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

The largest is a mine working 82 people for Blue Diamond Mining. Alongside it sit a second and third coal row at ten people each, one of them a loading operation under Pine Branch Mining and one a mine 6.72 miles out, plus a coal preparation plant about a mile from the centroid and a rail yard 0.21 miles in under CSX.

Those are not one trade. A mine produces coal and needs it hauled off a working. A loading operation and a prep plant take coal that is already cut and move it between modes or through a wash. And a rail yard in the middle of town is drayage.

So a truck from around here could have spent its life on a haul road, or on a short fixed circuit between a plant and a loadout, or on town streets. Those wear differently and read differently, and no row name tells you which — you do.

That last one repays a second look because of how close it is. At 0.21 miles from the city centroid the CSX yard is not a terminal out on a bypass; it is in among the streets, with the prep plant about a mile further and the Pine Branch Mining loading operation beyond that.

What that means for equipment is traffic, tight turns, repeated coupling and constant low-speed work — hours that accumulate far faster than miles. A truck that spent years on a circuit that short has a clutch, brakes and suspension well ahead of its odometer, and it is a genuinely different machine from one that ran the same years up a valley.

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 also a polyline-vertex mean rather than a gate, so the 0.21 miles measures to the middle of some track.

All five of those rows sit under one statute, and in this county its coal half is the one that was written for the place.

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. This is the eastern Kentucky coal field and that is exactly where it is meant to apply. It is also a certified road list rather than a blanket allowance, and whether any road here sits on the certified list was not determined for this work — so the figure is described and applied to nothing. A truck is on the system or it is not.

The everyday rule is the other one: a ten per cent tolerance on the axle weight provisions for 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, and not on the interstate system. Coal is named, and there is little interstate out here to lose it on.

Kentucky’s posted-bridge list was not located for this work, so no posting is asserted on any road near this town — though the valleys decide a route here whatever the ratings say.

KRS 177.9771 and KRS 189.222(1)(c); 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 coal equipment that has worked a valley for years 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. Coal haulers and dump trucks off the Blue Diamond Mining and Pine Branch Mining work, 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 coalfield 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 mines up the valleys, the prep plant, and the yard 0.21 miles from the middle of town 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. A truck that has not moved since a seam closed is an ordinary case here, not an awkward one.

• 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 worked a plant, not a mine.Then say so, because it reads differently. A prep plant and a loading operation take coal that is already cut, so the work is short fixed circuits and repeated loading rather than haul-road impact and rock in the body. It usually shows better on a frame.
• It hauled on the coal-haul roads.Then tell us which. The 90,000 lb system is a certified road list, we have not read it, and we will not claim your route was on it. What it carried and for how long is the useful part.
• Low mileage, worn out.That is a Perry County valley, or a yard circuit 0.21 miles from town. Both put hours on a truck the odometer never records. Say which 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.

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 a seam that ran out, or an operator that consolidated. A truck standing in a yard since somebody stopped driving it, costing insurance every month it isn’t turning a wheel.

With an 82-person Blue Diamond Mining operation and four smaller rows in one Perry County town, that last one tends to arrive in groups rather than singly.

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.