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

Of the 109 Missouri counties that maintain at least twenty structures of their own, Wayne County ranks second for the share of them that will not carry legal loads. Thirty of its sixty-nine county-maintained crossings fail that test. The state rate is closer to one in eight.

That is not an isolated county. Four of the other nine most restricted networks in the state are its neighbours in the same hill country — Reynolds County at 9 of 24, Douglas County at 9 of 26, Oregon County at 8 of 24 and Bollinger County at 19 of 58. The south-eastern Ozarks are the most route-constrained part of Missouri, and the reason is drainage: deeply dissected uplands need a great many small bridges, and a great many small bridges on a small county budget are what ends up posted.

For a truck the consequence is specific. A load out of this country was routed before it was loaded, and the wear falls on running gear and brakes rather than on the engine. A machine with high hours and a modest odometer is the normal shape here, not a warning sign.

One thing about the pit itself should be said plainly. Colt Rock and Lime records 5 employees and sits 10.02 miles from the middle of Piedmont — in Wayne County, but not in town.

Those county figures hold up at the ten-mile scale. Within ten miles the national bridge file counts 101 structures, of which 24 carry a posting and 23 are coded below legal loads — and eighteen of those twenty-three are county-maintained.

The nearest is 0.98 miles out, which is about as close as this measurement gets anywhere in the state. The lowest operating rating among them is 3.6 metric tonnes, well under the 11.0-tonne tare of an empty tandem dump, so nothing commercial crosses that one loaded or empty.

The lowest that does admit a commercial vehicle is rated 15.3 tonnes, about 16.9 US tons, leaving roughly 4.3 tonnes of stone over the tare against the twenty-five a legal 80,000 lb truck carries. Below 11.0 tonnes nothing commercial crosses; between 11.0 and 36.3 it crosses part loaded; at or above 36.3 a legal load goes over whole.

Twenty-three restricted crossings inside ten miles is not a route problem a driver solves once. It is the daily condition of the job here, and it is the single biggest thing that separates a Wayne County truck from one that ran the flat country north of the river.

Log trucks and timber rigs out of the Ozark forest.

• The pit is out of town rather than in it.That matches what we have. The Mine Safety and Health Administration places this quarry about ten miles from the middle of Piedmont, in the same county but not in the town.