Arkansas moves a lot on the river and the rail. There is a port at Helena-West Helena and petroleum terminals at Arkansas City, with liquid-bulk terminals at Pine Bluff, Fort Smith, Blytheville and North Little Rock. An intermodal ramp works at Marion, rail yards run at El Dorado, Crossett and De Queen, metal mines sit at Bauxite and Bryant, and crushed-stone and sand-and-gravel quarries are spread statewide.
That mix is why we stay open to everything. A Freightliner day cab out of Little Rock, a Mack dump truck near Fort Smith, a Peterbilt sleeper off a Blytheville run or a Chevrolet dually out of Jonesboro all go through the same steps: send photos and the particulars, we come back with an offer, and if you're happy we'll come to you, buy it remotely, or you can bring it to us.
Arkansas’s trucking industry is home to major distribution networks anchored by Walmart’s supply chain, making it a busy state for commercial trucking.
The statute is the other half of it, and for a tandem dump it is blunter than most people expect. Ark. Code § 27-35-203 sets twenty thousand pounds on a single axle and thirty-four thousand on two or more consecutive axles whose centres fall more than forty and not more than ninety-six inches apart. Where a vehicle takes that section’s axle variance, one with only three axles may not exceed seventy thousand pounds gross and one with four or more may not exceed eighty thousand. A three-axle truck is capped ten thousand pounds under a four-axle one — 31.75 metric tonnes against 36.3. A second limb catches older trucks. Where the vehicle has no plate attached by the manufacturer giving its axle and gross ratings, the maximum allowed on the front or steering axle is twelve thousand pounds. A missing plate is ordinary on a truck of the age this trade turns over, and it converts a rating question into a statutory one.
The state brands a vehicle salvage where it is water-damaged as the rule defines that, or where other damage reaches seventy per cent of average retail value in a pricing guide the Commissioner has approved. Two things there are unusual: water damage is a limb of its own and need not reach any percentage at all, and the valuation base is a guide the state approves rather than one the parties choose. A branded title reads salvage, and on repair the brand becomes rebuilt, printed in the remarks on the face of the title. The exclusion is the part that decides most of this trade. The rule does not apply to vehicles more than seven model years old before the year of the occurrence that caused the damage. Most of what we buy is well past that, so for a typical used truck the branding rule does not reach it at all, whatever the damage came to.
Arkansas DFA administrative rule 006.05 2007-8, Salvage, Rebuilt and Parts Only Vehicles, read alongside § 27-35-203.