Pima County
Two pits, twenty-six people, and two posted bridges
Two industrial rows are filed at this town, and they are the same trade twice over. Santa Rita Plan runs crushed and broken limestone under Cimbar Resources with 17 employees on the books; the other is a sand and gravel plant reporting 9. Twenty-six people between them, both hauling stone.
The road under that stone is where this town parts company with most of the state. Inside ten miles of Santa Rita Plan the 2025 National Bridge Inventory records 34 structures. None of them is coded below legal loads — there is no commercial floor to report — but 2 of them are posted for load. Both counts are true at once and the page states both, because a bridge posted for load is still a bridge you have to think about.
That distinction is worth spelling out. Being coded below legal loads means the rating itself sits under what a legal truck weighs. Being posted for load means a sign went up. Of the nine nodes measured with this one, this is the only circle that comes back posted but not below-legal, and the limestone plant sits 11.48 miles from the middle of town.
So the route matters more here than the load does
Those 2 posted structures are the reason a driver out of Santa Rita Plan pays attention to which way they leave.
Where nothing is posted, the shortest way is the way. Where something is, the truck learns a route and keeps it, and 34 structures in a ten-mile circle is not many to choose between. That is not a restriction on what a truck can carry — nothing in that circle is rated below a legal load — it is a restriction on which line it takes to get out with it.
The wear that produces is steady rather than dramatic: more miles than the crow-flies distance suggests, more time at low speed, more brake work on the same grades every day. It shows up in a truck that has an honest odometer and tired running gear, which is the opposite of how a highway tractor ages. Ask us about the hour meter before the mileage, because in Pima County that is the number that tells the story.
Arizona weight law
One axle number, and the tolerance is already inside it
Both of those pits load to a state figure that 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.
Flood and water damage are named inside the definition itself, which is not true of every state on file. 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 stone run, mixers and water trucks behind them, 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 Pima County thing in particular — they are everywhere — and we buy those too.
This is close enough in that every way of doing it is ordinary: 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. Between Santa Rita Plan and the sand and gravel plant beside it there are 26 employees on file at this town, so a truck coming free does not have a queue of local buyers waiting for 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 Sahuarita
- 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.
- Are there weight-restricted bridges around here?Two structures inside ten miles of Santa Rita Plan are posted for load, out of 34 the 2025 National Bridge Inventory records in that circle. None is coded below legal loads. So the load is not the problem; the route can be.
- My truck only ever ran the pit road.That is the normal shape here with two stone rows and 26 employees between them. Short-haul work puts wear into brakes, cooling and suspension rather than the driveline, so we look at those and at the hour meter before the odometer.
- How far out is the plant, really?Santa Rita Plan sits 11.48 miles from the middle of town, straight-line to the place centroid rather than a drive. It is filed here because that is the town on its registration.
- 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. Cimbar Resources reports 17 employees at Santa Rita Plan and the sand and gravel plant 9, and outfits that size do not turn equipment over in lots.
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 Sahuarita and across Pima County.