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

Daviess County maintains 141 bridges of its own and 31 of them are rated below legal loads — 22.0 per cent, 29th of the 109 Missouri counties that maintain at least twenty structures, against a state rate of 12.7. That is a lot of restricted crossings on a rural network.

Inside ten miles of the quarry there are 110 structures, 20 carrying a posting and 16 rated below legal loads, fifteen of the sixteen county-maintained, the nearest 3.78 miles out.

The cap those crossings set is more forgiving than the count suggests. The lowest that still admits a loaded commercial vehicle is rated about 14.9 US tons — roughly 2.5 tonnes of stone over the tare of an empty tandem dump. So the network here constrains which way a load goes far more than it constrains how much the truck carries.

That pattern holds across the company running these pits. Trager Limestone holds three sites across two adjoining north Missouri counties — two here in Daviess and one over in Caldwell — and all three sit on the same kind of network: 108 to 111 structures within ten miles, 13 to 16 of them failing on load, and ten to fifteen of those the county’s own. Caldwell restricts 29 of 159 and Daviess 31 of 141, ranking 43rd and 29th.

Here it does not matter much which of the three sites a truck worked, because they are alike.

So for once the company name is a reasonable guide to a machine’s road history: a comfortable cap on a crowded county network. The two operations here record 12 and 9 employees, and the nearer one sits 1.47 miles from the middle of town.

• Less of a problem here than most places. The three sites this operator runs sit on very similar road networks, so the machine’s history is much the same wherever in the company it worked.