The operation
One yard, and its railroad owns one row in the whole state
One rail-yard row is attached to this place, 0.52 miles from the centroid and inside the place. Its operator is the Cape May Seashore Lines, and that carrier holds exactly one row anywhere in this state — this one.
Eleven of the 21 carriers on the state’s rail-yard rows are in that position, holding a single row each. It is the opposite end of the scale from Conrail’s 38, and it changes what a yard means: on a one-row railroad the track, the traffic and the trucks all tend to belong to the same small number of people.
Five rows in this county, and four of them dig sand
That yard is the only one of its kind down here. Five rows are filed under Cape May County and the other four are all sand-and-gravel operations, reporting 33 employees between them — no terminal, no port, no industrial-sand plant and no second yard.
So the county’s working record is four pits and a seashore railroad. That is a small enough set to state exactly, and stating it exactly is better than calling the place quiet: four operations with 33 people is not nothing, it is simply not a port county, and the trucks that come out of it are pit trucks and trade trucks rather than drayage.
What runs here
Pit work, shore trades, and towns with their own pages
So whatever you drive, the offer does not change — we buy all of them. Where sand pits and shore towns share a county that means dump trucks and flatbeds off the pits first, then service bodies and work trucks off the trades, box trucks on delivery, day cabs on the runs north, and pickups.
What the seashore line carries could not be determined from any source read for this work. A tourist railway and a freight one look identical in this record, which is a limit of the source rather than a fact about the track.
Two more Cape May County towns hold pages of their own: Woodbine, which carries three of those four pits, and Ocean View, which carries the fourth. Mauricetown is over the line in Cumberland County.
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.
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