The operation
One yard, under Conrail, and nothing about it is in dispute
One rail-yard row is attached to this borough, under Conrail, 0.48 miles from the centroid and inside the place. The name on it is this borough’s own name, and it was matched by containment rather than by any fallback.
Name, ground and attachment all agreeing sounds like the ordinary case and in this county it is not. Of the twelve rows filed under Middlesex County, several are attached to towns their coordinates are not in, and two rows in neighbouring counties are filed under this one instead. This borough is the uncomplicated entry in a complicated set.
Two of this county’s rows belong to towns in other counties
Those two are worth naming, because they are the reason a row count here is hard to read. One is a yard 0.99 miles from a Union County city, filed under this county and standing in Avenel. The other is a maintenance row carrying a city’s name, attached to a Somerset County town 2.45 miles away and filed under this county as well.
So Middlesex County’s twelve rows — nine rail yards, two liquid-bulk terminals and one industrial-sand plant with 24 employees — are not twelve Middlesex operations serving twelve Middlesex towns. Two of them serve towns in two other counties, and the record does not flag it. This one serves the borough it is named after.
What runs here
Warehouse work, corridor runs, and towns with their own pages
So whatever you drive, the offer does not change — we buy all of them. On ground given over to warehousing and light industry that means box trucks and straight trucks first, then day cabs and road tractors on the through runs, dump trucks and flatbeds off the constant site work, service bodies off the trades, and pickups.
What the yard handles could not be determined from any source read for this work, and a clean match does not license a guess about traffic any more than a messy one does. The 0.48 miles is the measured part.
Three more Middlesex County towns hold pages of their own: Metuchen, Carteret and Avenel, where that borrowed yard actually stands.
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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