The operation
One yard, attached by fallback, and its tag names its railroad
One rail-yard row is attached to this township and there is no second. Its coordinate lies 1.13 miles from the centroid and it was attached by nearest-centroid fallback rather than by falling inside the place, which means the point belongs to no incorporated municipality at all. It is filed under Union County.
The name carries a carrier tag in brackets and the carrier field on the same row carries that same value, so the two agree — which is the clean case, and not always what happens in this data. What the initials stand for was not determined and is not guessed at here; an expansion invented to fill the gap would read exactly as well as a true one.
Seventeen rows in this county, and this is the quiet end of it
Those seventeen rows are what Union County holds in this data, second only to the 24 filed under Hudson County: ten rail yards, five liquid-bulk terminals and two intermodal ramps, most of them clustered around Port Elizabeth and the Bayway. Not one of the seventeen reports an employee count, because none of them is a mine and the mine record is the only source here that carries one.
This row sits at the quiet end of that. The terminals and the container ramps are all down on the waterfront, and this yard is inland, on its own, 1.13 miles out, serving a township rather than a port. Same county, entirely different working day, and the trucks reflect it.
What runs here
Township work, commuter ground, and towns with pages
So whatever you drive, the offer does not change — we buy all of them. On commuter ground with one yard on it that means box trucks and straight trucks on delivery first, then service bodies and work trucks off the trades, dump trucks and flatbeds off the small site work, day cabs on the runs down to the port, and pickups.
What the yard handles could not be determined from any source read for this work and is not described. A township like this one sells trucks that belonged to somebody who used them, rather than to a fleet that cycled them.
Three more Union County towns hold pages of their own, and two of them carry most of those seventeen rows between them: Elizabeth with eight and Linden with five. Rahway holds a yard too, though the row for it is filed under Middlesex County rather than 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 Cranford
Cranford, Rahway, Linden and the Union County towns inland of the port. Tell us what you have and we will take it from there.
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