Stone and a river
A cement plant, and three quarries around it
The heavy work here is stone and cement, and it sits in a band to the north-east. The Central Plains cement plant is about 5.5 miles out with 121 people, the APAC-Central East Quarry about 6.7 miles with 34, Greenhill Materials about 8.2 miles with 34, and an Anchor Stone quarry about 9.7 miles with 41. Four sites, 230 people between them, all within ten miles and all on the same side.
Around that: a bulk terminal about 3.7 miles north, two yards about 5.3 miles north-west and 6.2 miles west, the airport about 6.3 miles north, and an Anchor Stone sand plant about 9 miles south with 8. The river port is about 12 miles north-east, with a second port about 18 miles out.
The sand is south, and it is a different scale
Those big stone numbers do not continue past the ring. South and east the operations drop to single figures: a plant about 12.5 miles south-east with 8 people, two more about 14 miles south with 3 and 4, a sand pit about 17 miles south-east with 2, and a plant about 19 miles south-east with 9. West, an Arkansas River sand operation about 12 miles out has 4.
So a truck bought for the stone runs a short heavy circuit north-east, and a truck bought for the sand covers twice the ground for a fraction of the tonnage. Those wear out differently, and anyone who has run both already knows it.
Oklahoma paperwork
Sixty per cent, and a second brand above it
Both kinds of truck meet a title rule that starts lower than any other state file we hold. Under 47 O.S. § 1105 a salvage vehicle is one within the last TEN model years damaged to the extent that the cost of repairing it for safe operation exceeds SIXTY per cent of its fair market value immediately prior to the damage. Sixty is the lowest threshold in our files — most of the state files that record a threshold sit at seventy-five or eighty.
And there is a second brand stacked above it. Damage between 60 and 79 per cent of fair market value gives a SALVAGE title; damage at 80 per cent or greater gives a JUNK title. A rebuilt vehicle is a salvage vehicle that has been rebuilt and inspected for the purpose of registration and title. Two brands and a ten-year window is a different shape from the single threshold most of those files record, and it is worth knowing which side of 80 a truck landed on.
47 O.S. § 1105 and § 1111. Information, not legal advice, and only as current as the date the rule file was last verified.
What we buy here
The stone ring and the sand run different iron, and whatever you drive, the offer doesn’t change — we buy all of them. Dump trucks and aggregate haulers off the East Quarry and the Greenhill and Anchor Stone operations. Mixers on the cement plant work. Tankers off the bulk terminals, day cabs and road tractors on the port and yard runs, flatbeds, box trucks, service bodies and the pickups that follow the rest of it around.
Most of it works inside about 12 miles — the cement plant, the three quarries, the two yards and the river port.
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 Tulsa
- Does it have to run?No. It does have to be complete, though — if the engine, transmission, doors, rear ends, drive shafts, wheels or anything under the hood have been removed, we can’t buy it. A missing bumper is fine. A missing driveline is not.
- Do you actually come out to the county line?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. The quarry ring around Greenhill Materials is inside about 10 miles, and the Rogers County port about 18.
- What if I can’t find the title?We need a title — unless the truck is old enough that it never had one. If it’s lost, there’s a counter replacement. If there was never one to lose, there’s a bonded route. Neither stops a sale.
- There’s still money owed on it. Now what?That’s a payoff and a lien release, and it’s the slow part rather than the hard part. Tell us up front and we’ll work it into the paperwork.
- How do you pay?Cash or electronic payment, whichever you would rather have.
- An adjuster said sixty per cent. Is that really the line here?It is, for a vehicle within the last ten model years — and it is the lowest threshold in our files, so a figure that would be nowhere near a write-off in a neighbouring state can cross it here. Above eighty per cent it becomes a junk title instead. Tell us what the paperwork says and we will read it with you.
Why people call
Beyond the trucks themselves, the reasons repeat. A DOT physical didn’t go the way it used to. A quarry contract that filled the year for nine years went to somebody else. The truck is just sitting behind a yard, and every month it sits is another month of insurance on something that isn’t turning a wheel.
The lots north-east around the East Quarry and Greenhill Materials, about 7 to 8 miles out, hold a fair number of trucks in exactly that position — and so do the yards down toward the Delaware Sand Plant 9 miles south.
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.