The operation
One yard, publicly held, called a port a long way from the sea
One rail-yard row is attached to this place and there is no second. It lies 0.81 miles from the centroid, inside the place, and it runs under the state transport department rather than a railroad company. The name on it is Port Morris, which is a rail name rather than a claim about water; what it is named for was not determined and is not guessed at.
Public ownership of a working yard is not unusual here. Of the 83 rail-yard rows in this state that name a carrier, 10 name the state transport department — second only to Conrail’s 38, and ahead of every private railroad on the list.
Those 21 carriers are a much longer tail than the count suggests
Those 83 rows run under 21 distinct carriers, and the distribution is lopsided in both directions. Conrail and the state between them account for 48 of the 83; at the other end, 11 of the 21 carriers hold exactly one row each. Those eleven include the Cape May Seashore Lines down at the bottom of the state, the Hainesport Industrial Railroad in the pines, and the Port Authority Trans Hudson up on the river.
That matters for a page like this one because it says what kind of place the yard is. A row under a big carrier is one of many; a row under a one-row carrier is somebody’s whole railroad. This one is neither: it is publicly held, which usually means the track is maintained and the traffic belongs to somebody else.
What runs here
Lake country work, and the towns with their own pages
So whatever you drive, the offer does not change — we buy all of them. In lake country with one yard on it 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 site work and the landscaping, day cabs on the runs east, and pickups.
What the yard handles could not be determined from any source read for this work. The counted work in this county is all in the ground rather than on the rail: the Mount Hope Quarry carries 70 employees and the Kenvil Pit and Mill another 28, and no rail row here reports a headcount at all.
Three more Morris County towns hold pages of their own: Dover, Hibernia and Netcong.
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 Landing
Landing, Dover, Netcong and the Morris County lake towns. Tell us what you have and we will take it from there.
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