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

The coal here is filed as coal and none of it is dug. Three rows sit in the town, and the federal file codes every one of them a Facility rather than a surface or underground operation: the Baker coal terminal at six employees, the dock filed as Case No. 1 at five, and a coal terminal under CW Coal Sales at seven.

A Facility is a plant — a dock, a loadout, a transfer point. The coal arrives already cut. Nobody there is running a haul road out of a pit, and the truck work is the leg to the dock or the leg away from it rather than production haulage.

It changes how you read a truck out of this town. There is no in-pit wear on it: no shot rock landing in the body, no haul-road impact, no tyre cuts on a pit floor. What there is instead is road miles, weighbridge queues and repeated loading at a fixed yard, and those leave different marks.

Beyond the coal there is a refinery, and the record carries it twice. One row files it as a liquid-bulk terminal under Marathon Petroleum; another files it as a mineral plant with the commodity given as sulphur. Their coordinates are 0.87 miles apart and they are one facility.

The second of those is a mistyped row, and which parts of it to trust is the useful question. That layer is a six-state upload of a much older compilation: its operator names and its operating status are not reliable, though its coordinates and its commodity are. The operator string it carries is a company name retired in 2005; the refinery is owned and operated by Marathon Petroleum Corporation, with a total crude oil refining capacity of 307,000 barrels per calendar day.

Ashland is about ten miles up the road, which is the nearest thing to a city in this direction. Between the refinery, the docks and that stretch, the trucking here is tanker work, coal haulage and ordinary local freight in roughly that order of visibility.

Both of those trades meet the same statute, and unlike most of this state, here the commodity is the one the rules were built around.

Kentucky gives a ten per cent tolerance on the 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. Petroleum product is not.

There is a second and larger allowance, and it is specific to coal country. 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, and has done since 1986. But it is a certified road list rather than a blanket allowance: the Transportation Cabinet certifies which public highways qualify, and it rebuilds the system each year from where coal was actually reported hauled the year before, as submitted by the haulers themselves. The network is therefore retrospective and behavioural — it follows where the trucks went.

That certified list was not read for this work. So the 90,000 lb figure is described here and is deliberately not applied to any road named on this page. A truck is on the system or it is not, and the number means nothing off it.

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 been through 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. Dump trucks and coal haulers off the docks, tankers off the refinery trade, 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 Boyd 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 three docks, the Marathon Petroleum site and the ten miles of road up toward Ashland 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 hauled coal, but never off a mine.That is the normal answer in Boyd County, where the three coal rows are all docks rather than pits. Terminal work into the Baker coal terminal or the CW Coal Sales yard is road miles and repeated loading rather than in-pit wear, and it usually reads better on a body. Say so.
• It is a tanker and it has carried product all its life.Then tell us what. Barrels, hatches, valves, hoses and the internal condition are where that shows, and petroleum work is not on the same tolerance list as coal, so it also ran at different weights.
• 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 and up the road toward Ashland. We also buy trucks with nobody coming out at all and arrange the tow, which is often the simplest way to do it.

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 and took the run with it. 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 across Boyd County, whether the truck ran into the Baker coal terminal, pulled tank work around the Marathon Petroleum site, 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.