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

The research holds one rail-yard row attached here, under Canadian National, 2.32 miles from the middle of town — and its coordinate lands inside Pontiac, which is a city in its own right with a page of its own.

The row’s name is two letters belonging to a vehicle manufacturer. Whether that company operates anything at this location was not determined, so the name is carried as unverified and nothing is built on it. That is the right call: a manufacturer abbreviation on a rail row is a label, not evidence of what happens there now.

So this page is honest about being a page about Michigan and about us rather than about your street. What the yard handles could not be determined either. It has never made any difference to buying a truck in Oakland County.

So the rule to know here is a state one, and it is the rule that makes Michigan trucks different from everybody else’s. The statute permits a maximum gross of 164,000 lb on a combination of up to eleven axles, and eleven has been the ceiling since 1967 — the highest regularly usable truck weight in North America.

It reaches that the opposite way round from how people assume. Michigan’s axle limits are lower than the federal ones: 18,000 lb on a single axle against 20,000, and 32,000 lb on a tandem against 34,000. More axles, each carrying less, because pavement damage climbs with axle load rather than with gross weight.

Which matters when a truck changes hands, because an eleven-axle Michigan combination is a physically different vehicle rather than a heavier one. Then the same statute reduces axle and wheel loads through March, April and May — 25 percent on concrete pavements and concrete-based roads, 35 percent on everything else — so the advantage does not survive the thaw.

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.

Gross and axle limits at MCL 257.722, read from the Michigan Vehicle Code and the Michigan Department of Transportation’s Maximum Legal Truck Loadings and Dimensions. Information, not legal advice.

Those are the trucks we buy, whatever shape they are in. Day cabs and road tractors of the kind that serve a Canadian National yard 2.32 miles out. Dump trucks off the road work and the landscaping. Flatbeds, box trucks, straight trucks and rollbacks out of the trades. Service bodies, work trucks and pickups off crews across Oakland County.

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. You are welcome to bring it to us too. Pontiac, Birmingham, Troy and the rest of the county are all routine.

• 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.
• Am I in Bloomfield Hills or Pontiac?The one rail row on this page cannot answer that either — it is filed here and its coordinate is 2.32 miles away inside the neighbouring city. It makes no difference to us at all.
• It is a service truck rather than a big rig.Then it is exactly the sort of thing we buy in Oakland County. The body on the back is part of what we are buying, not clutter to strip off first.
• It has been parked since the spring restrictions.That happens here more than people outside Michigan expect, and it is not a disqualifier. Tell us how long it has stood and whether anything has come off it.
• 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.

None of that is usually why the phone rings. Retiring. A medical that went the wrong way. A contract that ended and never got replaced. A service truck standing behind a shop in Oakland County between here and the Canadian National rails 2.32 miles out, that has not moved since the crew was let go and is still costing insurance every month.

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.