The operation
One yard, publicly held, and it sits in the next place along
One rail-yard row is attached to this city. It runs under the state transport department, its coordinate lies 0.99 miles from the centroid, and it was matched by falling inside the place radius rather than by any fallback. This city is a Union County address.
Where it actually stands is Avenel, a census designated place that holds a page of its own. So the row is attached here and located there, which is the ordinary condition of this record rather than anything unusual — and it is written down because a seller in either place should know both towns are covered.
That row is filed under a county this city is not in
Those 0.99 miles cross a county line as well. The row is filed under Middlesex County; this city is a Union County address. So of the 17 rows filed under Union County — ten rail yards, five liquid-bulk terminals and two intermodal ramps, most of them clustered at the port — this city holds none, despite having a yard within a mile of its centre.
That is worth stating rather than glossing, because a row count read carelessly says there is nothing here. There is something here. It is booked to the county next door.
What runs here
City delivery, corridor runs, and towns with their own pages
So whatever you drive, the offer does not change — we buy all of them. In a city on this corridor that means box trucks and straight trucks on delivery first, then day cabs and road tractors on the through runs, dump trucks and flatbeds off the construction, service bodies off the trades, and pickups.
What that yard handles could not be determined from any source read for this work. A publicly held row usually means one party maintains the track and another works it, and neither of those parties is named in the record — any more than the record explains why a yard 0.99 miles from here is booked to Middlesex County.
Avenel, where the row actually stands, holds a page of its own, and so do Linden and Cranford, both in Union County with this city.
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 Rahway
Rahway, Avenel, Linden and the towns along the corridor. Tell us what you have and we will take it from there.
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