Sell your semi truck for cash in Hudson the easy and convenient way

Two rows are attached to Hudson. One is a crushed-stone operation MSHA records with 19 employees, 1.33 miles from the Census centroid, joining NYSDOT’s approved source register 0.09 miles away under the Colarusso name — about as tight a coordinate match as this data produces.

The other is an ADM flour mill whose coordinate reverse-geocodes to Columbia County. Capacity, throughput and shipping mode are not established for it, and that is not an oversight: ADM does not publish figures at the site level, so there are none to read.

That quarry works the tightest road in this lane. Within ten miles the 2025 National Bridge Inventory records 112 structures, eight coded posted for load and seven coded below legal loads — and all seven of the seven are county-maintained, with the nearest 1.78 miles away.

The lowest operating rating among them is 12.7 tonnes, which is also the one that binds a working truck, about 14.0 US tons. Over the 11-tonne empty weight of a tandem dump that admits roughly 1.7 tonnes of stone. That is the lowest payload figure on any page in this lane, and it means a loaded truck effectively does not use that crossing at all.

The unusual part is who holds them. Every one of the seven belongs to the county, which almost never happens — the state maintains 43.2% of New York’s structures and counties 35.7%, with towns and municipalities holding the rest, so restrictions normally scatter across tiers. Here there is one office to ask, and that counts for more than it sounds.

FHWA National Bridge Inventory 2025; items 21, 41, 64 and 70. Ratings are the gross weight of the rating vehicle, not a payload.

Which changes what the odometer means on a Columbia County stone truck. If the direct route is capped at 1.7 tonnes of payload, the load goes the long way or it goes in more trips, and more trips is more loading cycles, more hoist time and more low-speed work on unmade ground.

None of that stops us buying and none of it is a mark against the truck. It does mean the hours matter more than the miles on anything working out of the quarry 1.33 miles from the centre, and we would rather hear about the hours. You know better than we do how often the short way was the way you could actually take.

Which is exactly the distinction the statute cannot help with.

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.

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.

Those rules cover all of it, and all of it is iron we buy. Dump trucks and aggregate haulers off the quarry 1.33 miles out. Day cabs, flatbeds, box trucks, mixers, 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 Columbia County.

• 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.
• Who do I ask about a posted bridge here?The county, and unusually that is the whole answer — all seven of the restricted structures within ten miles are county-maintained, the nearest 1.78 miles out. Everywhere else in this lane they scatter across tiers, so Columbia County is the simple case.
• 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. It is expected, and the hours tell us more than the odometer does.

Beyond a truck that has simply 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 — 19 employees at the quarry 1.33 miles out is the scale of most of what calls us out of Columbia County.