The operation
One row on the list, and it is a state-run yard
One rail-yard row is attached to this place and there is no second. It runs under the state transport department rather than a railroad company, and its coordinate lies 0.97 miles from the centroid — inside the place, so the match is by containment and not by any fallback.
A single publicly held row is a thin fact and it is the honest total. There is no quarry here, no terminal, no port; the whole industrial record of this place in this data is one yard, under half an hour’s walk from the middle of Somerset County suburbia.
That row is named Raritan, and Raritan is where it sits
So the name and the ground agree with each other here, and only the paperwork is out of step. The row is called Raritan, and its coordinate falls inside Raritan borough, which is a separate municipality holding a page of its own — while the attachment points at this place instead.
That is a cleaner failure than most. Elsewhere in this data a name disagrees with the ground, or two names disagree with each other, and untangling it takes an argument. Here two of the three signals point the same way, which is as close to self-correcting as a row of this kind gets. So the 0.97 miles is measured from the wrong centroid, both places sit inside Somerset County, and the row is written down and left alone because both towns are covered either way.
For scale: this is one of six rail-yard rows filed under Somerset County, alongside four crushed-stone quarries reporting 153 employees between them — the Kingston Quarry carries 72 of those and Stavola Construction Materials another 36. Two more of the six yards are the pair at Bound Brook and South Bound Brook, 0.28 miles apart under two different carriers. Ten rows in the county and this is the only one with nothing else beside it.
What runs here
Suburban trades, valley runs, and towns with their own pages
So whatever you drive, the offer does not change — we buy all of them. In a place like this one that means service bodies and work trucks off the trades first, then box trucks and straight trucks on delivery, dump trucks and flatbeds off the landscaping and the small site work, day cabs running the valley, and pickups.
A truck sold out of a place with one yard and no quarry has usually worked for a small outfit, and small outfits keep trucks longer. Age is not a problem at this end; missing parts are.
Raritan is the borough that row actually stands in, 0.97 miles from the centroid this page is written from, and it holds a page of its own. So do Bound Brook and Manville — all three in Somerset County with this one.
New Jersey paperwork
No percentage in the law, and photographs before any repair
That same title governs what damage does to a truck’s paperwork, and New Jersey decides it by judgement rather than by arithmetic. Under § 39:10-31 and § 39:10-32 a salvage certificate of title issues where a vehicle has been reported stolen or has suffered damage enough to make repair economically impractical; the holder of the certificate of ownership surrenders it, and what comes back permits transfer only as a salvage motor vehicle. There is no percentage and no valuation base anywhere in the provision.
So the figure people quote is insurer practice rather than law, and this page will not print it as a threshold. New Jersey sits in the judgement group with Arizona, California and Montana, and unlike New Hampshire it carries no alternative percentage limb at all, so no age window applies to it either: a truck of any age can be brought inside the rule by that judgement.
The rebuild side carries a requirement most states do not. New Jersey directs the owner restoring a salvage vehicle to photograph it before repairs, showing each side, and to keep before and after photographs; a reconstructed, rebuilt or repaired salvage vehicle is then inspected at a State inspection facility under N.J.A.C. 13:21-22. The obligation lands on the owner and it lands before any work is done, which is earlier than in any other state read for this project, so a truck repaired here without photographs may be harder to retitle than the same truck repaired the same way elsewhere.
The rule people ask about next asks nothing of them. New Jersey has adopted Advanced Clean Trucks, alongside California, Colorado, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington, and it sets manufacturer sales requirements for zero-emission medium and heavy duty vehicles rather than obligations on the owner of a truck that already exists. Its status is under challenge following the June 2025 congressional repeal of California federal waivers, and no consequence for any individual vehicle follows from it.
Questions we actually get
The four that come up every time
Does it have to run? No. But 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. A missing bumper is nothing.
Do I need the title? We need a title, unless the truck is old enough that it never had one. If it is lost, that is a replacement through the Motor Vehicle Commission and we will walk you through it. If there is a lien on it, say so on the form — that is why the question asks whether the title is in hand rather than whether you own the truck, because those are different situations and they go different ways.
What if it has been in a wreck? Tell us what happened and we will look at it as it is. New Jersey sets no percentage: § 39:10-32 makes it a judgement about whether repair is economically impractical, so nothing is decided by a formula before we have seen the truck. If you have already started work on it, keep the photographs.
How does it get collected, and how am I paid? There is no clock on any of this. We can come to you and drive it away, come to you and tow it, buy it remotely and arrange the tow, or you can bring it to us. Payment is cash or electronic payment.
Sell your truck in Bradley Gardens
Bradley Gardens, Raritan, Manville and the towns along the valley. Tell us what you have and we will take it from there.
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