Onondaga County
One row, and it is named for somewhere else
A single rail-yard row is attached to Baldwinsville: the Radisson yard, recorded under CSX Transportation, 1.15 miles from the Census centroid and pulled in by nearest-centroid fallback rather than by containment. The name is not the village’s.
What it handles could not be determined from any source we read. That is the whole of what the list holds here, and we are not going to build a local fleet out of it.
What the county says
So the figures worth having are Onondaga County’s
Those are genuinely good news for anybody running a heavy truck. Onondaga County posts one of the 99 bridges it maintains, and around the quarry ground east of here the 2025 National Bridge Inventory records 316 structures within ten miles with five coded below legal loads — none of them the county’s.
None of that is a fact about Baldwinsville, and we are not presenting it as one. It is the road environment a truck kept 1.15 miles from that yard has been working in, which is a different and more honest claim.
FHWA National Bridge Inventory 2025; items 21, 41, 64 and 70. Ratings are the gross weight of the rating vehicle, not a payload.
New York weight law
The axle figures run above the federal ones
Beyond the roads, the statute is the same wherever the truck is kept.
Vehicle and Traffic Law § 385 caps gross weight at 80,000 lb, and at 82,000 lb where the engine runs primarily on natural gas — an allowance that turns on what the engine burns rather than on the cargo. Beneath the ceiling, 22,400 lb is allowed on a single axle and 36,000 lb on two consecutive axles less than eight feet apart, against federal figures of 20,000 lb and 34,000 lb. New Jersey uses the same 22,400 lb single-axle figure, which makes it a regional number rather than a New York one.
Federal limits govern the interstate system, so the higher state figures are non-interstate ones. A truck that ran to the state number on state roads carried more than its mileage suggests.
N.Y. Veh. & Traf. Law § 385. Information, not legal advice.
New York paperwork
We need a title — unless it never had one
Beyond the weight rules, the paperwork comes down to that one sentence.
Everything after it is a fix rather than a category. A lost title has a counter replacement; where none exists there is a bonded route. New York reaches its salvage brand by four separate routes, and its seventy-five per cent repair-cost test applies only to a vehicle eight model years old or newer, so on an older truck it does not arise. Once applied the brand is permanent, 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. Information, not legal advice, and only as current as the date the rule file was last verified.
What we buy in Baldwinsville
Which brings it back to the truck, whatever it happens to be. Box trucks and straight trucks. Dump trucks and flatbeds. Day cabs, rollbacks, service bodies, and the work trucks and pickups that go out with a crew.
Whatever you drive, the offer doesn’t change. We buy all of them, anywhere in Onondaga County — and one thin row at 1.15 miles changes nothing about that.
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. Small things — a missing bumper — are fine.
Straight answers
The questions we get asked in Baldwinsville
- Does it have to run?No. It does have to be complete — if the engine, transmission, doors, rear ends, drive shafts, wheels or anything under the hood have been removed, we can’t buy it. Rust is not a disqualifier.
- The engine is out of it. Is that different?Yes, and that is the line. A tired engine is fine; an engine that has been pulled out and sold means we can’t buy the truck.
- What about the title?We need one unless the truck is old enough that it never had one. A lost title has a counter replacement; where none exists there’s a bonded route.
- There is nothing here about my kind of work.There is not, and that is honest rather than careless — the one row attached here is a yard 1.15 miles out with no commodity recorded. It changes nothing about the offer.
- Is this a hard county for a heavy truck?No. Onondaga County posts one of the 99 bridges it maintains, which is about as light as this state gets.
Why people call
Beyond a truck that has simply finished its working life, the reasons are personal ones. A business that changed shape. A driver who stopped driving. A truck that is just sitting, and every month it sits is another month of insurance on something that isn’t turning a wheel.
Most of those aren’t happy reasons, and we don’t treat them like they are. Somebody wants a straight answer and the truck gone by the end of the week. That’s what we’re here for, anywhere in Onondaga County — and the yard 1.15 miles out is not where it gets settled.
New York weight and title rules current as of August 2026 — verify with the New York DMV and NYSDOT before acting on them. Sources: the New York Consolidated Laws, the New York DMV, NYSDOT , the FHWA National Bridge Inventory 2025, plus the central node list.