Yuma County
One range, three names, two services
The node list files a single row at this town, and it is not an industry: Barry Goldwater Range, a Marine Corps entry whose coordinate sits 9.36 miles from the middle of Wellton Hills. That is the nearest incorporated centroid to it, which is how it came to be filed here at all.
The same range appears three times in the list under three spellings and two services. The Barry M Goldwater Air Force Range is filed at Ajo and the Barry M Goldwater Range at Gila Bend, both Air Force; this one is the Marine Corps row. One range of roughly 1.7 million acres, three rows, and a check keyed on the name would have matched none of them to each other.
What the row does not carry is its function, its acreage or its staffing. Those were not established when it was researched, and they are not asserted here. A row that tells you where something is does not tell you what comes out of it.
So this is a page about distance, not about a fleet
That gap in the record is worth being straight about, because it changes what we can honestly say to you.
On a town whose only entry is Barry Goldwater Range at 9.36 miles, there is no measured local fleet to describe. We are not going to invent one. What is on the record is the geography — a small place in Yuma County with a very large restricted range beside it, and the nearest anything a long way further on.
Distance is the fact that actually matters to a seller here, and it cuts one way: it is the reason a truck sits. Somewhere closer in, a truck that stops earning gets moved on inside a month. Out here it is easier to leave it where it is and keep paying the insurance, which is how three years go by. You know that better than we do.
Arizona weight law
One axle number, and the tolerance is already inside it
Whatever it was hauling before it stopped, 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. A driver who has run 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.
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 that, 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, and how it usually goes
Those rules land the same way on every body style, and so does the offer. We buy all of them.
Day cabs and road tractors, flatbeds and stake beds, dump trucks, water trucks, service bodies, box trucks, rollbacks, and the crew pickups behind them. None of that list is a Yuma County speciality — those trucks are everywhere — and that is the point: the offer does not depend on which one you have.
On collection, be realistic about where this is. The usual path out here is that we buy it remotely and arrange the tow, and no one needs to be standing in the yard for that to happen. We do come out and drive it away, and we do come out and tow it, and you are welcome to drive it to us if you are heading that way anyway. But 9.36 miles from Barry Goldwater Range with one row on file at the town, remote is the honest first answer rather than the fallback.
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 Wellton Hills
- 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, and in this part of Yuma County there is usually very little of it.
- Will you really come this far out?We do, but we would rather tell you the truthful version first: most deals out here are bought remotely with the tow arranged after, and that costs you nothing in the process. Coming out and driving it away is open, so is coming out and towing it, and so is you driving it to us.
- What is actually recorded at Wellton Hills?One row: Barry Goldwater Range, filed as a Marine Corps entry with its coordinate 9.36 miles from the middle of town. Its function, acreage and staffing were not established, so we do not state them.
- Why does the same range show up three times?Because it is written three ways. The Barry M Goldwater Air Force Range at Ajo and the Barry M Goldwater Range at Gila Bend are both Air Force rows; this is the Marine Corps one. Three rows, one range of roughly 1.7 million acres.
- 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. In a place whose whole entry in the record is Barry Goldwater Range 9.36 miles off, there is no yard down the road that absorbs a truck when it comes free — which is exactly why it ends up sitting.
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 Wellton Hills and across Yuma County.