Van Wert County
Where Elgin sits
Elgin is in Van Wert County, and the census counts 81 people here, at 362 per square mile, with a median age of 42.2 years.
What we know about Elgin is what the census records and what Ohio 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.
Ohio weight law
That road has a number on it
That route out is where the state stops being an abstraction. Ohio sets the ceiling before any local sign lowers it.
In Ohio the base limits are 80,000 lb gross · 650 lb per inch width of pneumatic tyre · non-interstate axle groups to 40,000 lb on two axles and 48,000 lb on three, by spacing (ORC 5577.04).
In Ohio, a surface mining truck transporting minerals from the place where the minerals are loaded may exceed Ohio's weight provisions by no more than 7.5%. Does not apply on (1) the interstate system, or (2) a highway, road or bridge subject to reduced maximum weights (ORC 5577.043).
In Ohio, farm, log, coal and solid-waste vehicles get their own 7.5%; natural-gas and electric vehicles +2,000 lb — except on the interstate or a weight-restricted road (ORC 5577.042 · 5577.044).
So what leaves Elgin
That rule meets 81 people in Elgin, Van Wert County, at a household median around $90,972 and a density of 362 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.
Straight answers
The questions we get asked in Elgin
Do you actually come to Van Wert 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? 81 people at 362 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.