest, check the frame and suspension for the site half of its life, and ask which of the operations it mostly served — because 630 employees in one place and 728 at another produce quite different work patterns.
Arizona weight law
One axle number, and the tolerance is already inside it
Either side of that line, a load runs under the same state figure — and it is 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, tankers off the reagent side, lowboys and heavy haulers moving plant, tandem and tri-axle dump trucks, flatbeds and curtain-siders, day cabs and road tractors, water trucks, service bodies, box trucks, rollbacks, and the crew pickups. Box trucks and straight trucks are not a Pinal County thing in particular — they are everywhere — and we buy those too.
All four ways are open: 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. Ray Mine at 630 employees runs its own fleet inside the fence and does not buy used trucks, and at 9.55 miles out with the district centre 19.0 miles further, there is nobody else nearby who does.
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 Kearny
- 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.
- Which county is the mine in?The row says Gila and its coordinate falls in Pinal, and the cross-check flagged it. Ray Mine sits on the boundary, so both readings have something behind them; we follow the coordinate.
- Does that change the weight rules?No. They are set at state level and do not change at a county line. What changes is who maintains the road and who you talk to about a haul route.
- My truck ran between sites all day.Then the miles are real and we read them straight. We check the frame and suspension for the on-site half of the work and ask which operations it served.
- 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, which around a district of 1,706 people is the ordinary rhythm. Ray Mine employs 630 and Pinto Valley 728, and neither buys second-hand equipment; the contractors between them do, and only while the work is coming.
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 Kearny and across Pinal County.