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

Two rows are attached to this place. One is a rail yard under CSX, 1.08 miles from the centroid — and its coordinate lies outside any incorporated place at all, so this is simply the nearest town holding a page. The other is a surface coal mine working 82 people for Pine Branch Mining, 9.43 miles out and attached the same way.

Neither is really in anywhere, and that is the honest description of a lot of eastern Kentucky industry: the work sits in a valley and the nearest post office lends it a name.

What the yard handles could not be determined from any source read for this work, the Kentucky statewide rail and freight plans included. Its coordinate is not a gate either — every rail-yard row in this dataset records the mean of a track polyline’s vertices, so 1.08 miles measures to the middle of some track.

That mine and that yard sit in the eastern Kentucky coal field, which is precisely where the state’s big weight allowance is meant to apply.

Kentucky certifies an Extended Weight Coal Haul Road System carrying 90,000 lb on one steering axle plus two tandem axles, with a five per cent tolerance. In Perry County that is not a curiosity; it is the rule the local haul was built around.

And it is a certified road list rather than a blanket allowance. Whether this location sits on a certified coal-haul road was not determined for this work, so the figure is described and deliberately not applied. A truck is on the system or it is not, and the number means nothing off it — which is why a page that quoted it here without the condition would be telling you something untrue about your own route.

Beyond that road list there is the ordinary statute, and it covers what moves here.

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. A hauler working the state and county network keeps the allowance, and there is not much interstate out here to lose it on.

What there is instead is terrain. Kentucky’s posted-bridge list was not located for this work, so no posting is asserted on any road near this town — but the valleys decide a route here whatever the ratings say, and a truck that worked them has hours the odometer will not show.

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, and none of it needs anybody to drive up the valley to begin.

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 the sum — a flat percentage rather than a formula. On 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, and out here the collection question matters more than the truck type does. Coal haulers and dump trucks off the Pine Branch Mining work. Day cabs and road tractors on whatever runs out of the valley. Flatbeds, box trucks and straight trucks, service bodies, rollbacks, and the pickups that go with a crew.

Whatever you drive, the offer doesn’t change. We buy all of them.

Start from the far end on collection, because with the mine 9.43 miles out and the yard outside any town, that is the realistic one. We can buy it remotely and arrange the tow with nobody coming out at all. If you would rather we came, we come to you and drive it away, or come to you and tow it. And you are welcome to bring it to us.

• 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 on the coal-haul roads.Then tell us which roads. The 90,000 lb system is a certified list, we have not read it, and we will not claim your truck was on it. What it carried and for how long is the useful part.
• Will you actually come up here?We will. But we do not need to. Plenty of trucks in Perry County we buy remotely and have towed, and with the nearest attached row 9.43 miles out that is the ordinary route rather than the fallback.
• My address is not really a town.Nor is the rail yard on this page — its coordinate lies outside any incorporated place. It changes nothing about buying 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, and where none ever existed there is a bonded route.
• How am I paid?Cash or electronic payment. That is the whole list.

Both of the last two usually sit inside a bigger story. Retiring, after a working life on the same valley roads. A medical that didn’t go the way it used to. A contract that finished, or a seam that ran out. A truck standing in a yard since somebody stopped driving it, costing insurance every month it isn’t turning a wheel.

Fewer buyers is the other reason the phone rings up here, and it is why an 82-person Pine Branch Mining surface operation and a yard outside any incorporated place being the whole of the Perry County record does not narrow what we look at.

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.