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

One rail-yard row is attached here, 1.70 miles from the middle of the village, worked by the short line that carries this town’s name in its own. It is called Global Ethanol, after an ethanol producer, and it is the fourth ethanol point in this research.

That name earns its place because the facility type says what touches the road at both ends. An ethanol plant takes corn in by farm truck and ships product out by tank car and tank truck. So a site like this generates two quite different fleets — grain hauling in season, and tank work all year.

Two cautions, and they are the record’s own. Whether that company still operates the plant was not determined, so the name is carried as unverified. And the coordinate falls outside any incorporated boundary, so this was simply the nearest place holding a page.

Both of those fleets run under a state weight statute with an unusual seasonal shape, and on country roads the seasonal half is the half that decides the year. Michigan reduces maximum axle and wheel loads through March, April and May, when the freeze-thaw cycle leaves the surface at its most vulnerable.

The size of the cut is set by what the road is made of rather than by who maintains it: 25 percent on concrete pavements and concrete-based roads, 35 percent on every other road type. The county road commissions can impose it earlier or lift it early on the weather, and while it is in force no overweight permits are issued at all.

The rest of the year the same statute is the opposite of restrictive, allowing a gross of 164,000 lb on a combination of up to eleven axles. A loaded tank truck is dense enough to reach the axle limits well before the tank is full, so the spring reduction reaches it harder than it reaches light freight.

On paper the rule is one sentence. We need a title — unless the truck is old enough that it never had one. 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. Neither one stops a sale.

Spring restrictions at MCL 257.722 and the Michigan Department of Transportation’s Spring Weight Restriction Bulletin. Information, not legal advice, and only as current as the day it was read.

Those are the trucks we buy, and we buy them all. Farm trucks and grain hauls in season. Tank trucks off work like the Global Ethanol site 1.70 miles out. Dump trucks off the road jobs, flatbeds, day cabs, box trucks, straight trucks and rollbacks out of the trades, and service bodies, work trucks and pickups off crews across Lenawee County.

Whatever you drive, the offer doesn’t change. We buy all of them.

Out here we often do not need to come at all: we buy remotely and arrange the tow, which saves everybody a day. We can also come to you and drive it away or tow it, and you are welcome to bring it to us if you are passing anyway.

• 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 a tank truck and I am told that is awkward.It is not awkward for us, and around a site like Global Ethanol it is ordinary. Tell us what it last carried and whether it has been cleaned, because that changes the handling rather than the answer.
• Do you really come out this far?We do, and often we do not need to. A lot of trucks around Lenawee County are bought remotely and towed, with nobody visiting at all.
• It has been behind the barn for three years.Ordinary, and not a disqualifier. Tell us how long it has stood and whether anything has come off it. Standing still is what finds the seals, the batteries and the brakes.
• How am I paid?Cash or electronic payment. That is the whole list.
• What about the title?We need one unless the truck is old enough that it never had one. A lost title has a counter replacement; where none exists there is a bonded route.

Beyond a season that did not pay, the reasons are the personal ones. Retiring. A medical that went the wrong way. A farm changing hands. A tank truck or a grain hauler standing in a Lenawee County yard out towards the Global Ethanol rails, that has not turned a wheel since the last harvest it was needed for — and it is still insured.

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.