New York moves freight through harbours, canals and a lot of rail. Ports run at Albany and Port Jefferson, petroleum terminals at Buffalo, Port Chester and Hampton Manor, and liquid-bulk terminals at Albany, Binghamton, East Syracuse and Big Flats. Intermodal ramps work at Buffalo, Mechanicville and Blasdell, flour mills at Buffalo, Albany, Churchville and Lyndonville, a cement plant at Ravena, and rail yards from Batavia and Amsterdam to Binghamton.
A Freightliner day cab out of Buffalo, a Peterbilt sleeper off an Albany run, a Mack roll-off near Binghamton or a Chevrolet dually out of Rochester all get the same treatment: photos and the details come to us, we send an offer, and if it works we can come to you, buy it remotely, or you can drive it in.
New York’s trucking industry is the largest freight market on the East Coast, with the Port of New York and New Jersey handling billions in goods annually.
In New York the maximum gross weight is 80,000 lb, the ceiling on total weight for a vehicle or combination having three axles or more, and a vehicle whose engine is fuelled primarily by natural gas may reach 82,000 lb (N.Y. Veh. & Traf. Law § 385(10)). In New York the weight on any one axle is 22,400 lb, where the federal maximum for a single axle is 20,000 lb (N.Y. Veh. & Traf. Law § 385(8)). In New York the weight on two consecutive axles under eight feet apart is 36,000 lb, where the federal maximum for a tandem is 34,000 lb (N.Y. Veh. & Traf. Law § 385(9)).
Four separate routes to the same brand
The title is the other half, and New York’s salvage rule has an unusually wide door. Four routes reach the same brand. A vehicle is salvage if an insurer takes it on a salvage certificate after significant damage from collision, theft, vandalism or water; or if repair costs exceed seventy-five per cent of its pre-damage retail value; or if another state issued it a salvage title and it was brought in; or if the owner declared it a wreck on the back of the New York title at transfer. The percentage test applies to a vehicle eight model years old or newer — New Hampshire stops at four years, Missouri and Nebraska at six, Arkansas at seven. For an older working truck that window decides whether the percentage reaches the vehicle at all. Once applied, the brand stays on the title for as long as the vehicle exists, and the DMV must examine a rebuilt vehicle for stolen parts before it can be registered or titled.
New York DMV, salvage and rebuilt-salvage titling.
New York inspection
One of nine counties where a heavy diesel takes an opacity test
Every vehicle registered in New York is inspected at least every twelve months.
New York DMV, Vehicle Safety and Emissions Inspection Program.