We buy trucks in Sumner

Sumner is in Tallahatchie County, and the census counts 326 people here, at 593 per square mile, with a median age of 32 years.

What we know about Sumner is what the census records and what Mississippi 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. Mississippi sets the ceiling before any local sign lowers it.

In Mississippi the maximum gross weight, vehicle or combination is 80,000 lb, subject to the wheel and axle limits of Miss. Code § 63-5-27 (Miss. Code § 63-5-33(2)).

In Mississippi the single axle weight limit is 20,000 lb, measured as the gross weight imposed on the highway by the wheels of any one single axle (Miss. Code § 63-5-27(2)).

In Mississippi the tandem axle weight limit is 34,000 lb, measured as the gross weight imposed on the highway by any two or more consecutive axles whose centers are more than forty inches but not more than ninety-six inches apart (Miss. Code § 63-5-27(3)).

Those limits decide the route. The title decides whether there is a sale at all.

In Mississippi, a salvage vehicle is a motor vehicle an insurance company obtains from the owner as a result of paying a total loss claim resulting from collision, fire, flood, accident, hail damage, trespass, un-recovered theft or other occurrence (35 Miss. Admin. Code Pt. 7, Subpt. 06, Ch. 05, R. 104).

In Mississippi, a vehicle ten years old or older with a value of one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500) or less does not fall under the salvage definition (35 Miss. Admin. Code Pt. 7, Subpt. 06, Ch. 05, R. 104).

In Mississippi, damage requiring the replacement or repair of five or fewer minor component parts leaves a vehicle outside the salvage definition (35 Miss. Admin. Code Pt. 7, Subpt. 06, Ch. 05, R. 104).

Those two rules meet 326 people in Sumner, Tallahatchie County, at a household median around $55,357 and a density of 593 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 Tallahatchie 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? 326 people at 593 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.