Somerset County
Where Rocky Hill sits
Rocky Hill is in Somerset County, and the census counts 819 people here, at 1,343 per square mile, with a median age of 44.5 years.
What we know about Rocky Hill is what the census records and what New Jersey law requires; the yards, pits and depots we have researched elsewhere have no entry here. So the question we can actually answer is how a truck gets out, not who else might want it.
New Jersey weight law
That road has a number on it
That route out is where the state stops being an abstraction. New Jersey sets the ceiling before any local sign lowers it.
In New Jersey the maximum gross weight, vehicle or combination is 80,000 lb, including load or contents (N.J.S.A. 39:3-84b.(4)).
In New Jersey the single axle weight limit is 22,400 lb, where the axle centre is more than 96 inches from the next; a group of axles less than 40 inches apart counts as one axle (N.J.S.A. 39:3-84b.(3)).
In New Jersey the tandem axle weight limit is 34,000 lb, where consecutive axle centres are 40 inches or more but not more than 96 inches apart (N.J.S.A. 39:3-84b.(2)).
New Jersey paperwork
Then the paperwork has to match the truck
Those limits decide the route. The title decides whether there is a sale at all.
In New Jersey the salvage threshold is 100% of fair market value: the vehicle is economically impractical to repair when the cost to repair it, on a bona fide repair estimate, equals or exceeds that value (N.J.A.C. 13:21-22.3).
In New Jersey, the base is fair market value immediately before the damage, which the rule defines as the retail value averaged across the official valuation manuals approved by the Commissioner of Banking and Insurance (N.J.A.C. 13:21-22.3).
In New Jersey, the highest of the bona fide repair estimates decides it, and an estimate written by the vehicle owner does not count as one (N.J.A.C. 13:21-22.3).
So what leaves Rocky Hill
Those two rules meet 819 people in Rocky Hill, Somerset County, at a household median around $148,056 and a density of 1,343 per square mile. A truck sitting in a driveway here is a working asset that has stopped working, whatever the size of the place it stopped in.
What we take out of a place like this is sleeper tractors and day cabs, dump trucks and roll-offs, box trucks and flatbeds, pickups and duallys, and the service and utility bodies that outlive the business that bought them.
Straight answers
The questions we get asked in Rocky Hill
Do you actually come to Somerset County? Yes. We come to you and drive it away, we come to you and tow it, we buy it remotely and arrange the tow, or you drive it to us.
Do you come out to a place this size? 819 people at 1,343 per square mile is a place we reach the same way we reach anywhere else. The truck decides whether we buy it, not the population.
How do you pay? We pay either cash or electronically.