The operation
Five yards on the meadow, and a container ramp beside them
Five rail-yard rows are attached to this town and an intermodal ramp is entered separately. Three of the five share one name: Meadows at 0.82 miles from the centroid, Meadows Maintenance at 1.30 and Meadows Intermodal Facility at 1.59, all three under Conrail.
The other two are the South Kearny pair, at 1.02 and 2.33 miles. Everything on that list is inside two and a half miles of the centre, which is unusual: the yards are not out on the edge of the town, the town is in among the yards.
Those two South Kearnys are one site under two carriers
Those last two rows are the same name twice, one of them with a carrier tag bolted on in brackets. Elsewhere in this data that shape has been ruled a straight duplicate — one facility recorded twice — and here the two carrier fields also differ: Conrail on the plain row at 1.02 miles from the centroid, New Jersey Rail Carrier on the tagged one at 2.33 miles, which is exactly what the tag names.
So the bracket is doing real work. It identifies a using carrier the other row does not name, which is the reading arrived at from a cluster elsewhere in the same list. The three Meadows rows are a different problem and are left open: their added words describe function rather than a carrier or a facility number, and no rule in this data reaches that shape.
What runs here
Yard traffic, recovery work, and towns with their own pages
So whatever you drive, the offer does not change — we buy all of them. Where five yards and a ramp sit together that means day cabs and road tractors first, then the rollbacks and wreckers that work the approaches, dump trucks and flatbeds off the fill and the construction, box trucks on distribution, and the pickups and service bodies behind the lot of it.
What any of those yards handle could not be determined from any source read for this work, and none of it is claimed. Recovery is worth a word, though, because the weight rules below treat a wrecker differently from everything else on the road.
We buy in Harrison and Jersey City, both in Hudson County like this town, and in Newark over in Essex County. Each of the three has a page of its own.
New Jersey weight law
The axle limit is higher off the interstate than on it
That is state law rather than anything local, and New Jersey writes it in a way that catches people out. N.J.S.A. § 39:3-84 caps total gross weight at 80,000 lb, caps the weight imposed by the wheels of any one axle at 22,400 lb, and caps consecutive axles at 34,000 lb where their centres are 40 inches or more and not more than 96 inches apart.
Those 22,400 pounds are the part worth knowing. On a highway that is part of the National Interstate System the single-axle limitation does not apply and the federal provision governs instead, and that one sets 20,000 lb. So the state figure is the looser of the two rather than the tighter, and a truck legal on a county road here can be over the limit the moment it joins the interstate.
Two allowances sit beside it. § 39:3-84.1 limits a solid waste vehicle to the gross weight shown on its registration certificate — a limit that is a property of the paperwork rather than of the road — and lets a vehicle fuelled primarily by natural gas run to 82,000 lb under 23 U.S.C. Heavy-duty tow trucks may reach 150,000 lb gross combined weight while towing, and the dimensional and weight restrictions do not apply at all to a combination that includes a disabled vehicle, up to 75 miles from where it stopped. That last one is the rule a dead truck leaves under.
One caution about the same section. It is headed routes, certain, prohibited, and § 39:3-84.3 sets fines for operating on a prohibited route. Which routes those are, and on what basis, was not determined for this work and is not written here. A weight figure alone does not describe what New Jersey permits: the road may be closed to the vehicle whatever it weighs.
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 Kearny
Kearny, Harrison, Jersey City and the yards on the meadow. Tell us what you have and we will take it from there.
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