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The research behind these pages attaches a single row to this town: a National Guard regional training centre, 3.72 miles from the centroid. That is the whole of the industrial record, and this page will not pad the difference.

A training centre is a customer rather than a producer. Work at one runs to a programme and a budget rather than to a construction season, so the demand is steady and specified and does not stop in winter — which is easier on seals, batteries and hydraulics than a hard summer and a dead six months.

Nothing further about the site was established for this work, so nothing further is claimed for it. What the trucks around here actually did is something you will have to tell us, and that is a perfectly ordinary way to start.

Those roads can be described honestly even without a row of this town’s own, because two crushed-stone nodes elsewhere in Muhlenberg County were measured. Within ten miles of them the 2025 National Bridge Inventory records 82 structures, of which 25 are posted for load and eight are county-maintained.

The nearest posted crossing to those nodes is 2.0 miles out and the floor is 19.5 metric tonnes, about 21.5 US tons — a cap you load down to rather than a road you cannot use, and a long way from the 4.5-tonne ratings much of eastern Kentucky bottoms out at. Across the county, 11 of 37 county-maintained bridges are posted.

Those are the county’s numbers, measured at the county’s own nodes, and they are offered as that rather than as this town’s. It is the difference between a useful neighbouring measurement and a borrowed one presented as your own.

Whatever a truck carried, the statute treats it by what is in the body.

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. Crushed stone and coal are both named, which covers most of what has moved on this ground.

The second allowance is coal-specific and is a road list rather than a rule. 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, on public highways the Transportation Cabinet certifies each year from where coal was actually reported hauled the year before. That certified list was not read for this work, so the figure is described here and applied to no road.

KRS 189.222(1)(c) and KRS 177.9771; FHWA National Bridge Inventory 2025. 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 aggregate haulers, coal haulers, day cabs and road tractors, flatbeds, service bodies and the work trucks that go with a maintenance crew, box trucks and straight trucks, rollbacks, and pickups.

Box trucks and straight trucks are not a west 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 training centre 3.72 miles out, the Muhlenberg County quarry roads and the coalfield around 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 worked to a government programme rather than a season.Then it probably had steadier hours than a commercial fleet does — no long cold-parked winter, which is easier on seals, batteries and hydraulics. Say what the work was and roughly how long.
• It hauled coal in an earlier life.Coal is on the Kentucky tolerance list, so it ran at the allowance. Coal bodies wear differently from stone bodies though — and the Muhlenberg County quarry roads it would have shared are the 19.5-tonne ones above. Tell us which it carried and for how long.
• 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 Muhlenberg County and the counties around it, and out to the training centre 3.72 miles from the middle of town. We also buy trucks with nobody coming out at all and arrange the tow, which is often simplest.

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 Muhlenberg County, whether the truck served the training centre 3.72 miles out, hauled stone or coal, or did neither.

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.