Sell your semi truck for cash in Ashland the easy and convenient way

The research behind these pages attaches exactly one industrial row to this city: a rail yard operated by CSX, its coordinate 1.72 miles from the city centroid and inside the place. That is the whole of it.

What the yard handles could not be determined from any source read for this work, the Kentucky statewide rail and freight plans included. And the coordinate is not a gate — every rail-yard row in this dataset records its location as the mean of a track polyline’s vertices, so 1.72 miles measures to the middle of some track.

A thin record is not a thin city, and this page will not pad the difference. What is true is that a yard sits in the middle of town and nobody published what moves through it.

Those neighbours are where the substance is, because this city sits in the middle of them. The Catlettsburg refinery is about ten miles down the road — a facility with 307,000 barrels a calendar day of crude refining capacity, and three coal docks around it, none of which is a mine.

Going the other way, the quarry district at Olive Hill is 26.4 miles out, and Cannonsburg sits 9.4 miles from here.

Read together that is a real description of the trucking: tanker work off the refinery trade, coal haulage into and out of docks rather than pits, stone coming in from the west, and ordinary local freight through the middle of it. None of that needed inventing, and none of it is claimed as a measurement of this city’s own traffic.

Both of those trades meet one statute, and it treats them differently.

Kentucky gives a ten per cent tolerance on its axle weight provisions to vehicles engaged exclusively in hauling crushed stone, fill dirt and rock, soil, bulk sand, coal, phosphate muck, asphalt, concrete, solid waste, tankage or animal residues, livestock, feed for livestock or poultry, and agricultural products — except on the interstate system. Coal is on that list and crushed stone is on it. Refined petroleum product is not, so a tanker never had the allowance to lose.

The second and larger figure is coal-specific and it is a road list rather than a rule. The Extended Weight Coal Haul Road System carries 90,000 lb on one steering axle plus two tandem axles with a five per cent tolerance, on public highways the Transportation Cabinet certifies and rebuilds each year from where coal was actually reported hauled the year before, as submitted by the haulers. The network follows the trucks. That certified list was not read for this work, so the figure is described here and applied to no road.

Kentucky’s posted-bridge list was not located for this work either, so nothing on this page says whether postings bind on any road named here.

KRS 189.222(1)(c) and KRS 177.9771; Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, Coal Haul Highway System. Information, not legal advice.

Beyond the weight, the paperwork is that one sentence.

Everything after it is a fix rather than a category. A lost title has a counter replacement; where one never existed there is a bonded route. Neither stops a sale.

The statute brands a vehicle salvage when parts and labour to rebuild it to pre-accident condition and legal operation exceed 75 per cent of its retail value, with the cost of reinstalling a deployed airbag system excluded from that sum — a flat percentage rather than a formula. On a tanker or a coal body that has had a hard life it is the number that decides what the title says.

And on a truck standing at somebody else’s yard the clock is 45 days, after which, with reasonable or agreed storage or towing charges unpaid, it may be sold to pay them. Liens are recorded through the county clerk here and may be transmitted electronically.

KRS 186A.520 on branding, KRS 186A.195 on liens, and KRS ch. 376 on storage and towing. Information, not legal advice.

None of that narrows what we will look at. Tankers off the refinery trade, dump trucks and coal haulers off the docks, day cabs and road tractors, flatbeds, rollbacks, box trucks and straight trucks, service bodies, and the work trucks and pickups that go with a crew.

Box trucks and straight trucks are not a river-city thing in particular — 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. The yard 1.72 miles in from the centroid, the ten miles down to the refinery and the 26.4 miles out toward the Olive Hill quarries are simply where a lot of them turn up.

On collection: we come to you and drive it away, we come to you and tow it, we buy it remotely and arrange the tow with nobody coming out at all, or you bring it to us. Any of those is ordinary here.

• 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.
• It ran tank work out of the refinery.Then tell us what it carried. Barrels, hatches, valves, hoses and the internal condition are where that shows — and petroleum product is not on the Kentucky tolerance list, so it also ran at different weights from a coal truck on the same road.
• It hauled coal but never off a mine.That is the normal answer around here, where the coal rows down at the docks are terminals rather than pits. Road miles and repeated loading at a fixed yard rather than in-pit wear, and it usually reads better on a body.
• 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 ever existed there is a bonded route.
• How am I paid?Cash or electronic payment. That is the whole list.
• How far out do you come?All of Boyd County, down the ten miles to the refinery, and west toward the Olive Hill quarries. We also buy trucks with nobody coming out at all and arrange the tow.

Those are the practical questions, and the reasons behind them are mostly personal. Retiring. A medical that didn’t go the way it used to. A contract that ended, or an industry that thinned out and left the equipment standing. A truck at the back of a yard since somebody stopped driving it, costing insurance every month it isn’t turning a wheel.

It reads the same across Boyd County, whether the truck ran the ten miles to the refinery, hauled stone in from 26.4 miles west, or never went near either.

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.