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

Seven rail yards are filed to this city, which is more than any other Louisiana city on the same list carries; the next-largest count is four. Four are worked by the Kansas City Southern Railway and three by Union Pacific. The closest sits 1.06 miles from the centroid and the furthest 5.27 miles, and no two of the seven turn out to be the same facility recorded twice.

Beyond the rail there is a refinery run by Calumet Specialty Products on Midway Avenue, a general cargo dock on the river working roll-on freight, and a sand pit 5.72 miles out that employs 42 people. One of the seven yards carries the name of the city across the river, which is a naming crossover rather than a filing error.

That refinery does not make what a refinery usually makes. Calumet Specialty Products processes crude into lubricating oils, solvents and waxes for consumer, industrial and automotive use rather than principally into transport fuel, and it held an operating capacity of 65,000 barrels per calendar day at the last figure recorded, in 2014.

So the outbound here is drums, totes and packaged product as much as it is bulk, which puts box trucks and flatbeds on lanes that a fuel refinery would run entirely in tankers. That figure is eleven years old and the current capacity was not established, so it is given as what was recorded rather than as what is true today.

Between that, a Caddo Parish sand pit running 42 employees and seven yards under two carriers, the fleet mix here is wider than the rail count alone would suggest.

Whichever of those a truck loads at, what it may carry away is set in one place.

Louisiana does not write one gross figure and stop. Under La. R.S. § 32:386 a combination that carries a tridem or a quadrum axle may run to 88,000 lb on a state-maintained highway, and the interstate system is carved out of that allowance. The condition is the vehicle’s own configuration rather than its cargo or its route — more axles under the load, more gross on top of it.

The harvest permits sit above that again. Off the interstate the harvest-season permit reaches 86,600 lb under the same section; on the interstate a separate permit under La. R.S. § 32:387 reaches 83,400 lb, for farm and forest products in their natural state along with cotton seed moving from the gin to the mill, raw sugar from the mill to the refinery, and brewer’s grain. Sugarcane runs on its own permit to 100,000 lb, and that one has a hardware condition: the trailer carries an additional single axle, six for the combination, so a five-axle rig does not qualify however it is loaded.

Most states that grant a heavy commodity allowance switch it off at the interstate and leave it there. Louisiana instead writes a second, lower permit that works on the interstate, and 83,400 lb is above the federal figure rather than below it.

La. R.S. § 32:386, § 32:387 and § 32:387.7. Information, not legal advice, and only as current as the date the rule file was last verified.

Beyond the weight, the paperwork is what decides whether a sale closes this week or next month.

The ordinary case is short: we need a title. If it is lost there is a duplicate, and if the truck is old enough that it never had one there is a route for that too. Neither stops a sale and neither is unusual.

One Louisiana rule is worth knowing before you read anything about a branded title. The total-loss test is written as a percentage of retail value — 75 per cent — and it names the valuation source rather than leaving it open. Most states say “actual cash value” and let an adjuster decide what that is. Naming the handbook makes the threshold something a seller holding the same handbook can check.

Louisiana is a civil-law state and its parishes are not counties with a different name on them. Its lien and title vocabulary does not always map onto the other forty-nine, so a term you were given in another state is worth checking here rather than assuming.

The 75 per cent figure and the named handbook come from a secondary summary of Louisiana total-loss law, not from the section text; the Louisiana rule file records the salvage threshold as not yet extracted from the § itself. Information, not legal advice.

Those lanes all come to us. Day cabs and road tractors off the Kansas City Southern and Union Pacific drayage. Tankers and box trucks off the Calumet Specialty Products work. Dump trucks and aggregate haulers off the Caddo Parish pits, plus the flatbeds, service bodies, rollbacks and the pickups and work trucks the crews run.

Whichever of those you have, the offer does not change. We buy all of them.

Those are the trucks. These are the things people ask before they call.

• 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. A missing mirror is nothing.
• It is across the river. Same answer?Same answer. Caddo Parish and Bossier Parish are one run for us, and a bridge has never changed what we do.
• Will you come out to Shreveport?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. Whichever suits the week you are having.
• It hauled product for the refinery. Does that matter?Tell us what it carried and whether the tank has been cleaned. It changes what we can do with it, not whether we are interested.
• How far out do you come?All of Caddo Parish, over into Bossier Parish and out toward Webster Parish. Distance has never been the problem.

Beyond a Kansas City Southern contract ending, the reasons are the ordinary ones. A driver who retired and left a tractor with the family. A pit job that finished. A truck bought for a run that turned out to belong to somebody else.

Yards around Midway Avenue and over the Bossier Parish line usually have one sitting.

Most of those are not happy reasons and we do not treat them like they are. Somebody wants a straight answer and the truck gone by the end of the week. That is what we are for.