Greene County
An eight-man quarry, and one of four Peckham rows in this lane
The row attached to Catskill is a crushed-stone operation MSHA records with 8 employees, 3.05 miles from the Census centroid of the village. It joins NYSDOT’s approved source register 0.84 miles away as a fine aggregate source under the Peckham Materials name.
That operator turns up four times across this lane, in four different counties, and the roads outside those four pits are not the same road. What comes off this one is capped harder than any of the others.
The road out of it
And what binds a loaded truck here leaves 1.7 tonnes
That is the figure, and it is the joint lowest in this lane. Within ten miles the 2025 National Bridge Inventory records 126 structures, nine coded posted for load and eight coded below legal loads, five of them county-maintained, with the nearest 5.37 miles away.
The lowest operating rating among them is 12.7 tonnes, about 14.0 US tons, which is also the figure that binds a working truck. Over the 11-tonne empty weight of a tandem dump that admits roughly 1.7 tonnes of stone — which in practice means a loaded truck does not use that crossing at all and goes the long way.
Five of the eight being county-maintained puts most of the answer in one office, though not all of it: the rest belong to towns or to the state, which are different conversations again.
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
Which a permit does nothing about
Which is the gap the statute cannot close.
Vehicle and Traffic Law § 385 sets a maximum of 80,000 lb or less depending on axle spacing, and above legal weight the owner obtains a divisible load overweight permit from NYSDOT. There is no list of favoured commodities in it — stone and aggregate are divisible loads by definition. An overweight move that is not also over-dimensional, is within 125% of legal weight and can hold traffic-flow speed is not restricted as to times or days of travel.
Beneath the permit the state allows 22,400 lb on a single axle and 36,000 lb on two consecutive axles under eight feet, against federal figures of 20,000 lb and 34,000 lb, and federal limits govern the interstate system.
A permit raises what the state will let you carry. It does not raise a 12.7-tonne rating, and around Catskill that rating is what decides the route.
N.Y. Veh. & Traf. Law § 385. Information, not legal advice.
New York paperwork
We need a title — unless it never had one
Beyond the roads, 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 around Catskill
Those rules cover all of it, and all of it is iron we buy. Dump trucks and aggregate haulers off the Peckham Materials ground 3.05 miles out. Mixers, flatbeds, day cabs, 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 Greene County.
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 Catskill
- 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.
- It has done far more trips than miles.That is the shape of a truck working off a road capped at about 1.7 tonnes of payload. Expected, and the hours tell us more than the odometer does.
- Who posts the bridges here?Mostly the county — five of the eight restricted structures within ten miles are county-maintained, the nearest 5.37 miles out — but not all of them, so Greene County is not one office for everything.
Why people call
Beyond a truck that has worn out on short loaded trips, the reasons are personal ones. Retiring. A contract that ended. A driver whose DOT physical didn’t go the way it used to.
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 — 8 employees at the Peckham Materials pit is the scale of most of what calls us out of Greene County.
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 approved source register, the FHWA National Bridge Inventory 2025, MSHA, plus the central node list.