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Two quarries are filed to this town and they sit 2.3 miles from each other under different operators. The Mulberry Quarry reports 9 employees and the Paulding Quarry 22.

Both are on the state qualified list and both are called granite gneiss on it. The Mulberry source is 156C on Mulberry Rock Road, with a Los Angeles abrasion loss of 38%, absorption 0.57% and bulk specific gravity 2.607. The Paulding source is 144C on Quarry Drive, abrasion 36%, absorption 0.61%, specific gravity 2.601.

At a theoretical density of 134.4 lb per cubic foot the Paulding source is the lowest-density of the twenty north Georgia sources examined in its batch. Light rock fills the box before it fills the axles, so a body sized for heavier stone runs visually full and legally under, which is worth saying to anyone who thinks a half-empty box means a half-used truck.

That agreement between the two records does not hold everywhere. On the Mulberry row, 2.3 miles from its neighbour in Paulding County, the mine regulator records the commodity as crushed and broken limestone while the state qualified list records the character of material as granite gneiss.

Those are not variations on a theme. Limestone is a carbonate and granite gneiss is a silicate crystalline rock; they weather differently, they behave differently in a body, and one of the two records is wrong. Neither was adjudicated by the research, so this page does not adjudicate it either.

What that means practically: if you are selling a truck that hauled out of Mulberry Rock Road, do not take either rock name as settled, and describe what you actually saw in the body instead. Packed fines and a floor that will not empty clean point one way; a scoured, thinned floor points the other. The truck is better evidence than the paperwork here.

Beyond the local work, both operations reach a long way. Tennessee’s transport department carries each as an approved out-of-state aggregate source — producer 59900111 matched to one site by coordinate at 0.02 miles, and producer 59900113 matched to the other at 0.11 miles.

Only facilities on that list may be used on a Tennessee project, so the register establishes that stone from both pits supplies highway work in another state rather than leaving it to inference. Ninety-nine of the 278 approved producers on the list are out of state.

One of the operator names on those rows has a history worth knowing. Midsouth Aggregates traces to the 2018 antitrust remedy in which a court required Martin Marietta to divest its Forsyth quarry to Midsouth Paving, a subsidiary of CRH. So a name change on a gate here was a competition ruling rather than a sale, which is the sort of thing that makes old paperwork disagree with a current sign.

Those long legs make this a two-jurisdiction question and both answers agree. O.C.G.A. § 32-6-26 sets the general gross limit at 80,000 lb on state and US highways. 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.

Paulding is one of the thirteen metro counties the provision excludes, so the allowance is geographically unavailable. Crushed stone is outside the commodity list in any case, and Tennessee’s equivalent does not name crushed stone either — so a load leaving either gate for a project in either state runs to the plain cap the whole way.

The inversion still matters on the road out. Georgia state and US highways take the forest-products 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 — and the interstate is what a Tennessee-bound load uses. 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); Tenn. Code Ann. 55-7-203(b)(7). 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. On a truck that has been running into Tennessee that is not academic: the same damage can brand in one jurisdiction and stay clean in the next. 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 not a step — this county is inside the thirteen-county programme, but diesel vehicles are exempt regardless of age or weight and anything above 8,500 lb rated gross is outside it entirely.

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

None of that changes what we buy from one truck to the next. Dump trucks and aggregate haulers off Mulberry Rock Road and Quarry Drive. Day cabs and road tractors on the interstate legs north into Tennessee and back. Flatbeds and lowboys moving plant between the two pits. Box trucks, straight trucks, rollbacks, tankers, service bodies, and the work trucks and pickups that go out with a crew across Paulding County.

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.
• The box always looked full and it never made weight. Was it overloaded?Probably the opposite. At 134.4 lb per cubic foot the Quarry Drive source is the lowest-density in its batch, so a legal payload fills more of the box than heavier stone would. Visually full and legally under is the normal picture here.
• My old paperwork has a different company on it. Does that matter?Not to us. One of the operator names in Paulding County changed as a result of a 2018 antitrust divestiture rather than an ordinary sale, so old and new documents naming different firms is expected. Send what you have.

Those last two get asked together, and what is behind them has nothing to do with a rock-name disagreement or with a producer list in another state.

Retiring. A medical that went the wrong way. A haul contract that ended and left one machine too many standing between Mulberry Rock Road and Quarry Drive. Sometimes it is only that the truck has been parked since the last run north, 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.