We buy trucks in Hackett

Both quarries registered to this town work dimension stone rather than aggregate. Ibison Stone Supply runs the larger with thirteen people; Heritage Stone works the other with five. Both are carried as surface operations.

That distinction matters for a truck. Crushed stone is loaded loose by the tonne and weighs out fast; dimension stone leaves as cut blocks and slabs, strapped down, and it goes out on flat decks rather than in a dump body.

It also puts the yards under a federal rule that reaches the driver, not just the operator.

That rule is Part 46, which covers sand, gravel and surface stone among others. It requires site-specific hazard awareness training for over-the-road delivery drivers before they work at each mine site — each site, not each company. A driver who has been trained at one yard is not thereby cleared for the next one.

The same federal rulebook now carries a respirable crystalline silica standard, with a permissible exposure limit of fifty micrograms per cubic metre and an action level of twenty-five; the compliance date for metal and non-metal operations, 8 April 2026, is past. That is a property of stone dust generally — no measured exposure at either of these sites was found, and none is claimed here.

None of which is a reason not to sell a truck. It is a reason the truck may have paperwork attached to it, and we would rather know.

Mine Safety and Health Administration, Part 46 and the respirable crystalline silica rule; site records for Ibison Stone Supply and Heritage Stone.

Those loads run under a state weight statute as well, and on a flat deck of cut stone it is the axle count that decides the ceiling.

Ark. Code § 27-35-203 holds a single axle to twenty thousand pounds and two or more consecutive axles to thirty-four thousand. Where a vehicle takes the section’s axle variance, three axles may not exceed seventy thousand pounds gross and four or more may not exceed eighty thousand — ten thousand pounds settled by the axle count alone, 31.75 metric tonnes against 36.3.

A second limb reaches older equipment. Where a vehicle carries 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, which turns a rating question into a statutory one on any truck old enough to have lost its plate.

Ark. Code § 27-35-203. Information, not legal advice.

Beyond the weight rules, the paperwork is that one sentence.

Everything after it is a fix rather than a category. A lost title has a counter replacement; where none exists there is a bonded route. Neither stops a sale.

The salvage rule brands a vehicle where it is water-damaged as the rule defines that — a limb of its own, needing no percentage — or where other damage reaches seventy per cent of average retail value in a pricing guide the Commissioner has approved. It does not apply to vehicles more than seven model years old before the year of the occurrence that caused the damage, which is most of what we buy.

Arkansas DFA administrative rule 006.05 2007-8, read alongside § 27-35-203. Information, not legal advice.

None of that narrows what we will look at. Flatbeds, dump trucks and aggregate haulers, farm trucks, tankers, rollbacks, service bodies, day cabs and road tractors, box trucks and straight trucks, and the work trucks and pickups that go with a crew.

Box trucks and straight trucks are not a Sebastian County speciality — they are everywhere. They are on the list because we buy them here too.

Whatever you drive, the offer doesn’t change. We buy all of them. Most of what turns up comes off the stone yards around Ibison Stone Supply, a farm lane, or a shop lot that sees neither.

• Will you come out to a town this small?Yes, and often we don’t need to. 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. Anywhere in Sebastian County, including the roads out to Ibison Stone Supply.
• 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.
• The engine is out of it. Is that different?Yes, and that is the line. A tired engine is fine; an engine that has been pulled out and sold means we can’t buy the truck.
• 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. A lienholder means a payoff and a release, and that is the slow part.
• It is a flat deck that hauled stone blocks.We buy those. Point loads from cut stone are hard on a deck and on the frame under it in a way that loose aggregate is not, so tell us what it carried — it changes what we look at rather than whether we are interested.

Those answers matter more than the stone does, because the reasons behind the call are ordinary. Retiring. A medical that didn’t go the way it used to. A small yard winding down or changing hands. A truck standing beside a shed since somebody stopped driving it, costing insurance every month it doesn’t turn a wheel.

Around Sebastian County and the roads out past Ibison Stone Supply there is usually one waiting.

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.