Sell your semi truck for cash in Ash Grove the easy and convenient way

Phenix Marble works dimension limestone here with 9 employees, under the operator name Phenix Quarry. Dimension stone is cut in blocks and sold by the piece rather than crushed and sold by the tonne, so it moves on flatbeds with strapping rather than in a dump body — a different trade using the same rock.

That cut stone travels a network with almost nothing posted against it. Greene County maintains 221 bridges of its own and restricts two — 0.9 per cent, last of the 109 Missouri counties that maintain at least twenty structures. The county owns a large network and keeps it open.

The contrast next door is severe. Lawrence County, immediately west, maintains 33 structures and restricts twelve — 36.4 per cent and fifth of the same 109. A forty-fold range across one county line, and this town sits at the western edge of the easy side of it.

So a load leaving here eastward meets almost nothing, and the same load heading west enters one of the five most restricted county networks in Missouri. For a machine that has worked this end of the county for years, the wear is highway wear rather than route-picking wear, and that shows in the running gear.

Dump trucks and aggregate haulers off the crushed.

• Worth saying, because the difference is stark. This county restricts under one per cent of what it maintains and the county immediately west restricts over a third.