Wayne County
A twenty-eight-man pit, and the best payload of its company’s four
The row attached to Gananda is the Walworth Plant, a crushed-stone operation MSHA records with 28 employees, 2.71 miles from the Census centroid. It joins NYSDOT’s approved source register 0.31 miles away as a fine aggregate source under the Dolomite Products name.
The same company holds three more pits within an hour of here, and the roads outside them are not one road. This one and the pit at Manchester both carry a commercial floor of 31.8 tonnes, admitting about 20.8 tonnes of stone — four-fifths of a legal load. The Penfield plant carries 26.3, and Leroy, forty miles west, carries 15.4 and admits about a fifth of what comes out of here.
The road out of it
And nothing restricting it belongs to the county
That matters for who a hauler would even ring. Within ten miles the 2025 National Bridge Inventory records 94 structures — a small circle by this lane’s standards — six coded posted for load and seven coded below legal loads, with not one of the seven county-maintained and the nearest 5.23 miles away.
So every restriction round the Walworth Plant belongs to a town or to the state. The lowest operating rating among them is 3.6 tonnes, which nothing commercial crosses even empty, so it never appears in a truck’s week.
Five miles is a long way to go before meeting the first restriction, and 31.8 tonnes is a generous cap when you do. On the ordinary run out of this pit the road is not the constraint.
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 leaves the statute as what actually binds
Which is the opposite of most of the pit towns in this lane.
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.
N.Y. Veh. & Traf. Law § 385. Information, not legal advice.
New York paperwork
We need a title — unless it never had one
Beyond the permits, 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 Gananda
Those rules cover all of it, and all of it is iron we buy. Dump trucks and aggregate haulers off the Walworth Plant 2.71 miles out. Mixers off the concrete end. Day cabs, flatbeds, 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, whether it ran for Dolomite Products or for somebody with one truck.
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 Gananda
- 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 run close to a full load its whole life.Likely, out of the Walworth Plant — the binding crossing admits about 20.8 tonnes of stone, which is four-fifths of a legal load. That means the hours matter more than the miles.
- Will a posted bridge stop the tow?Unlikely. The nearest restricted structure is 5.23 miles out and none of them is county-maintained, so most routes never meet one.
Why people call
Beyond a truck that has worn out on loaded runs, 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 — 28 employees at the Walworth Plant is a decent-sized outfit, and even there trucks come up for sale 2.71 miles from the village.
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.