Sell your semi truck for cash in De Tour Village the easy and convenient way

Two petroleum-port rows resolve to this village, and they are 18.96 miles apart in two different counties — one in Chippewa County and one in Mackinac County. That is a long way for two rows attached to one small place, and there is a reason for it.

An automated check briefly paired them as one facility, and it did so only because both rows carry a placeholder where the operator name should be. Two blanks looked like a match. A better check, working on how far apart things actually are, threw the pairing out at nineteen miles — and the record keeps the episode written down as a false positive because the two checks disagreed.

The assignment itself is defensible: this village is the mainland ferry landing for Drummond Island, which does not appear in the city list at all. So the rows have to go somewhere and this is the sensible somewhere. What either port handles could not be determined from anything we read.

Whatever moves off those docks moves under a state weight statute whose seasonal half matters more up here than anywhere else in it. Michigan reduces maximum axle and wheel loads through March, April and May, when the freeze-thaw cycle leaves roads at their most vulnerable, and northern routes stay restricted longest of all.

The cut is set by what the road is made of rather than by who owns it: 25 percent on concrete pavements and concrete-based roads, 35 percent on every other road type, with a 35 mph limit on some vehicles while it is in force. No overweight permits are issued at all in the meantime.

The rest of the year the same statute is the most generous in the country, allowing a gross of 164,000 lb on a combination of up to eleven axles. So a truck that has worked out of here has spent a quarter of every year deliberately underloaded, and crawling while it did, which is easier on it than the headline figure suggests.

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 trucks we buy, whatever shape they turn up in. Dump trucks and aggregate haulers off the dock and quarry work. Day cabs and road tractors. Flatbeds, box trucks, straight trucks and rollbacks out of the trades, and service bodies, work trucks and pickups off crews across Chippewa County and over into Mackinac County.

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

Out here the honest lead is the remote one: we buy the truck remotely and arrange the tow, and nobody visits at all. That is not a fallback at the top of the Upper Peninsula, it is usually the realistic path. We can also come to you and drive it away or tow it, and you are welcome to bring it south if you are going 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.
• Will you actually come out here?Usually we do not need to. Almost everything at this end of Chippewa County is bought remotely and towed, with nobody visiting at all. Distance has never stopped a sale.
• The truck is over on Drummond Island.Then tell us that early, because the ferry is part of the plan rather than a problem — this village is the mainland landing for it. It changes the arrangements, not the answer.
• It has sat outside through a lot of winters.Expected up here, and not a disqualifier. Tell us how long and whether anything has come off it. Cold and salt find brake lines and air systems first.
• 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 those is usually why the phone rings. Retiring. A medical that went the wrong way. A season that ended and never started again. A dump truck standing behind a shed somewhere in Chippewa County between the two dock roads, 18.96 miles apart across the county line, that has not moved in two years 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.