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

Two operations are filed to this town and they sit 2.98 miles apart. One is a surface quarry worked by S M Lorusso & Sons Inc, taking crushed and broken stone with 12 employees on the books at the Mine Safety and Health Administration; the other is a rail yard under CSX Transportation, 2.45 miles from the middle of the town.

They are also in different counties, which is worth stating because it is the kind of thing that looks like an error and is not. The quarry’s coordinate falls in Suffolk County and the mine inspector records the nearest town as West Roxbury; the yard’s falls in Norfolk County, as this town does. Three miles here crosses a boundary that most road work ignores entirely.

What the yard handles could not be determined from any source read for this research, and its coordinate is the mean of a track polyline’s vertices rather than a surveyed facility point.

That quarry is the part that decides the local fleet. Crushed stone is bulk, dense and cheap relative to its weight, so it cannot travel far before the haulage costs more than the product — which means short runs, many of them, all by road.

A surface operation reporting 12 employees therefore puts far more truck movements on the road per person than the crew size suggests. That is tri-axle dump and aggregate work running local, over the 2.98 miles between the face and the rail yard, and it is exactly the equipment that reaches its axle limits with the body well short of full.

It is a surface operation, so the federal training rule at Part 46 applies — site-specific hazard awareness training for over-the-road delivery drivers before working at each mine site. The silica rule sets a permissible exposure limit of 50 micrograms per cubic metre, stated as a property of the material rather than as a measurement of this site.

That short-run dense loading is exactly the case the Commonwealth’s axle rules decide and its gross figure does not.

Under M.G.L. c. 90 § 19A a vehicle of three or more axles may travel a public way without a permit at up to 80,000 lb with its load, and a two-axle truck at up to 46,000 lb. That two-axle allowance is the highest recorded across thirty-one batches of this research — against Pennsylvania’s 38,000 lb on the same configuration — and a two-axle truck is exactly what does local delivery, refuse, dump and utility work without ever seeing an interstate.

The catch sits one line further down. No axle may carry more than 22,400 lb, and where axles are spaced less than six feet apart that drops to 18,000 lb. New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island and New Hampshire all set the same 22,400 lb single-axle figure against a federal 20,000, so the region is consistent; the short-spacing cut is the part that is not. It is 10 per cent under the national figure and 20 per cent under the regional one, and short-coupled axle groups are exactly what a dense load encourages.

M.G.L. c. 90 § 19A. Information, not legal advice.

Those loads run into a town that sits right on the boundary of the dense inner city. This is Norfolk County ground immediately outside Boston, with the road network of a suburb and the traffic of an urban fringe.

It is why the equipment here spans both. Aggregate and construction work off the quarry face in Suffolk County and the sites around it, and box trucks, work trucks, service bodies and pickups off the retail, distribution and trades that a dense residential town runs on — all of it inside the 2.45 miles between the centre and the rail yard.

The paperwork does not care which side of the county line a truck sits on, and it is where most sales stall.

There is no statutory total-loss percentage here. Under M.G.L. c. 90D § 1 a total loss salvage motor vehicle is one stolen and unrecovered, or wrecked, destroyed or damaged to such an extent that the owner — or the insurer, where the vehicle is insured — considers it uneconomical to repair. The working test applied is repair and labour cost plus the vehicle’s value as scrap, measured against its value before the loss.

Two things follow from that for a truck rather than for a car. Scrap value is a large fraction of a truck’s worth and a small fraction of a car’s, so a formula reaches the total-loss line at a lower repair figure than a fixed percentage does, and the gap widens as the vehicle gets heavier. And the seventy-five per cent figure that circulates is an insurer’s internal guideline rather than the Commonwealth’s rule — anyone told their truck is a total loss at seventy-five per cent has been quoted a practice, not a law.

M.G.L. c. 90D § 1. Information, not legal advice.

Those two operations set the mix, between the S M Lorusso quarry face with its 12 employees and the yard 2.98 miles from it. Tri-axle dumps and aggregate haulers off the stone, day cabs and road tractors on the short runs, flatbeds off construction, plus box trucks, work trucks and pickups.

A dump that has run aggregate on short local lanes has worked its brakes and driveline far harder than the mileage suggests, because the cycles are short and the loads are heavy every time. Tell us the hours as well. 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.

• 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.
• It hauled crushed stone for years. Does that put you off?No. The S M Lorusso face here runs 12 employees and the trucks serving it earn their wear quickly, which we expect rather than hold against them.
• My yard is over in West Roxbury, not the town. Still fine?Yes. The quarry filed to this town is on that side and in Suffolk County, 2.98 miles from the rail yard on this side, and we work both.
• What about the title?We need one unless the truck is old enough that it never had one. Lost has a counter replacement; a lien needs the release.
• Do you have to come out?No. 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.

Those quarry and construction cycles are part of it. A contract finishes and the dumps specified for it come off the road together rather than one at a time.

Beyond that the ordinary set — retirements, estates, redevelopment of a yard, and the truck that has stood since the last job it was needed for. Between the quarry face in Suffolk County and the yard 2.45 miles from the centre, they come up steadily.