Apache County
Sixteen bridges, one of them posted, and two people at the pit
One row is filed here: the Hall Pit under Perkins Cinders, working crushed and broken stone with 2 employees, its coordinate 5.63 miles from the middle of town.
The road around it needs both counts stated, because only one of them is a zero. Inside ten miles the 2025 National Bridge Inventory records 16 structures. None of them is coded below legal loads on item 70, so there is no commercial floor to report at all — but one of them IS posted for load on item 41.
Those are different findings and it matters which is which. Coded below legal loads means the rating itself sits under what a legal truck weighs. Posted for load means a sign went up. This node has a sign and no rating problem, and describing it as having nothing posted would be wrong.
So the load is fine and the route needs thinking about
That single posted structure among 16 is the only thing between the Hall Pit and open road.
With nothing coded below legal loads, a truck out of here can load to whatever the law allows. What it may not be able to do is take the shortest way with it. One posted crossing in a circle that only holds 16 structures is not something a driver can casually route around — at that density there are not many alternatives — so the route becomes a fixed habit rather than a daily decision.
The wear that produces is extra distance rather than extra strain: more miles for the same tonnage, on high open road in Apache County, with the driveline doing honest work. That is a comparatively kind life, and it means the odometer on a truck from here reads high relative to how hard it has actually been used. We take that into account rather than pricing the number on the dash.
Arizona weight law
One axle number, and the tolerance is already inside it
Loaded to the limit or not, it 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.
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 the pit, farm trucks and grain hauls off the surrounding country, flatbeds and stake beds, water trucks, day cabs and road tractors, service bodies, box trucks, rollbacks, and the crew pickups. Box trucks and straight trucks are not an Apache 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 2 employees at the Hall Pit 5.63 miles out being the entire recorded industry here, and 16 structures in the whole ten-mile circle, this is not a place with a queue of local buyers.
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 Springerville
- 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 look.
- Is anything posted around here?Yes, one structure of the 16 the 2025 National Bridge Inventory records within ten miles of the Hall Pit. None is coded below legal loads, so there is no commercial floor — but we are not going to tell you nothing is posted, because something is.
- Does that limit what I can carry?Not on the rating. It affects which way you go rather than how much you load, and with only 16 structures in the circle there are not many ways to go.
- My mileage looks high.Longer routes for the same tonnage will do that. We read a high odometer from up here against how the work is actually done rather than at face value.
- 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. The Hall Pit reports 2 employees 5.63 miles out and that is the whole of the recorded industry in this corner of Apache County; two people do not buy a spare truck, and there is nobody else here who might.
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 Springerville and across Apache County.