Pinal County
Three pits on the list, and the nearest one is 28 miles off
Three rows carry this town’s name and all three were filed by the address on a registration rather than by a position. A granite operation under Red Mountain Mining reports 7 employees with its coordinate 28.14 miles from the middle of town; a sand and gravel plant under Arizona Materials reports 14; a third under Fort McDowell Yavapai Materials reports 6.
The town this page is about is in Pinal County. The granite row’s own county field reads Maricopa, which is the county it shares a name with and not the county it is in. That is a very easy thing to read wrongly, so it is worth saying slowly: the place and the county are two different things here, and the pit belongs to the second.
The road around that pit’s real coordinate is well documented. Inside ten miles the 2025 National Bridge Inventory records 442 structures, of which 4 are posted for load and 1 is coded below legal loads. The one that sets the floor is record 07940, carrying Main St - Old 60, 4.13 miles out and rated 33.6 metric tonnes, about 37.0 US tons — and it is city-maintained rather than county or state.
So one city bridge decides the load, and it decides it generously
That single restricted crossing at 33.6 metric tonnes, 4.13 miles out, is the only structural limit among 442 structures, and it is worth converting into something usable.
Item 64 records the gross weight of the rating vehicle, so 33.6 tonnes is the whole truck rather than the payload. Take off the roughly 11.0 tonnes an empty tandem dump weighs and about 22.6 tonnes of stone crosses. Read in bands: below 11.0 metric tonnes nothing commercial crosses even empty, between 11.0 and 36.3 the crossing takes a truck only part loaded, and at or above 36.3 a legal load goes over whole. At 33.6 it sits near the top of the middle band, which is a good deal more generous than most restricted crossings on this list.
For a truck that means very little forced part-loading, and the wear pattern is the ordinary metro aggregate one: short loaded legs, empty returns, brakes and tipping gear worn out, driveline barely touched. So we read a low odometer on a truck from around here as expected rather than as a bargain, and in Pinal County we look at the body and the running gear first.
Arizona weight law
One axle number, and the tolerance is already inside it
Whatever crosses that bridge does so 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.
Tandem and tri-axle dump trucks and aggregate haulers, mixers and water trucks, day cabs and road tractors, flatbeds and stake beds, 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.
Every way of doing this is straightforward 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. And do not assume the three rows carrying this town’s name are local buyers — the Red Mountain Mining granite row alone is 28.14 miles away with 7 employees on it, and all three were filed by address rather than by position.
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 Maricopa
- 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 town in Maricopa County?No — it is in Pinal County. The county of the same name is next door, and one of the rows filed here carries it. The two are easy to confuse and we would rather be explicit.
- Which bridge limits a load?Record 07940, carrying Main St - Old 60, 4.13 miles from the granite pit’s coordinate, rated 33.6 metric tonnes and city-maintained. It is the only structure coded below legal loads in a circle of 442.
- How much can cross it?About 22.6 tonnes of stone over an 11.0-tonne empty tandem, since the rating covers the whole vehicle rather than the payload. That is generous by the standards of a restricted crossing.
- 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 7 employees on the granite row 28.14 miles away and 14 and 6 on the two sand rows, none of which was filed here by position, there is no employer in Pinal County who is going to take a truck off anyone as a favour.
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 Maricopa and across Pinal County.