Orange County
A pit in town, and a ten-mile circle in three states
The quarry row here is a small one — MSHA records 4 employees — and it sits 0.94 miles from the Census centroid, which is unusually close for a pit. The nearest entry in NYSDOT’s approved source register is 0.03 miles away, effectively on the same coordinate, though its name does not match the operator so it is recorded as a neighbour rather than a join.
The road measurement is what makes this place different. Within ten miles the 2025 National Bridge Inventory records 120 structures — 81 from New York, 23 from Pennsylvania and 16 from New Jersey. Three state files in one circle, which happens nowhere else in this lane.
A rail yard sits 0.30 miles from the centroid under Metro-North Commuter Railroad. It is the only rail row attached here, and what it handles could not be determined.
Three states, one week
So a truck working here crosses jurisdictions before it crosses ten miles
That is the practical shape of it. Four of the 120 structures are coded below legal loads, two of them county-maintained, with the nearest 5.03 miles away, and the lowest operating rating among them is 12.7 metric tonnes — which is also the figure that binds a working truck.
But the restriction that matters on any given trip depends on which of the three states the trip goes into, and none of the three answers to the others. A truck kept in Orange County can spend most of its week under rules this page does not describe, and we would rather say that than let the New York figures stand in for all of it.
New York weight law
And a New York permit is a New York permit
Which is the direct consequence.
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 Pennsylvania or New Jersey structure. It is worth noting that New Jersey uses the same 22,400 lb single-axle figure New York does, so on that one point the line makes no difference — but that is a coincidence of two statutes 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 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 Port Jervis
Those rules cover all of it, and all of it is iron we buy. Dump trucks and aggregate haulers off the pit 0.94 miles from the middle of town. Day cabs, road tractors, flatbeds, box trucks, 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, in Orange County and over either line into Pennsylvania or New Jersey.
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 Port Jervis
- 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.
- The truck is registered here but works in two other states.Ordinary here and not a complication for the sale. The ten-mile circle round the pit holds structures from New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, so that is the normal working week.
- Do you come to this corner of Orange County?Yes. The rail yard is 0.30 miles from the centre and the pit 0.94; we go a great deal further than either, and where it is awkward we buy remotely and arrange the tow.
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 — whether the truck spent its life in Orange County or across in New Jersey.
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.