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The one operation attached to this town is an Army Reserve forces training area, recorded as active, 2.69 miles from the middle of the town. Its coordinate reverse-geocodes to Worcester County while this town sits in Middlesex County.

There is a second oddity in that filing, and it is the more interesting one. Devens — the redeveloped former post the training area is named for — is itself a place holding a page in this list, and this row does not use it. Whether the two describe the same ground was not established, but the nearer, better-matched place exists and was passed over.

It is the fourth time that mechanism has been recorded in this research, and it happens in a state with 94.4 per cent page coverage — so it is not a gap in the list, it is a row reaching past a page that is already there.

That ground is filed under more names than it has facilities. A rail yard named for the post is 4.85 miles north-east of this training area and attached to the redeveloped place itself; a National Guard site 5.06 miles north-east is attached to Ayer; and this row is attached here.

None of the three is wrong about where it is. All three are simply filed against whichever page-bearing place a given process reached for, and the results do not agree because the underlying ground spans several towns and a county line.

So the practical position is straightforward even where the records are not. This is one working area, the roads through it cross those lines constantly, and we cover all of it regardless of which town a record names.

Whatever the file calls this ground, the trucks working it answer to the Commonwealth’s figures.

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 weight rules apply to a fleet that is mid-sized rather than heavy. A reserve training area is used periodically rather than daily and supports no resident population, so what it puts on the road is contractor and maintenance work: grounds, buildings, roads and ranges.

That work is contracted out, so the equipment belongs to local trades businesses and turns over when a term ends. It is the same pattern across all three records on this ground — the training area 2.69 miles off, the yard 4.85 miles north-east of it and the guard site 5.06 miles beyond that — ordinary commercial trucks, on contract, coming off together on a date.

The paperwork is the same in both counties this ground touches, 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 contracts set the mix, on ground running from the training area 2.69 miles off out to the rail yard 4.85 miles north-east and the guard site 5.06 miles beyond that. Work trucks and service bodies off the trades, tri-axle dumps and flatbeds off construction, box trucks and straight trucks on distribution, plus pickups.

If a truck came off a contract rather than off a breakdown, that is worth saying first — it usually means documentation exists and it usually means there is more than one. 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.
• My address says Devens or Ayer rather than this town.It makes no difference. Three records on that ground are filed under three different names across two counties, and the training area 2.69 miles from here is one of them.
• Several came off the same contract. Do you take more than one?Yes, and it is usually easier. Tell us how many and where they are standing — the ground between the training area 2.69 miles off and the guard site 5.06 miles north-east is all one working area to us.
• 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 contract ends are the most common single reason, and they release several trucks at once rather than one.

Beyond that the ordinary set — retirements, estates, a trades business winding down, and the truck that has stood since the last job it was needed for. Between the training area 2.69 miles off and the yard 4.85 miles north-east of it, they come up steadily.