Pinal County
Three pits, three rocks, and all of them on the doorstep
Three rows are filed here and what is unusual is how close they are. The marble operation, under Omya Inc, works crushed and broken marble with 28 employees, 1.19 miles from the middle of town. A granite pit carrying the town’s own name works with 14, at 2.23 miles. The Reymert Mine, under Gila Rock Products, works construction sand and gravel with 10.
Three different rocks — marble, granite, sand and gravel — inside a couple of miles of each other and of the town centre. Most places on this list have their industry somewhere over the horizon. Here it is at the end of the street, and 52 people work it.
The roads out are clear on the record. Inside ten miles of the marble operation the 2025 National Bridge Inventory records 32 structures and none is posted for load or coded below legal loads; inside ten miles of the granite pit it records 30 and the answer is the same. Two circles, two clean results, and in both cases the bridges are in the file rather than missing from it.
So the trip is short and the truck never gets warm
That closeness — 1.19 miles to one pit and 2.23 to another — is what makes a truck from here read oddly on paper.
A haul measured in single miles — 2.23 miles to the granite pit, less to the Reymert Mine side — means a great many cycles a day and very little of anything else. The engine barely reaches temperature before the truck is tipping again, which is hard on the cooling system and harder still on a diesel particulate filter, and the brakes and clutch do all the work while the driveline does almost none. Twenty loads a day at two miles a leg puts a working year on a truck and forty miles on the odometer.
So a truck out of these three Pinal County pits is very nearly the opposite of a highway truck: high hours, low miles, tired brakes, healthy driveline. We read it that way rather than docking it for a number that was never going to move, and we ask about the regeneration history because on this kind of work it matters more than the mileage does.
Arizona weight law
One axle number, and the tolerance is already inside it
Marble, granite or sand, it loads to 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 and service bodies behind them, day cabs and road tractors, flatbeds and stake beds, box trucks, rollbacks, and the crew pickups. Box trucks and straight trucks are not a Pinal County thing in particular — they are everywhere — and we buy those too.
Every way of doing this is ordinary here: 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. The Omya Inc marble operation at 28 employees, the granite pit at 14 and the Reymert Mine at 10 come to 52 people in total, so when a truck comes free there is no depth of local trade to take 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 Superior
- 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 close are the pits?Very. The Omya Inc marble operation is 1.19 miles from the middle of town and the granite pit 2.23. The Reymert Mine under Gila Rock Products is the third.
- My mileage is almost nothing.That is the shape of the work here rather than a problem. Short cycles put hours and brake wear on a truck without moving the odometer, so we read the hour meter, the brakes and the regeneration history instead.
- Are there posted bridges near the pits?None in either circle. The 2025 National Bridge Inventory records 32 structures within ten miles of the marble operation and 30 within ten miles of the granite pit, and not one of them is posted for load or coded below legal loads.
- 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 Omya Inc operation at 28 employees is the biggest thing on this record and the Reymert Mine at 10 the smallest, and at 52 people across three pits everybody here knows whose truck it is. That is exactly why it is awkward to sell locally.
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 Superior and across Pinal County.