Sell your semi truck for cash in Presque Isle Harbor

This is the one page in the lane that has to cover two places at once, and it is better to say so than to quietly pick one. Michigan has two harbours of this name. One is in Presque Isle County, on Lake Huron. The other is in Marquette County, on Lake Superior. They are 211 miles apart.

In the record they are told apart only by capitalisation — one is written in title case and the other in capitals — and all four rows across the two of them end up carrying the same city slug. Any process that treats the name as an identifier merges two harbours on two different Great Lakes into one place.

So if you have arrived here from a search, you may be at either end of the state, and this page is not going to guess which. What we can tell you is that we buy in both, and that neither one is too far.

Both of those harbours are in the part of the state where the seasonal half of the weight statute matters most. 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, reached by allowing more axles each carrying less rather than heavier ones. Stone and aggregate are dense enough to reach the axle limits with the body well short of full, so the spring reduction bites harder on them than on light freight.

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 the trucks we buy, at either harbour, whatever shape they turn up in. Dump trucks and stone 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 — on Lake Huron or on Lake Superior alike.

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 either end of the state, 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.
• Which of the two harbours do you actually cover?Both. One is in Presque Isle County on Lake Huron and the other is in Marquette County on Lake Superior, 211 miles apart, and the answer is the same at either. Tell us roughly where you are and we will take it from there.
• Will you actually come out here?Usually we do not need to. Trucks at either end are bought remotely and towed, with nobody visiting at all. Distance has never stopped a sale.
• It has sat outside through a lot of winters.Expected on either lake, 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 on Lake Huron or on Lake Superior — and 211 miles is a long way to guess which — 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.