Ionia County
Where Ionia sits
Ionia is in Ionia County, and the census counts 12,753 people here, at 2,357 per square mile, with a median age of 36.6 years.
What we know about Ionia is what the census records and what Michigan law requires; the yards, pits and depots we have researched elsewhere have no entry here. So the question we can actually answer is how a truck gets out, not who else might want it.
Michigan weight law
That road has a number on it
That route out is where the state stops being an abstraction. Michigan sets the ceiling before any local sign lowers it.
In Michigan the maximum gross vehicle weight is 164,000 lb, reached only with eleven properly spaced axles, most of them carrying 13,000 lb each (MDOT, Michigan's Truck-Weight Law and Truck-User Fees).
In Michigan the normal axle weight maximum, axles 9 feet or more apart is 18,000 lb for vehicles equipped with high pressure pneumatic or balloon tires (MCL 257.722(1)(a)).
In Michigan the normal axle weight maximum, axles less than 9 feet but more than 3-1/2 feet apart is 13,000 lb per axle (MCL 257.722(1)(b)).
Michigan paperwork
Then the paperwork has to match the truck
Those limits decide the route. The title decides whether there is a sale at all.
In Michigan the distressed vehicle threshold is 75% or more of the actual cash value of the vehicle in its predamaged condition, in estimated cost of repair including parts and labor (MCL 257.12a).
In Michigan the salvage title threshold is 75% or more but less than 91% of the predamaged actual cash value, in estimated cost of repair including parts and labor (MCL 257.217c(2)(a)(ii)).
In Michigan the scrap title threshold is 91% or more of the predamaged actual cash value, in estimated cost of repair including parts and labor (MCL 257.217c(2)(a)(ii)).
So what leaves Ionia
Those two rules meet 12,753 people in Ionia, Ionia County, at a household median around $63,978 and a density of 2,357 per square mile. A truck sitting in a driveway here is a working asset that has stopped working, whatever the size of the place it stopped in.
What we take out of a place like this is sleeper tractors and day cabs, dump trucks and roll-offs, box trucks and flatbeds, pickups and duallys, and the service and utility bodies that outlive the business that bought them.
Straight answers
The questions we get asked in Ionia
Do you actually come to Ionia County? Yes. 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.
Do you come out to a place this size? 12,753 people at 2,357 per square mile is a place we reach the same way we reach anywhere else. The truck decides whether we buy it, not the population.
How do you pay? We pay either cash or electronically.