Sell your semi truck for cash in Skidway Lake

Skidway Lake is in Ogemaw County, and the census counts 3,008 people here, at 266 per square mile, with a median age of 42.1 years.

What we know about Skidway Lake 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.

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)).

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)).

Those two rules meet 3,008 people in Skidway Lake, Ogemaw County, at a household median around $39,265 and a density of 266 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.

Do you actually come to Ogemaw 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? 3,008 people at 266 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.