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

One industrial row is attached to this place: the Princess Mine, a mineral operation working common clay and shale, its node about three miles out in Boyd County. That is the whole of the record here, and this page will not pad the difference.

What kind of clay country this is, is on the record. The clay bed running through this part of eastern Kentucky is a long-recognised fireclay horizon, and the region’s clay industry was historically refractory brick rather than face brick — a different product, a different customer and a different kind of load from the one a builders’ merchant takes.

Who runs it is less certain, and the honest thing is to say so. The layer that carries these rows records an operator name that reads as a mangled personal name, and a second source names a national brick company. Neither was corroborated, so neither is repeated here as a fact about today.

Those clay hauls run on roads that were not laid out for them. These are narrow mountain valleys, and the network through them was built for coal — which is why Kentucky certifies an extended-weight coal haul road system at all.

It shows in the geometry more than in any rule. A valley road has the turns it has, and a loaded truck works harder on one than a mileage figure suggests. Whatever the load is, the route was drawn for a different one.

Distances set the rest. Ashland is 9.4 miles from here, which is the nearest city in this direction; the quarry district at Olive Hill is 26.4 miles beyond it, and the Catlettsburg refinery about ten miles the other way. That is the working geography of a truck based here.

Those two commodities meet the same statute and it treats them differently, which is the practical thing to take from this page.

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 named there. So are soil and fill dirt and rock. Clay is not, and neither is brick.

The second allowance is the one the roads here were built around. 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 — but on a certified list of highways rather than everywhere, and that list was not read for this work. A truck is on the system or it is not, and the figure means nothing off it.

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

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 calculation — a flat percentage rather than a formula.

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 coal haulers, day cabs and road tractors, flatbeds, tankers, box trucks and straight trucks, service bodies, rollbacks, and the work trucks and pickups that go with a crew.

Box trucks and straight trucks are not an eastern Kentucky 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 Princess Mine clay ground, the 9.4 miles into Ashland and the Boyd County valleys 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. On a valley road the remote one often saves everybody a long way round.

• 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 hauled clay for a brick works.Fine, and say so, because clay is not on the Kentucky tolerance list the way coal and stone are. Different legal weights on the same Boyd County roads, and a different kind of load in the body.
• It is an old coal truck and the work has gone.That is the common story out here. Equipment outlives the work it was bought for, and a closed operation says nothing about the truck. Tell us what it did.
• 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, the 9.4 miles into Ashland and on toward the refinery. 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 finished, 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.

That last one is the common case in this part of Boyd County, where the roads were built for coal and the coal work is not what it was. At 9.4 miles from Ashland, with the Princess Mine ground the only industrial row on the record, there is nobody obvious to sell a truck to — which is most of why the phone rings.

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.