Sell your semi truck for cash in Morenci the easy and convenient way

Three rows are filed here and one of them dominates everything. A copper operation under Freeport-McMoRan carries 5,870 employees — the largest single node by employment in the survey these rows come from, more than three times the next largest, and more than the entire copper district a hundred miles west put together. The other two are small crushing plants under Swapp Construction, reporting 4 and 5 employees, at the same coordinate.

The town and the operation are not two things. This is a company town in the strict sense: the settlement and the mine occupy the same ground, which is unusual even among mining places. Compare the operation 26.8 miles away that adds another 1,071 employees — that one sits 8.4 miles from its own town, with normal separation between the two.

What that means for anybody reading this page is worth being direct about. Almost everything here is one employer. There is no second industry, no separate commercial district, and no independent used-equipment market at all.

Where 5,870 people work for one operation and the next largest thing on the record is Swapp Construction with 5 employees, the trucks that are not the operation’s belong to contractors — and they are the entire rest of the economy.

An operation on that scale buys in continuously: earthworks, structural steel, maintenance, fuel and water, and the plant movement that keeps a pit running. One item in particular is a standing requirement rather than an occasional one — off-highway haul-truck tyres are enormous, are consumed steadily, and arrive on specialised flatbed and lowboy. That is a permanent trucking need attached to the mine, not to the market.

The trucks doing it work hard and travel far, because Greenlee County is not somewhere a supplier is based by accident. Highway miles between jobs, brutal short work on site, and a fleet that is usually replaced on contract cycles rather than on failure. We read those trucks as fleet equipment: check the records, check the frame and the fifth wheel, and expect the driveline to be sound.

Every one of those loads 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.

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.

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, lowboys and heavy haulers, tankers, tandem and tri-axle dump trucks, flatbeds and stake beds, day cabs and road tractors, water trucks, service bodies, box trucks, rollbacks, and the crew pickups. Box trucks and straight trucks are not a Greenlee 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. And if a contract has ended and there are several trucks rather than one, say so at the start — around an operation of 5,870 people in a Greenlee County with 1,071 more employees 26.8 miles away, that happens, and it changes the collection plan rather than the offer on each truck.

• 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.
• How big is the operation?5,870 employees on the node row, which is the largest single node by employment in the survey these rows come from — more than three times the next largest. The two crushing plants filed here add 4 and 5.
• Do you buy lowboys and heavy haulers?Yes, tractors and trailers both. Tyre delivery and plant movement are standing work around a pit this size, and those trailers are common here.
• Can you take a yard’s worth?Yes. Around a single employer of this scale a contract ending puts several trucks up at once. Give us the list at the start; it changes collection, not the offer per truck.
• 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.

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 — and in a company town of 5,870 employees, that is the whole story, because there is no second customer to move the trucks onto. The two small plants filed here carry 4 and 5 employees between them, which is the size of everything that is not the mine.

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 Morenci and across Greenlee County.