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

One rail-yard row is attached here, operated by Canadian National, 3.62 miles from the middle of this very small place, with a coordinate that falls outside any incorporated boundary. This was simply the nearest place holding a page.

It has a twin. Another row sits 1.55 miles away under the same carrier, with the same name plus a word naming a job, and the two are a plant siding and a finished-vehicle ramp at one site rather than one facility recorded twice. They are filed under two different towns, which is exactly why no check that works within a single city ever pairs them — this is the third case of that shape in the research.

For a seller the practical version is short. There is car-haul work on this ground and general freight beside it, the two are a mile and a half apart, and which town the paperwork says has never mattered to us. What either row handles could not be determined from anything we read.

Whatever runs between them runs under a state weight statute with an unusual seasonal shape. Michigan reduces maximum axle and wheel loads through March, April and May, when the freeze-thaw cycle leaves roads at their most vulnerable, and the size of the cut is set by what the road is made of rather than by who maintains it.

It is 25 percent on concrete pavements and concrete-based roads and 35 percent on every other road type, so two adjacent roads carrying the same traffic can get different reductions. The state and the county road commissions can start it early or lift it early on the weather, and while it is in force no overweight permits are issued at all.

For the other nine months the same statute is the most generous in the country, permitting a gross of 164,000 lb on a combination of up to eleven axles. A loaded car hauler never gets near that — it runs out of length long before weight — so on this particular ground the seasonal rule matters and the headline figure does not.

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 rules cover trucks we are glad to buy. Car haulers and the tractors that pull them, off the ramp 1.55 miles from the siding. Day cabs and road tractors off the Canadian National interchange. Dump trucks off the road work, flatbeds, box trucks, straight trucks and rollbacks out of the trades, and 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. Auburn Hills, Pontiac and the townships between 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.
• The truck is not really in Lake Angelus.Neither is the rail row on this page — 3.62 miles out and outside every incorporated boundary. Oakland County either way, and it has never decided anything for us.
• It is a car hauler with the decks still on it.Leave them on. There is a finished-vehicle ramp on this ground and a multi-car trailer is an entirely ordinary thing for us to buy, decks included.
• 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 those is usually the reason for the call. Retiring. A medical that went the wrong way. A contract that ended and never got replaced. A rig standing on an Oakland County lot near the Canadian National siding 3.62 miles out, 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.