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

MSHA records 110 employees at the Carey Plant, which is the largest crushed-stone row in Ohio in the set that researched it, and 34 at the Stoneco operation alongside it. Both rows match the same active industrial-minerals surface permit, IM-0273, 201 permitted acres reported, approved on 2 February 1977.

144 people on 201 permitted acres is the densest employment per permitted acre anywhere in Ohio’s set, and that ratio points at processing rather than extraction. A pit needs ground. A plant needs people.

The same two cautions apply to the permit as to any in that register: the approval date records permitting under the current regime rather than when quarrying began, and permitted area is not worked area. The plant sits 15.3 mi from Findlay.

Those two rows are not the only thing here. Carey holds a lime plant as well, at one end of a run of plants across northern Ohio. Carey is 15.3 mi from Findlay; Woodville to Carey, the two ends of the belt, is 35.7 mi. Genoa is 13.7 mi from Toledo and Woodville 15.6.

Carmeuse, Graymont Limited and Martin Marietta Materials are named as the largest companies in US lime manufacturing, and three of the six plants along that belt carry those operator names. Not all of it is still running: USGS reports Carmeuse began phasing lime production out of its Millersville plant in 2016 with the intention of ceasing in 2017, and Millersville was one of the only significant domestic producers of dead-burned dolomite.

Lime is not inert freight. Quicklime is calcium oxide and it reacts violently and exothermically with water; moisture reaching dry storage causes hydration and expansion that can rupture the vessel holding it, and a large spill must not be treated with water. Anybody who has hauled it knows that. It is here because it is a fact about the load, not about the truck.

Those operations run under a weight rule that gives with one hand and takes back with the other.

Ohio sets gross weight at 80,000 lb, limits tyres to 650 lb per inch of width, and allows non-interstate axle groups up to 40,000 lb on two axles and 48,000 lb on three by spacing. On top of that, Ohio Rev. Code § 5577.043 lets a surface mining truck carrying minerals from the place where they are loaded exceed those provisions by no more than 7.5 per cent. Farm, log, coal and solid-waste vehicles get their own 7.5 per cent under the neighbouring sections.

The exception is written into the grant itself. The allowance does not apply on the interstate system, and it does not apply on any highway, road or bridge subject to reduced maximum weights. Ohio does not leave that to a separate federal-system section the way most states do — it is in the same sentence that gives the allowance.

Then read that against the seasonal rule. Under § 5577.07 the Director of Transportation may reduce weights and speeds on state highways by up to 25 per cent, and county commissioners on county roads by up to 50 per cent, with schedules filed and signs posted at least one day beforehand at both ends of the stretch and at intersections with principal roads.

So the day a county posts a thaw restriction, a qualifying truck loses the allowance and takes the reduction at the same time. On a county road that reduction can be half. The rule file states the consequence exactly: a vehicle legal at 86,000 lb in February can be illegal at 40,000 lb in March, on the same road, with one day’s notice.

There is one more worth knowing. Everything over 66,000 lb entering or leaving a surface mining operation has to use the roads designated under the county and township sections, and the operator has to post a sign naming them. A first violation is a written warning placed on the permanent motor vehicle record — not a fine, a record. A second inside a year is a minor misdemeanour and a third a fourth-degree misdemeanour.

Ohio Rev. Code § 5577.04 on base limits, § 5577.043 on the surface-mining variance, § 5577.07 on seasonal reductions and § 5577.081 on designated roads. Information, not legal advice, and only as current as the date the rule file was last verified.

Beyond the weight rules, the paperwork is one sentence.

Everything after that sentence is a fix rather than a category. A lost title has a counter replacement. Where none exists there is a bonded route. Both are ordinary and neither stops a sale.

One Ohio rule is worth knowing before anybody starts work, because it is about paperwork rather than metal. A rebuilt inspection here is carried out by the State Highway Patrol and covers proof of ownership, the motor number and the VIN — and the documentation or receipts for the materials used in the restoration, presented on the day, with titles or receipts for replaced major components carrying the source vehicle’s VIN.

A rebuild done without keeping the paperwork cannot be retitled in Ohio. Georgia checks the components; Ohio checks the receipts for them, at the counter, on the day. That is a thing to know before you start, not after.

And the brand is permanent. Every subsequent Ohio title bears REBUILT SALVAGE in black boldface on its face. Colorado stamps the vehicle instead, and Connecticut issues a clean-faced replacement — the same repaired truck, three different outcomes.

What Ohio does not have is a percentage. The central rule file records the threshold for becoming salvage as not determined and instructs that none be stated from it, and the section itself carries no numerical threshold, no valuation base and no age limit. The standard is that an insurer, a self-insured organisation, a rental or leasing company or a secured creditor declares the vehicle economically impractical to repair. The owner is not on that list. So no Ohio threshold is stated here.

Ohio Rev. Code § 4505.11. Information, not legal advice. Ohio has not adopted the Advanced Clean Trucks rule, which in any case is a manufacturer sales standard and asks nothing of an owner or an operator.

None of the above narrows what we will look at. Day cabs and road tractors, dump trucks and aggregate haulers, flatbeds, rollbacks, box trucks, straight trucks, tankers, service bodies, and the work trucks and pickups that go with a crew.

Box trucks and straight trucks are not an Ohio thing in particular — they are everywhere. They are on the list because we buy them here too.

Whatever you drive, the offer doesn’t change. We buy all of them. The pits, the kilns and the plant yards along the 35.7 mi of that belt are where most of it turns up, on the 201 acres this permit covers and the ground beside it.

• 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. A rebuilt one is fine, and Ohio will have printed that on the face of it.
• Do you actually come out here?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 — whichever is easiest for you.
• How far out do you come?Anywhere in Ohio and anywhere in the country. Findlay is 15.3 mi off and the far end of the belt 35.7 mi. We drive it away, tow it, buy it remotely and arrange the tow, or you drive it in.

Those reasons are the same everywhere and they are mostly personal. Retiring. A medical that went the wrong way. A truck sitting behind a shed since somebody stopped driving it, costing insurance every month it does not turn a wheel.

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.

Around the belt, all 35.7 mi of it, and the ground Martin Marietta Materials and its peers work, the same trucks come up for sale for the same reasons.