Oakland County
A manufacturer-derived name, and a twin thirty miles away
One rail-yard row sits here, 0.47 miles from the middle of town and squarely inside it, worked by CSX Transportation. Its name comes from a vehicle manufacturer rather than from a place or a function.
There is a second row of the same name about thirty miles away, under a different carrier, down in the Downriver end of the metro. The two are not connected in any way — they are two facilities that happen to share a manufacturer-derived name, and nothing in the record links them. Anything matching on names alone would pair them, and it would be wrong.
What moves through this one could not be determined from anything we read. One yard, correctly filed, half a mile from the middle of an Oakland County town, is the whole of the local record.
Michigan weight law
A statute that counts axles, not trucks
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.
What we buy here
Those are the trucks we buy, whatever shape they are in. Day cabs and road tractors of the kind that serve a yard 0.47 miles out. Dump trucks off the road work and the landscaping. Flatbeds, box trucks, straight trucks and rollbacks out of the trades. 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. Novi, Walled Lake, Milford and the rest of the county are all routine.
We buy complete trucks. If the engine, transmission, doors, rear ends, drive shafts, wheels or anything under the hood have been removed, we can’t buy it. Small things — a missing bumper — are fine.
Straight answers
The questions we get asked in Wixom
- 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.
- It is a service truck rather than a big rig.Then it is exactly the sort of thing we buy across Oakland County. The body on the back is part of what we are buying, not clutter to strip off first.
- How far out do you come?All of the county and well past it — Novi, Walled Lake, Milford, and down to the yards 0.47 miles from the middle of town. Often we do not need to come 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.
- 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.
Why people call
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 service truck standing behind a shop in Oakland County near the rails 0.47 miles from the middle of town, that has not moved since the crew was let go 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.
Michigan weight rules read from MCL 257.722 and Michigan Department of Transportation publications in August 2026 — verify with the Michigan Department of Transportation and the Michigan Secretary of State before acting on them. Node facts from the city-pages node list, county attribution from its own county field.