Yavapai County
Three small quarries, three different stones
Three rows are filed here and all three are genuinely close. A crushing operation under Rock Pros USA reports 6 employees with its coordinate 1.91 miles from the middle of town; an onyx operation under Stoneworld reports 5; and a schist quarry under Just Stone reports 3. Fourteen people, three operators, three different rocks.
That is an unusual mix. Most towns on this list carry one commodity worked by one or two outfits; here there are three separate small businesses each cutting something different, which says more about the geology than about the economy.
The road out is where the constraint is. Inside ten miles the 2025 National Bridge Inventory records 35 structures, of which 1 is posted for load and 1 is coded below legal loads. That one is record 08252, carrying Main Street, 2.77 miles out and rated 29.9 metric tonnes, about 33.0 US tons — and it is county-maintained.
So the tightest crossing on this page is 29.9 tonnes, and it is on Main Street
That rating of 29.9 metric tonnes is the number that decides how much leaves, and where it sits makes it worse than it sounds.
Item 64 records the gross weight of the rating vehicle, so 29.9 tonnes is the whole truck. Take off the roughly 11.0 tonnes an empty tandem dump weighs and about 18.9 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 29.9 this one sits squarely in the middle band.
And it carries Main Street 2.77 miles from the middle of town, which means it is not a crossing anyone can quietly route around. Three quarries within two miles of each other, one restricted structure between them and the road, and the practical answer is more trips with lighter loads. That puts hours, brake wear and clutch wear on a truck while the odometer stays small, and it is why we ask about the hour meter here before anything else.
Arizona weight law
One axle number, and the tolerance is already inside it
Whatever those three quarries cut, it moves 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 off all three quarries, flatbeds and stake beds carrying cut and dimension stone, water trucks, day cabs and road tractors, service bodies, box trucks, rollbacks, and the crew pickups. Box trucks and straight trucks are not a Yavapai 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. With 14 people across three separate small operators — Rock Pros USA, Stoneworld and Just Stone — nobody here has the depth to take on a truck they did not plan to buy.
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 Mayer
- 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 crossing is the tight one?Record 08252, carrying Main Street, county-maintained, rated 29.9 metric tonnes and 2.77 miles out. It is the only structure coded below legal loads among 35 within ten miles.
- What can I actually get across it?About 18.9 tonnes of stone, since the 29.9-tonne rating covers the whole vehicle and an empty tandem dump is roughly 11.0 tonnes on its own.
- My hours are high for the mileage.Expected here. Part-loading means more trips for the same tonnage, so the hours, brakes and clutch go first while the odometer stays low. We read it that way rather than as neglect.
- 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. Rock Pros USA at 6 employees, Stoneworld at 5 and Just Stone at 3 are family-sized businesses, and in a place where one county bridge rated 29.9 metric tonnes shapes every load out of Yavapai County, nobody is buying a spare truck against a rainy day.
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 Mayer and across Yavapai County.