We buy trucks in Alpharetta

One node is filed here: a crushed-stone operation reporting 19 employees to the mine regulator. Its coordinate lies 6.16 miles from the city centroid.

That city is in Fulton County. The census block lookup places the node in Forsyth. So the named city is in a different county from the node it names, and the two facts sit in the record side by side.

Six miles is not a large error, and that is exactly the point. This research flags a city match as wrong when the distance passes fifteen miles; at 6.16 miles this one falls comfortably under the threshold and is wrong anyway. A county cross-check catches it. A distance test cannot.

It also sits in the ordinary part of the distribution rather than the tail. Across all 534 researched rows in the states with a Census place file, 41.0% lie more than five miles from the city the node list names, 15.2% more than ten and 8.6% more than fifteen, with a median of 4.24 miles. This row is unremarkable on distance, which is why it needed a different test to find it.

That is two labels for one location, and the qualified-products list makes it three. GDOT carries the operation as qualified source 129C, entered as “Midsouth Aggregates Forsyth County, GA 3561 Peachtree Pkway Suwanee, GA 30024”.

So the mine record names one city, the qualified source names a county and a Suwanee address, and the node list names a third place. Three registers, three labels, one pit — which matters if you are trying to match a truck’s paperwork or a delivery ticket to a place, and it matters not at all to the machine itself.

What that source records is the material: granite gneiss, a Los Angeles abrasion loss of 41, absorption 0.54%, bulk specific gravity 2.697, magnesium sulphate soundness 0.5, class A.

Across the Georgia sources matched in this research the loss runs from 17 to 55, so 41 sits near the middle of it, and the class is A. Nothing in either number pushes the customer mix or the maintenance one way: some fines under handling, some scouring, neither problem in full.

Those loads run on a network that hardly restricts anything. Forsyth County posts one of its 58 county-maintained bridges: 1.7%.

Within ten miles of the node the 2025 national bridge inventory records 246 structures, of which 16 are coded posted for load and exactly one of those is county-maintained. The nearest is 1.9 miles out. All sixteen clear the 11.0-tonne commercial floor — a hundred per cent commercial share — so the binding cap and the raw minimum are the same figure, 12.7 metric tonnes, and that cap admits only about 1.7 tonnes of stone over the tare of an empty tandem dump.

Both of those are true at once and neither cancels the other: very few crossings are restricted at all, and the ones that are do not take much. What the county rate measures is the age and the funding of the structures, and this county was farmland within living memory and is now among the fastest-growing in the United States, so its bridge stock is new.

Which relocates the wear rather than removing it. Where the constraint is traffic instead of weight, it lands in idle hours, in brakes and in transmissions rather than in frames and axles — so on a truck from here, that is where to look first.

Those are the roads. The statute is the other ceiling, and here the county argument has a tidy ending. O.C.G.A. § 32-6-26 puts the general gross limit at 80,000 lb on state and US highways, and HB 189 (2023), as amended by HB 164 (2025), lets forest-products and agricultural loads run ten per cent over — 88,000 lb on five axles — within 150 miles of origin, on state and local roads only, and outside the air-quality non-attainment counties. HB 164 removed the 2025 sunset, so the figure is permanent.

Fulton is one of the thirteen. So is Forsyth. Whichever county you decide this node belongs to, the variance is switched off — which is the one question on this page where the county mix-up above changes nothing at all.

Crushed stone would not have qualified in any case, being neither a forest product nor an agricultural one. And the inversion still applies to anyone hauling something that does qualify elsewhere: Georgia state and US highways take that load at 84,000 lb including tolerances while the interstate caps at 80,000 lb plus the federal bridge formula, so the interstate is the lower limit. County roads run to 56,000 lb unless the truck is making a pickup or delivery on that road.

O.C.G.A. § 32-6-26; HB 189 (2023) as amended by HB 164 (2025). Information, not legal advice.

Those rules decide the load. This one decides the sale, and it is a single sentence.

Everything after it is a fix rather than a category. A lost title is a counter transaction at a tag office — a driver’s licence, the year, make and model, the vehicle identity number, a fee of $18, printed on the spot in about forty-five minutes depending on the line. Where no title exists, the bonded route runs through a surety company, an application with a sales document, a police inspection form confirming the vehicle is not stolen, then the tag office.

Georgia brands salvage by a total-loss formula rather than a fixed percentage, weighing repair cost against actual cash value with salvage value factored in, where Kentucky uses a flat 75% of retail and Alabama 75% of fair retail value before the damage. Under O.C.G.A. § 40-3-37 the commissioner inspects a salvaged or rebuilt vehicle before any title issues, and the rebuild has to have been done in Georgia.

Where there is a lien on it the release is the slow part. Georgia files liens electronically and a lienholder on that programme cannot issue a paper release; only lienholders holding liens on fewer than five Georgia-titled vehicles may use the paper certificate. Emissions is still not a step even though both counties here are among the thirteen: diesel vehicles are exempt and anything above 8,500 lb rated gross is outside the programme entirely.

O.C.G.A. § 40-3-37; Georgia Department of Revenue title, lien and emissions guidance. Information, not legal advice.

None of that changes what we buy. Dump trucks and aggregate haulers off the Forsyth County gate. Day cabs and road tractors on the runs down into the metro and back. Timber rigs and farm trucks, which qualify for nothing extra on either side of this county line but are bought here the same. Box trucks, straight trucks, flatbeds, lowboys, rollbacks, tankers, service bodies, and the work trucks and pickups that go out with a crew. Whichever of Fulton County or Forsyth a register decided the pit was in, the answer is the same.

Whatever you drive, the offer doesn’t change. We buy all of them.

• 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 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. A lost title has a counter replacement; where none exists there is a bonded route. Neither stops a sale.
• Your page says the quarry is in Forsyth. I thought it was here.Both records exist and this page prints both. The mine row is filed to this city, and the census block lookup puts the coordinate in Forsyth County, 6.16 miles out. We are not going to pick one and hide the other.
• It has high hours and low miles. Is that a problem?It is the normal shape of a truck from this county. With one posted bridge in 58 the constraint here is traffic rather than weight, so idle hours, brakes and transmission carry the wear.
• Is anybody coming out to north Fulton County for one truck?Usually yes, and it is a short run — but it is not required. We buy it remotely and arrange the tow just as readily. We also come to you and drive it away, or come to you and tow it, and you can bring it to us.

That last one is the question under most of the calls from Fulton County and from Forsyth County, and what sits behind it has nothing to do with which register put the pit where, or with 1.9 miles to the nearest posted crossing.

Retiring. A medical that went the wrong way. A contract that ended and left one machine too many in the yard. Sometimes it is only that the truck has been parked since the last job finished, and every month it sits is another month of insurance on something that isn’t turning a wheel.

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.