North-west of the city
One yard, filed here because the place next door already has a page
Lochearn is in Baltimore County, and the single row attached to it is a rail yard under CSX Transportation, 1.54 miles from the centroid, attached by nearest-place fallback. Its coordinate does not fall in this place at all — it lands inside the independent city, which holds a page of its own.
That is worth being straight about rather than presenting the yard as local infrastructure. The row is here because this was the nearest named place the data could hang it on, not because the facility sits in this district. What it handles could not be determined from any source read for this research, so no commodity is claimed either.
One caution on the distance itself: a rail-yard coordinate in this data is the mean of a track polyline’s vertices rather than a surveyed facility point, and all 2,459 rail-yard rows carry that derivation. Read 1.54 miles as the middle of a yard rather than as a gate you could drive to.
So the record here is one borrowed row, and the trucks belong to the trades
That leaves this district with no catalogued industry of its own, which is a statement about the research rather than about the place. A dense residential county district generates contracting, landscaping, delivery and maintenance work continuously, and none of it produces the kind of node this research catalogues.
The equipment that comes off that work is service bodies, box trucks, dump trucks and pickups running short congested routes into and out of the city. Trucks here collect idle hours, brake wear and cooling-system heat rather than highway miles, and the odometer describes them badly.
The catalogued heavy freight in Baltimore County is a long way from here — the yards down at Dundalk and Edgemere, and the liquid-bulk terminals on Pennington Avenue. A tractor sold out of this district has usually been running to those places rather than working out of a yard nearby.
Maryland weight law
Eighty thousand pounds, tolerance included, and permits well past it
Those runs are under one state ceiling. Md. Transp. § 24-109 caps overall gross weight at 80,000 lb including any enforcement or statutory tolerances, with 20,000 lb on a single axle and 34,000 lb on a tandem.
Above it the state permits generously by the standard of the states already on file: up to 120,000 lb, and in exceptional cases, following an engineering review, loads exceeding 150,000 lb. For most equipment sold out of a district like this that ceiling never comes up — but it is why a machinery mover based here can take work a neighbouring state would refuse, and it is worth knowing if that is the truck you have.
Md. Code, Transportation § 24-109. Information, not legal advice.
Maryland paperwork
We need a title — unless it never had one
Beyond weight, the paperwork comes down to a single sentence. We need a title unless the truck is old enough that it never had one, and everything after that is a fix rather than a category: a lost title has a counter replacement, and where none exists there is a bonded route.
Where a truck has been branded, Md. Transp. § 13-506 takes a salvage certificate above 75 per cent of fair market value before the damage where the vehicle is repairable, and the rebuilt inspection afterwards is done by the Maryland State Police rather than by a licensed station.
Md. Code, Transportation § 13-506. Information, not legal advice, and only as current as the date the rule was last checked.
What we buy here
All of that is equipment we buy. Service bodies, box trucks and pickups off the trades. Dump trucks and flatbeds off the small contractors. Day cabs, road tractors, rollbacks, straight trucks, and the work trucks that go with a crew. Between the yard 1.54 miles out and the rest of Baltimore County, there is more of it than a residential map suggests.
Whatever you drive, the offer doesn’t change. We buy all of them. We can come to you and drive it away, come to you and tow it, or buy it remotely and arrange the tow with nobody visiting at all.
We buy complete trucks. If the engine, transmission, doors, rear ends, drive shafts, wheels or anything under the hood have been removed, we can’t buy it. Small things — a missing bumper — are fine.
Straight answers
The questions we get asked in Lochearn
- 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 is parked on a residential street.Not a problem. We can arrange the tow without you having to move it, and if the sale is done remotely nobody needs to come out and look at it first.
- I have one truck, not a fleet.That is most of what we buy in a district like this. A single service body or dump truck off one crew is an ordinary sale and does not need to be part of a batch.
- What about the title?We need one unless the truck is old enough that it never had one. Lost titles have a counter replacement; where none exists there’s a bonded route. Neither one stops a sale.
- Do you come out?Yes. We can come to you and drive it away, come to you and tow it, or buy it remotely and arrange the tow with no visit at all.
- How far out do you come?All of Baltimore County, down into the city, and out towards Carroll County. Distance has never stopped a sale.
- How do you pay?Cash or electronic payment, at pickup.
Why people call
Beyond a crew winding down, the reasons are mostly personal ones. Retiring. A medical that went the wrong way. A partnership splitting and the equipment with it. A truck that stopped earning and has been sitting since, where every month it sits is another month of insurance on something that isn’t turning a wheel.
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. In a district whose only catalogued row is 1.54 miles away and in another jurisdiction, the trucks are behind houses and small shops, and Baltimore County holds its share.