Ouachita Parish
Where Sterlington sits
Sterlington is in Ouachita Parish, and the census counts 2,229 people here, at 787 per square mile, with a median age of 35.9 years.
What we know about Sterlington 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 Sterlington
That rule meets 2,229 people in Sterlington, Ouachita Parish, at a household median around $69,007 and a density of 787 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 Sterlington
Do you actually come to Ouachita 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? 2,229 people at 787 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.