Navajo County
Three pits, nineteen people, and a clean ten-mile circle
Three rows are filed here and all three are close. The Owens Pit under Perkins Cinders works crushed and broken stone with 9 employees, its coordinate 3.27 miles from the middle of town. Thunder Material Source under WW Clyde works sand and gravel with 4, and Western Materials Site #1 with 6. Nineteen people across three operators.
Two commodities and three separate businesses within a few miles of one town is a working local aggregate market rather than a single dominant employer, and that shape is unusual up here on the high ground.
The road is completely open. Inside ten miles of the Owens Pit the 2025 National Bridge Inventory records 19 structures, and not one of them is posted for load or coded below legal loads. Nineteen structures is a real count with a real zero against it, not an empty circle with nothing in the file to read.
So nothing limits the load, and the season limits everything else
Those 19 structures with no restriction on any of them mean the constraint here is not the road.
It is the weather. This is high country in Navajo County, and for the Owens Pit and the two sand operations beside it construction aggregate is a seasonal trade at altitude in a way it never is in the valley: the building year is shorter, the pits work hard in the warm months and very little in the cold ones, and three operators sharing a small market all feel the same weeks.
That leaves trucks that work in bursts. Hard use followed by months standing, repeated for years, which is a distinct condition from either steady fleet work or steady neglect. Brakes seize, seals dry out, batteries die, tyres flat-spot, and the engine is often the healthiest part of the whole thing. We ask how recently it last worked and how it was stored, because up here those two answers explain most of what we will find.
Arizona weight law
One axle number, and the tolerance is already inside it
Whatever those three pits loaded, it moved 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 pits, water trucks, flatbeds and stake beds, day cabs and road tractors, service bodies, box trucks, rollbacks, and the crew pickups. Box trucks and straight trucks are not a Navajo 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 19 people across Perkins Cinders, WW Clyde and Western Materials, and 19 structures of unrestricted road around the Owens Pit, the truck leaves easily — but three small competitors are not a local market for used equipment.
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 Show Low
- 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 an automatic disqualifier, though at this altitude it is worth a proper look.
- Are there restricted bridges?None. The 2025 National Bridge Inventory records 19 structures within ten miles of the Owens Pit and not one is posted for load or coded below legal loads.
- It only works half the year.That is the normal shape at this altitude. Seasonal work leaves seized brakes, dried seals and flat-spotted tyres rather than mechanical wear, and we check for exactly that.
- What is actually here?Three operations: the Owens Pit under Perkins Cinders with 9 employees, Thunder Material Source under WW Clyde with 4, and Western Materials Site #1 with 6.
- 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 season that did not come, or an outfit that has grown out of one truck and into another. Perkins Cinders at 9 employees, WW Clyde at 4 and Western Materials at 6 are the whole of the trade here, and three small competitors sharing one seasonal market in Navajo County have no appetite for each other’s equipment.
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 Show Low and across Navajo County.