Clinton County
A rail borough with a reserve centre beside it
This is a railway settlement rather than a mining one. A yard sits in the borough itself, the Lock Haven reserve centre about 3 miles southwest, and the Lock Haven row about 7 miles beyond it.
The stone is small and scattered. P Stone Inc works broken limestone with nine people about 5 miles east-southeast, and the Salona Plant works thirteen about 11 miles away. Bulkmatic Transport CO runs a bulk terminal about 13 miles east-northeast.
A thin map, and long empty legs
Those distances are what a truck here lives with. About 269 mapped freight nodes sit inside a day’s round trip, and the nearest operation of any size is a nine-person quarry about 5 miles off.
So the work is spread and the loaded legs are long. Between the Salona Plant about 11 miles east-southeast and Bulkmatic Transport CO about 13 miles the other way, a truck can cover the county in a morning and pick up two loads doing it.
Pennsylvania weight law
One general number, and a great many local ones
Those roads run under a single statutory ceiling. Under 75 Pa.C.S. § 4941 the maximum gross weight for a vehicle or combination on a Pennsylvania highway is 80,000 lb. The only allowance found in the section is 2,000 lb for vehicles fuelled primarily by compressed or liquefied natural gas or powered primarily by electric battery.
No commodity relief for stone, sand or natural resources was found in that section as consulted. That is not the same as establishing there is none — Pennsylvania runs a large permit apparatus under Title 67 — and it is written here as an open question rather than as an answer.
The penalty is a formula rather than a flat fine. A driver over the maximum or registered gross weight commits a summary offence and on conviction pays $75, plus $75 for each 500 lb or part of it beyond 3,000 lb over the limit. So the first 3,000 lb over is effectively a flat charge and everything past that climbs in steps.
75 Pa.C.S. § 4941; 67 Pa. Code ch. 189. Information, not legal advice, and only as current as the date the rule file was last verified.
River crossings decide the route
It is the west branch rather than the mileage that dictates which way a loaded truck goes. Crossings are few, so the shortest line and the legal line are rarely the same.
In Pennsylvania the binding weight on those lanes is frequently a posted figure rather than the general one, and townships maintain 3,198 structures statewide against the counties’ 2,599. Between P Stone Inc and the Newberry row about 13 miles east, the plate is usually a township’s.
Pennsylvania paperwork
We need a title — unless it never had one
Beyond the weight rules, that is the whole of it in one sentence. Everything after it is a fix rather than a category. If the title is lost, there is a counter replacement. If the truck never had one, there is a bonded route. Both are ordinary and neither stops a sale.
Two Pennsylvania rules are worth knowing because they run the opposite way to most states. There is no fixed total-loss percentage in statute: under 75 Pa.C.S. § 1232 the test is whether repair cost plus salvage value equals or exceeds actual cash value. And PennDOT defines a salvage vehicle by comparing the cost of repairs to the value of the repaired vehicle — every other state on file compares it to the value before the damage.
The other one protects old equipment. The salvage definition does not include a vehicle that would qualify as antique or classic but for its lack of restoration or maintenance. So a truck old enough to be antique cannot be called salvage merely because nobody restored it.
75 Pa.C.S. § 1232; PennDOT salvage and reconstructed-vehicle definitions. Information, not legal advice.
What we buy here
All of it comes to us. Day cabs and road tractors for the valley legs. Dump trucks and aggregate haulers off the quarry lanes, box trucks and straight trucks, flatbeds, rollbacks, service bodies and the pickups and work trucks a small outfit keeps.
Most of it works between P Stone Inc, the Salona Plant and Bulkmatic Transport CO.
Whatever you drive, the offer doesn’t change. We buy all of them.
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 Avis
- 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.
- Will you come out to the valley?We will, and we can also buy it remotely and arrange the tow without anyone driving out. Or you can bring it to us.
- What about the title?We need one unless the truck is old enough that it never had one. Lost has a counter replacement; a bonded route covers the rest.
- It is parked on railroad ground.Then we need a gate and a contact. Around the Lock Haven row that is routine and we work to their rules.
- How far is the nearest quarry?About 5 miles east-southeast to P Stone Inc, and about 11 miles to the Salona Plant.
Why people call
Beyond work drying up, the reasons are personal ones. A retirement. A medical that did not renew. A truck left when somebody died and nobody in the family drives it.
Yards near the Salona Plant and out toward Bulkmatic Transport CO, about 13 miles east-northeast, hold a few in that position.