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

Two rail-yard rows are attached to this town, both under the same carrier, and they carry different names so there is no duplicate to untangle. One sits 0.91 miles from the middle of town and genuinely is here.

The other, 2.68 miles out, is not. Its coordinate falls inside Burton, which is a city in its own right with a page of its own, so the row is filed under one town and stands in another. That is the ordinary condition of this dataset around the Flint suburbs rather than an error to chase.

What either of them handles could not be determined from any source we read. Two yards under one carrier, one of them next door, is the whole of the local record — and we would rather show you its edges than write past them.

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. An eleven-axle Michigan combination is a physically different vehicle rather than a heavier one, and one built for these weights may not be configured for anywhere else. Tell us the axle count early and we will know what we are looking at.

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 local tractors of the kind that serve a yard 0.91 miles out. Dump trucks off the road work and the gravel. Flatbeds, box trucks, straight trucks and rollbacks out of the trades. Service bodies, work trucks and pickups off crews. None of those is a Genesee County speciality — they are everywhere — and that is rather the point.

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. Burton, Flint and the townships around are all ordinary for 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. Rust is not a disqualifier.
• Am I in Grand Blanc or Burton?One of the two rail yards on this page has the same problem — it is filed here and stands 2.68 miles away in Burton. It makes no difference to us at all.
• 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.
• It only ever ran local.Then the odometer understates the work. Short heavy runs, of the kind a yard 0.91 miles from the middle of town generates, put their wear into brakes and drivelines rather than into miles.
• 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 tractor standing on a yard in Genesee County between here and the rails 2.68 miles out in Burton, that has not moved since the work stopped 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.