Hudson Valley
One yard, and it really is inside the city
A single rail-yard row is attached to Kingston, recorded under CSX Transportation 0.96 miles from the Census centroid, with its coordinate falling inside the place rather than being pulled in from outside.
That is worth a line because a good half of the yards on these pages are attached by nearest-centroid fallback and sit somewhere other than the town they are filed under. This one does not. What it handles could not be determined from any source we read.
What was not measured
So the road figures are the state’s, and the Hudson Valley is the narrowest we can get
Those are the only ones available, because no ten-mile bridge measurement was taken for anything attached to Kingston — not for the yard 0.96 miles out and not for anything else. Statewide, 4.2% of New York’s structures are coded below legal loads.
What the measured ground nearby suggests is that this stretch of the Hudson Valley is not easy: down at Catskill the crossing that binds a loaded truck leaves about 1.7 tonnes of stone, which is the joint lowest in this lane. That is a fact about Catskill and not about Kingston, and we are not going to pretend otherwise — but it is the nearest measured road.
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 Kingston
Which brings it back to the truck, whatever it happens to be. Day cabs and road tractors off the yard end. Box trucks, straight trucks, dump trucks, 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, anywhere in the Hudson Valley and well past the 0.96 miles to that yard.
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 Kingston
- 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 line of work.Probably not. The one row attached to Kingston is a yard 0.96 miles out with no commodity recorded, so anything more would be a guess. It changes nothing about the offer.
- Are the roads round here hard on a loaded truck?We have no measurement for Kingston itself. On the measured ground down the Hudson Valley at Catskill the binding crossing is tight, so it would not surprise us — but we are not going to state it as a local fact.
Why people call
Beyond a truck that has simply done its turns, the reasons are personal ones. Retiring. A business that changed shape. 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, anywhere in the Hudson Valley — and the yard 0.96 miles from the centre 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.