We buy trucks in Meridian

Meridian is in Cayuga County, and the census counts 220 people here, at 318 per square mile, with a median age of 52.9 years.

What we know about Meridian is what the census records and what New York law requires; the yards, pits and depots we have researched elsewhere have no entry here. So the question we can actually answer is how a truck gets out, not who else might want it.

That route out is where the state stops being an abstraction. New York sets the ceiling before any local sign lowers it.

In New York the maximum gross weight is 80,000 lb, the ceiling on total weight for a vehicle or combination having three axles or more, and a vehicle whose engine is fuelled primarily by natural gas may reach 82,000 lb (N.Y. Veh. & Traf. Law § 385(10)).

In New York the weight on any one axle is 22,400 lb, where the federal maximum for a single axle is 20,000 lb (N.Y. Veh. & Traf. Law § 385(8)).

In New York the weight on two consecutive axles under eight feet apart is 36,000 lb, where the federal maximum for a tandem is 34,000 lb (N.Y. Veh. & Traf. Law § 385(9)).

Those limits decide the route. The title decides whether there is a sale at all.

In New York the salvage threshold is 75% of the retail value of the vehicle at the time of loss, taken from a current nationally recognised compilation of retail values, measured by the total estimated or actual cost of parts and labour to rebuild the vehicle to its pre-accident condition and for legal operation on the road (15 NYCRR § 20.20(c)(1)(ii)).

In New York, the salvage branding subdivision reaches a vehicle eight model years old or newer on the date of loss, so an older vehicle falls outside that subdivision however badly it is damaged (15 NYCRR § 20.20(c)(1)).

In New York, a title is branded after any one of three events: a salvage vehicle certificate on form MV-907A is filed with the department, the vehicle is damaged past the threshold, or the owner voluntarily declares the vehicle salvage (15 NYCRR § 20.20(c)(1)).

Those two rules meet 220 people in Meridian, Cayuga County, at a household median around $93,750 and a density of 318 per square mile. A truck sitting in a driveway here is a working asset that has stopped working, whatever the size of the place it stopped in.

What we take out of a place like this is sleeper tractors and day cabs, dump trucks and roll-offs, box trucks and flatbeds, pickups and duallys, and the service and utility bodies that outlive the business that bought them.

Do you actually come to Cayuga County? Yes. We come to you and drive it away, we come to you and tow it, we buy it remotely and arrange the tow, or you drive it to us.

Do you come out to a place this size? 220 people at 318 per square mile is a place we reach the same way we reach anywhere else. The truck decides whether we buy it, not the population.

How do you pay? We pay either cash or electronically.