The operation
One transfer yard, and the word transfer is the whole description
One rail-yard row is attached to this borough and there is no second. It runs under the New York, Susquehanna & Western Railroad, and its coordinate lies 1.17 miles from the centroid, attached by nearest-centroid fallback rather than by falling inside the place.
The name on it ends in the word transfer, which is the only thing in the record that describes what the site does: freight changes mode or changes hands there. What it changes into, and from what, could not be determined from any source read for this work.
Five rows in this county, and three of them share one borough
That row is one of five filed under Bergen County, and the distribution is lopsided: three of the five sit together in one borough down the line — two rail yards 260 feet apart under two different railroads, plus the container ramp beside them. The fifth is a liquid-bulk terminal elsewhere in the county.
So this county’s record is one cluster, one terminal and this yard, and this yard is the outlier. Being the only row for miles is not a disadvantage when the thing being bought is a truck: it means whoever owns it here owns it outright rather than running it in somebody else’s fleet.
What runs here
Transfer traffic, borough trades, and towns with pages
So whatever you drive, the offer does not change — we buy all of them. Around a transfer yard and a dense borough that means box trucks and straight trucks first, then day cabs on the short runs, service bodies and work trucks off the trades, dump trucks and flatbeds off the small site work, and pickups.
Nothing here describes what moves through the yard, because nothing in the source says. That is a gap in the record rather than a quiet site, and the two are not the same fact.
Two more Bergen County towns hold pages of their own: Ridgefield, which carries three of the five rows, and Oakland, which carries the terminal. Little Ferry has a page as well.
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.
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Elmwood Park, Ridgefield and the Bergen County boroughs. Tell us what you have and we will take it from there.
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