St. Martin Parish
Where Catahoula sits
Catahoula is in St. Martin Parish, and the census counts 594 people here, at 194 per square mile, with a median age of 60.6 years.
What we know about Catahoula is what the census records and what Louisiana law requires; the yards, pits and depots we have researched elsewhere have no entry here. So the question we can actually answer is how a truck gets out, not who else might want it.
Louisiana weight law
That road has a number on it
That route out is where the state stops being an abstraction. Louisiana sets the ceiling before any local sign lowers it.
In Louisiana, the trailer must carry an additional single axle — six axles for the combination.
In Louisiana the special farm or forest product permit is up to 100,000 lb for a combination.
In Louisiana the INTERSTATE harvest season permit weight limit is 83,400 lb on the interstate system, for farm and forest products in their natural state and other specified commodities.
So what leaves Catahoula
That rule meets 594 people in Catahoula, St. Martin Parish, at a household median around $44,539 and a density of 194 per square mile. A truck sitting in a driveway here is a working asset that has stopped working, whatever the size of the place it stopped in.
What we take out of a place like this is sleeper tractors and day cabs, dump trucks and roll-offs, box trucks and flatbeds, pickups and duallys, and the service and utility bodies that outlive the business that bought them.
Straight answers
The questions we get asked in Catahoula
Do you actually come to St. Martin Parish? Yes. We come to you and drive it away, we come to you and tow it, we buy it remotely and arrange the tow, or you drive it to us.
Do you come out to a place this size? 594 people at 194 per square mile is a place we reach the same way we reach anywhere else. The truck decides whether we buy it, not the population.
How do you pay? We pay either cash or electronically.