Sullivan County
Three quarries in the county, and two employees between the largest and the smallest
This village carries one crushed-stone row: JML Quarries, which MSHA records with 10 employees. Its coordinates lie 3.39 miles from the Census centroid of the village.
Sullivan County holds only three rows in the whole survey, and all three are quarries of remarkably similar size — the Mongaup Valley Quarry at Monticello with 9 employees under E Tetz & Sons, working crushed sandstone; the Bridgeville Plant at Rock Hill with 11 under Callanan Industries; and this one with 10. Nine, ten and eleven — three operations within two people of each other, and no rail yard, terminal or installation anywhere in the county.
The nearest entry in NYSDOT’s approved source register sits 0.19 miles from this node and is recorded as JML Quarries, Inc., listed as a fine aggregate source. The survey reports it as a neighbour rather than a confirmed join, because the automated match on operator name did not fire on it. What a neighbour that close does establish is the coordinate itself.
Reading the numbers
Four of the five restrictions here belong to the county
Those three quarries share a thin road network, and this circle has an unusual owner.
Within ten miles the 2025 National Bridge Inventory records 125 structures. Four are coded posted for load on item 41 and five are coded below legal loads on item 70, the nearest 4.35 miles out. Of those five, four are county-maintained.
That is the part worth stopping on. New York is a four-tier network in which the state maintains 43.2% of structures and counties 35.7%, with towns and municipalities holding the rest — so four restrictions in five belonging to one tier is well out of proportion to the tier’s share. It matters practically rather than statistically: what a seller can do about a county posting and what they can do about a state or town posting are not the same errand, and here almost all of it is the county’s.
The raw minimum among the five is 9.1 metric tonnes, below the 11.0-tonne tare of an empty tandem dump, so nothing commercial crosses that one loaded or empty. The figure that binds a working truck is the lowest at or above that tare: 24.5 tonnes, about 27.0 US tons, admitting roughly 13.5 tonnes of stone. So the ground here is easier than the count of postings makes it sound: five restrictions, and the one that binds still takes better than half a legal load.
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 statute sets the ceiling the county roads sit under
So the county holds most of what is posted, and the statute sets what a full load may weigh in the first place.
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. Beneath that ceiling New York allows 22,400 lb 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. The single-axle figure is the finding: every other state read in this survey sits at 20,000, and New York is the only one that raises the single axle rather than the tandem.
Federal limits govern the interstate system, so those higher figures are state and county road numbers, which is where a quarry truck out here actually runs. New York also issues divisible-load overweight permits tied to named routes; no maximum gross under them was established and none is claimed.
N.Y. Veh. & Traf. Law § 385. Information, not legal advice.
New York paperwork
We need a title — unless it never had one
That covers the road. The paperwork comes down to one sentence.
Everything after that is a fix rather than a category. A lost title has a counter replacement; where none exists there is a bonded route. New York brands a vehicle salvage under Vehicle and Traffic Law § 429 where the cost of parts and labour to rebuild it to its pre-accident condition exceeds seventy-five per cent of the retail value of the vehicle at the time of loss — and the base matters as much as the percentage, because other states measure the same test against fair market value before the damage, or against actual cash value less salvage.
Once applied the brand is permanent, and the DMV must examine a rebuilt vehicle for stolen parts before it can be registered or titled.
N.Y. Veh. & Traf. Law § 429; New York DMV, salvage and rebuilt-salvage titling. Information, not legal advice.
What we buy in Wurtsboro
Which brings it back to the truck, and the offer does not depend on which one you have. Dump trucks and aggregate haulers off the stone 3.39 miles out. Day cabs, box trucks, flatbeds, rollbacks, service bodies, and the work trucks and pickups that go out with a crew.
We buy all of them, anywhere in Sullivan County, from the village over the ridge and across to Rock Hill and Monticello. A ten-man quarry does not run a big fleet, and the trucks around three operations this size are exactly the ones people call us about.
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 Wurtsboro
- 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.
- Will a posted bridge stop the tow?Five of the 125 structures within ten miles are coded below legal loads, four of them county-maintained, and the nearest is 4.35 miles out. The crossing that shapes a loaded run is rated 24.5 metric tonnes, which is a comparatively generous cap. Routing is our end of it.
- Do you actually come out this far?Yes, and often we do not need to. We can buy it remotely and arrange the tow, which over the ridge roads is usually the quickest path. If a visit suits you better we will come out anywhere in Sullivan County and drive it away or tow it.
Why people call
Beyond a truck that has worn out on loaded runs, the reasons are personal ones. Retiring. A business that changed shape. A driver whose DOT physical did not go the way it used to.
Most of those are not happy reasons and we do not treat them like they are. Somebody wants a straight answer and the truck gone. That is what we are here for, anywhere in Sullivan County — and the 3.39 miles out to that quarry is our side of the map rather than yours.
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, the NYSDOT approved source register, the FHWA National Bridge Inventory 2025, MSHA, plus the central node list.