Orange County
A three-man pit, and a circle that reaches into New Jersey
The row attached to Goshen is a crushed-stone operation MSHA records with 3 employees, 3.45 miles from the Census centroid of the village. It joins NYSDOT’s approved source register 0.19 miles away as a fine aggregate source under the Tilcon New York name.
Its ten-mile circle crosses a state line, though only just: the 2025 National Bridge Inventory records 186 structures inside it, 184 from New York and 2 from New Jersey. The count is computed from every state file with structures in the radius rather than from New York alone.
The road out of it
And nine of those structures will not take a legal load
That is a heavier tally than the small circle suggests. Eight are coded posted for load and nine are coded below legal loads, four of them county-maintained.
Four of the nine belonging to Orange County is unusual in this lane — most places the restrictions scatter across towns and the state, and there is no single office to ring. Here there is at least a substantial one, and the pit sits 3.45 miles from the village in the middle of it.
Three employees is a very small operation to be working a road like that, and it is worth saying plainly rather than writing the pit up as an industry. The trucks that come off it are few and they work hard.
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
And a New York permit stops at the line
Which matters wherever a circle crosses one.
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.
None of that reaches a New Jersey structure. New Jersey happens to use the same 22,400 lb single-axle figure New York does, so on that one point the line makes no difference — but that is two statutes agreeing rather than a rule that travels.
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 Goshen
Those rules cover all of it, and all of it is iron we buy. Dump trucks and aggregate haulers off the Tilcon New York ground 3.45 miles out. Mixers off the concrete end. 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 Orange County and over into New Jersey as readily.
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 Goshen
- 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 works both sides of the state line.Ordinary here and not a complication for the sale — the ten-mile circle round the pit holds structures from New York and New Jersey both.
- Who do I ask about a posted bridge?Often Orange County: four of the nine restricted structures within ten miles are county-maintained, which is a bigger share than most places in this lane.
Why people call
Beyond a truck that has worn out on loaded runs, the reasons are personal ones. Retiring. A small operation winding down — 3 employees on the Tilcon New York ground is the scale of a lot of what works here. A medical that went the wrong way.
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 Orange County — and the pit end of it is a short run, with the approved source recorded 0.19 miles from the quarry coordinate.
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.