The operation
Nine hundred and fifty feet from the middle of the place
One rail-yard row is attached to this place, under Conrail, and its coordinate lies 0.18 miles from the centroid — about 950 feet. Of every correctly attached row in this lane that is the shortest distance between a facility and the middle of the town it belongs to.
At that range the distinction between the yard and the place stops meaning anything. This is not a town with a yard near it; it is a yard with a town around it, and the name says as much. What the trucks here do is set by that and not by much else.
That name is a port name, and the row is not a port row
So the name deserves a second look, because it promises something the record does not carry. This row is typed as a rail yard, not as a port, a terminal or a ramp — and the two liquid-bulk terminals filed under Middlesex County are attached to other towns, as is the county’s only industrial-sand plant with its 24 employees.
Nine of the twelve rows in this county are rail yards, and this is one of them. Whether there is a working port here is not something this data records either way, so nothing is claimed. What is measured is 0.18 miles and a carrier, and that is what the page says.
What runs here
Yard traffic, terminal runs, and towns with their own pages
So whatever you drive, the offer does not change — we buy all of them. On ground this close to a yard that means day cabs and road tractors first, then box trucks and straight trucks on distribution, dump trucks and flatbeds off the site work, service bodies off the trades, and pickups.
What the yard handles could not be determined from any source read for this work. A yard 950 feet from the middle of a place is a fact about geography, not about freight, and the two are kept apart here.
Three more Middlesex County towns hold pages of their own: Avenel, Carteret and Perth Amboy, which carries the tank terminal and the sand plant.
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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Port Reading, Avenel, Carteret and the towns along the sound. Tell us what you have and we will take it from there.
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