Mohave County
Two hundred and four people at a mine that is not listed as active
Five rows are filed at this town and one of them dwarfs the rest. Mineral Park, under Origin Mining Company, carries a copper commodity and 204 employees, and its coordinate sits 12.3 miles from the middle of town. The other four are aggregate: the Cedar Hills Site under C.S. McCrossan works crushed and broken granite with 16 employees, and three sand and gravel pits report 2, 5 and 5.
Mineral Park comes with a caveat. Checked against the state’s directory of active mines it does not appear as an active operation at all, and its nearest directory record is 1.6 miles away and is something else entirely — a turquoise working, gemstones rather than copper. So the 204-employee figure is what the node record carries, and whether that workforce is on site today is not something this page can tell you.
The road, by contrast, is clean and measured. Inside ten miles of the Cedar Hills Site the 2025 National Bridge Inventory records 41 structures and not one of them is posted for load or coded below legal loads. That is a real zero: the bridges are in the file and none carries a restriction.
So nothing here forces a light load, but everything makes it a long one
Those 41 unrestricted structures around the Cedar Hills Site remove one problem and leave the bigger one untouched.
A truck out of here loads to whatever the law allows and takes it out whole. What it cannot do is do it quickly, because the distances are the real constraint: 12.3 miles just to reach Mineral Park, and the copper operation at Bagdad, which reports 1,386 people, is 64.8 miles from Kingman and 95.6 from Flagstaff. That is a full day out and back before anything is unloaded.
So the wear here is highway wear on a truck that never sees a highway rate: full loads, long open runs, high heat, and steady hours. The driveline and the cooling system do the work and the odometer tells something close to the truth, which is a different reading from a town truck and we treat it as one.
Arizona weight law
One axle number, and the tolerance is already inside it
Those full loads run 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 on a run of this length it is exactly the number nobody should be guessing at.
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.
Tandem and tri-axle dump trucks and aggregate haulers off the granite and sand runs, day cabs and road tractors off the long legs, sleepers off the longer ones, water trucks, service bodies, flatbeds and stake beds, box trucks, rollbacks, and the crew pickups behind all of it. Box trucks and straight trucks are not a Mohave County thing in particular — they are everywhere — and we buy those too.
Every way of doing this works from here: 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. The three sand pits filed at this town report 12 employees between them and the Cedar Hills Site 16, so outside Mineral Park the trade here is small operators, and a truck coming free does not have a local buyer lined up behind it.
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 Kingman
- 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 there is usually less of it.
- Is Mineral Park still working?We do not know and we will not guess. The node record carries 204 employees, but the state’s directory of active mines does not list it, and the nearest directory record is 1.6 miles away and is a turquoise working rather than copper.
- Are there restricted bridges near the pits?None inside ten miles of the Cedar Hills Site. The 2025 National Bridge Inventory records 41 structures in that circle and not one is posted for load or coded below legal loads.
- My truck ran long hauls every day.That is the normal shape here. Mineral Park is 12.3 miles out and the copper operation at Bagdad, with 1,386 employees, is 64.8 miles away — so the miles are real and the driveline earned them. We read the odometer straight on a truck from here.
- 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. The three sand pits at this town report 2, 5 and 5 employees, and the Cedar Hills Site 16 — those are the businesses where one truck going quiet is the whole problem, not Mineral Park with its 204 and not Bagdad with 1,386.
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 Kingman and across Mohave County.