A three-person quarry
One limestone pit, one yard, and not much else on the record
Delta sits in Delta County and carries two rows that genuinely belong to it. A dimension limestone quarry works three people, resolving within about three miles of the town, and a classification yard sits 1.56 miles out. Dimension stone rather than crushed aggregate, which is a different trade entirely.
Three people is a small operation by any measure, and that is the useful fact rather than a shortcoming. A quarry that size runs a handful of machines, keeps them a long time, and replaces them when something expensive finally goes rather than on a schedule.
Dimension stone also travels differently from crushed rock. Blocks go out on flatbeds to a mill or a yard rather than by the ton to a batch plant, so the trucks are flat and heavy rather than tipping, and there are fewer of them.
A note on the records
The third row filed here is forty miles away
That count of two needs explaining, because a third row carries this town’s name. A crushing operation with 3 employees on it is filed to this place, and its coordinate puts it between 42 miles and 45 miles off — far enough west that it is a different valley and a different working day.
It is filed here because a source named the town rather than because a coordinate landed in it. Where the two disagree this page follows the coordinate, so that operation is not counted among the sites above and no distance to it is claimed.
Saying so matters more in a small place than a large one. Two rows and three rows are not very different numbers, but one of them describes the town and the other describes a filing convention.
Getting it collected
Nobody has to drive out here for a sale to happen
Both of those things — a three-person quarry and a town on the western slope — point at the same practical question, which is whether anyone will actually come. The honest answer is that they do not have to.
We buy trucks remotely and arrange the tow ourselves, which out here is frequently the fastest route and does not need anybody to make the drive first. We also come and drive it away, come and tow it, or take it if you are bringing it to us anyway.
Which of those happens is a detail rather than a decision you have to make on the phone. A truck standing by the yard 1.56 miles from the middle of town and one parked out past the Lime Company quarry are the same job to us. Tell us what it is and where it is standing, and the collection sorts itself out afterwards.
Colorado paperwork
The brand is stamped into the truck, not just the title
Beyond the collection, two state rules reach a sale here, and one of them marks the vehicle itself rather than the paperwork.
Colorado’s salvage rule is physical. Under C.R.S. § 42-6-136.5 a purchaser of a vehicle that has become salvage must apply for a salvage certificate of title, and an owner who makes one roadworthy again needs a certified VIN inspection under § 42-5-202. To pass that inspection the applicant has to stamp the vehicle with a brand reading Rebuilt From Salvage, each letter not less than a quarter of an inch high.
The designation then becomes a permanent part of the certificate of title and appears on every title issued for that vehicle afterwards. Two forms carry it: DR 2415 establishes a rebuilt title from a salvage title, and DR 2424 is the statement of facts. In Colorado the history does not come off, and it is not only on paper.
What the threshold for becoming salvage is, we do not state. The central rule file identifies § 42-6-102 and records that it was not read, so no Colorado percentage appears here. The gross and axle schedule is not in that file either, and neither is the chain law, which for a mountain state is the gap worth naming rather than filling.
One thing worth correcting, because it reaches trucks and is usually reported the wrong way round. Colorado adopted Advanced Clean Trucks as the eighth state, applying from model year 2027 and growing through model year 2035, and it has been under challenge since the June 2025 repeal of California’s federal waivers. It is a manufacturer sales standard. It does not require a fleet, an owner, an operator or a dealership to buy a zero-emission vehicle, and it puts no deadline on anybody’s diesel.
C.R.S. § 42-6-136.5 and § 42-5-202, with Colorado DMV forms DR 2415 and DR 2424, and the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment on Advanced Clean Trucks. Information, not legal advice, and only as current as the day those were read.
What we buy here
All of that iron is iron we buy. Flatbeds and heavy haul off the Lime Company quarry and its 3 employees. Tandem dumps and aggregate haulers. Day cabs and road tractors working out of the yard 1.56 miles from town.
Box trucks, straight trucks, rollbacks, sleepers, tankers, service bodies, work trucks and pickups too — not a western slope thing in particular, they run everywhere.
Whatever you drive, the offer doesn’t change. We buy all of them.
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 Delta
- 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.
- Will you really come out here?We will, and we also buy remotely and arrange the tow with nobody driving out at all. On the western slope that second route is often quicker.
- It hauled stone, not gravel.Understood, and it matters. A flatbed off the Lime Company quarry has carried concentrated point loads rather than spread bulk, so the deck and the frame are what we look at first.
- What about the title?We need one unless the truck is old enough that it never had one. A lost title has a counter replacement, and where none exists there is a bonded route.
- It is an old truck that has barely moved.Common on an operation with 3 employees and not a problem. Low distance with long ownership is a pattern we see constantly out here, where the yard is 1.56 miles away and the work is closer still.
- How do you pay?Cash or electronic payment, whichever suits you.
Why people call
Beyond a truck that has simply done the work, the reasons here are ordinary ones. Retiring, most often, because a small operation is usually one or two people and it ends when they do. A medical that went the wrong way. A job that finished.
On the Lime Company ground, with 3 employees on it, there is rarely a second machine to absorb the work, so when the reason arrives the truck stops the same week.
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.