Coconino County
Two people, and 51 structures with nothing on any of them
One row is filed here: a cinder pit under L.P.’s Cinder Pitt, working crushed and broken stone with 2 employees, its coordinate 1.82 miles from the middle of town. Genuinely local, and genuinely small.
The road is the substantial part. Inside ten miles the 2025 National Bridge Inventory records 51 structures, and not one of them is posted for load or coded below legal loads. Fifty-one is a serious count for a ten-mile circle — this is not empty country where the file has nothing to say — and every one of them is unrestricted.
That matters more here than it would elsewhere, because the county around it does have restricted crossings on file at other nodes. Coconino County itself maintains 39 bridges and posts none of them; the restrictions measured elsewhere in this county belong to a city and are attached to pits some miles away. Here there is nothing at all.
So the road is open and the winter is the constraint
With 51 structures and no restriction on any of them, nothing physical stops a loaded truck leaving the cinder pit 1.82 miles from town.
What stops it is the calendar. This is high ground, and cinder and aggregate work at altitude runs to a shorter year than it does in the valley: hard months and then quiet ones, every year, for as long as the pit has been there. A two-person operation cannot smooth that out, and neither can whoever hauls for it.
The trucks that result are worked in bursts and stood in between, and they take winter while they stand. That is the one place in Coconino County where the dry-air argument stops applying — snow, sanding and cold do reach the underside, the brake hardware and the electrics here. So we check those specifically rather than assuming a desert truck, and a truck that has wintered under cover is worth telling us about.
Arizona weight law
One axle number, and the tolerance is already inside it
Whatever came off that pit ran 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, 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 Coconino 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 one operation 1.82 miles out and 51 structures of open road around it, getting the truck away is the easy half — there is simply nobody here who wants to buy 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 Williams
- 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 up here it is worth a proper look.
- Are there restricted bridges?None. The 2025 National Bridge Inventory records 51 structures within ten miles of the pit and not one is posted for load or coded below legal loads. Coconino County maintains 39 bridges of its own and posts none of them either.
- My truck has sat through winters up here.Then tell us, because this is the one part of the state where the underside, the brake hardware and the electrics genuinely suffer. It is not a deal-breaker; it is something to check properly rather than guess at.
- What is actually here?One row: a cinder pit under L.P.’s Cinder Pitt with 2 employees, 1.82 miles from the middle of town.
- 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. Two employees at a cinder pit 1.82 miles out is the entire recorded industry of this town, and in a Coconino County where 51 structures of road are open and nobody is hiring, the road out is the only market there is.
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 Williams and across Coconino County.