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

The Black River operation records 163 employees on the federal file, which is the largest headcount of the sixty crushed-stone sites researched in the first three rounds of this work. It is underground, run by Carmeuse Lime and Stone, and the state carries it as source AGP006301 at 9043 Highway 154, Carntown, three miles south-east of Mentor where Route 8 meets Route 154. That entry is asterisked, which the source book’s legend defines as a mine operation.

A surface quarry sits with it: 19 people under Hilltop Stone, carried as AGP006401 on KY 177, half a mile east of where US 27 and KY 177 meet.

So this is a small place holding one very large employer and one ordinary one, half a mile from a US route junction. That combination is what puts trucks on these roads, and it is two quite different kinds of truck work.

That Black River operation is described in unusual detail on the federal record, and the description settles what a truck did there. It is room and pillar work in two benches: shot rock drilled, blasted, and loaded by front-end loaders into haulage trucks, taken to an underground jaw crusher, and conveyed up to the surface plant, where finished lime products are made for construction, agriculture and chemical industries.

Read that as a haul and it splits in two. The in-mine leg is short, repetitive and under cover — loader to crusher, all day, on a made floor. The road leg does not start until the surface plant. A truck that worked the first of those has hours and loading cycles far out of proportion to its mileage; a truck that worked the second is an ordinary highway machine.

The same record has the Black River workings running two ten-hour shifts a day, four days a week, at 87 employees — a Pendleton County operation on a four-day week. That headcount is from a different moment than the 163 above, and both are given as they stand rather than reconciled. A four-day week of ten-hour shifts is its own kind of wear: fewer cold starts, longer continuous running.

Both of those legs end up carrying something, and what is in the body decides the legal weight. Kentucky’s ten per cent bulk-commodity tolerance names crushed stone. It does not name lime.

At an operation that mines stone and ships finished lime, that is not an abstraction. Aggregate off the Hilltop Stone quarry and aggregate off the Black River plant carry the allowance; a load of finished lime product off the same site does not. One gate, two legal weights, and the difference is what happened to the rock in between.

Pendleton County is not a big place, so a hauler here may well do both in a week. The paperwork has to keep up with which load is which, and a truck sold out of that work has run at two different weights across its life.

That split is written into one statute, and the useful thing is to see the whole list at once.

Kentucky allows a ten per cent tolerance on the axle weight provisions for vehicles engaged exclusively in transporting 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. Lime is not there. Neither is cement, nor brick, nor manufactured product of any kind.

The second Kentucky figure belongs to a separate certified network: 90,000 lb on one steering axle plus two tandem axles with a five per cent tolerance, on a road list the Transportation Cabinet certifies and rebuilds each year from where coal was actually reported hauled. That list was not read for this work, so the number is not applied to any road named here.

KRS 189.222(1)(c) and KRS 177.9771. 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 calculation — a flat percentage rather than a formula, which is what to check on a truck that has been hit and put back together.

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. Dump trucks and aggregate haulers off both operations, tankers and bulk trailers off the lime side, day cabs and road tractors, flatbeds, farm trucks, 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 Pendleton County 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 Black River workings, the Hilltop Stone quarry on KY 177 and the farms between them 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 only ever worked underground.Then hours and loading cycles are the reading, not miles. Loader to crusher on a made floor all shift puts enormous cycle counts on a body and a driveline while the odometer barely moves. Say so — at the Black River workings that is the normal shape of the job.
• It hauled lime rather than stone.Then it ran without the ten per cent tolerance, because lime is not on the Kentucky list. Different weight out of the same Pendleton County gate. It does not change whether we buy it.
• 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 this county and the ones around it. We also buy trucks with nobody coming out at all and arrange the tow from there, which is often simpler for everybody.

Those are the practical questions, and the reasons behind them are mostly personal. Retiring after a working life at one company — and in a place with an employer this size, that is a common story. A medical that didn’t go the way it used to. A contract that finished. A truck standing 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 whether the truck hauled for Hilltop Stone, ran product out of the Black River plant, 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.