Centre County
The south end of the lime valley
The Oak Hall Quarry works broken limestone with thirteen people at this village, and it is the southernmost of the belt rather than part of the cluster. Everything else is over the ridge to the north.
That cluster is substantial. The Con Lime Plant is about 7 miles north-northwest, the Pleasant Gap Aggregate Plant #2 works fifty-one people about 7 miles, the Pleasant Gap Lime Plant about 8 miles, and the Bellefonte Lime Plant about 9 miles.
A ridge between the pit and the kilns
That ridge is what separates this village from the lime towns. There the quarries and the kilns sit within a mile or two of each other and the trucks never leave; here a load has to cross a gap to reach a customer.
So the runs are longer and the equipment is road equipment rather than pit equipment. Between the Oak Hall Quarry and the Curtin Gap Quarry about 11 miles north, a truck here does real mileage that a Pleasant Gap Aggregate Plant #2 truck never sees.
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.
A gap road, and the weight goes through it
It is the crossing rather than the distance that constrains a loaded run. A gap through a ridge carries everything, so a posting on it affects every operator at once rather than one lane.
In Pennsylvania the binding weight there is frequently a posted figure rather than the general one, and townships maintain 3,198 structures statewide against the counties’ 2,599. Between the Con Lime Plant and the Sunnyside row about 8 miles north, that 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. Dump trucks and aggregate haulers first, because that is what the pit runs. Day cabs and road tractors for the longer lanes, mixers and tankers on the lime side, flatbeds, rollbacks, box trucks, service bodies and the pickups and work trucks around a crew.
Most of it works between the Oak Hall Quarry, the Con Lime Plant and the Curtin Gap Quarry.
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 Boalsburg
- 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.
- It has more miles than a pit truck should.On this side of the ridge that is normal — the customers are all over the gap.
- 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.
- Can you collect from a quarry?Yes. Around the Oak Hall Quarry and the Pleasant Gap Aggregate Plant #2 it is routine — give us the gate and a contact.
- Do you need to come out?Not necessarily. We can buy it remotely and arrange the tow, come and drive it away, or take it if you bring it in.
Why people call
Beyond a pit finishing a phase, the reasons are the ordinary ones. A retirement. An operator down to one truck. A machine parked behind a barn, insured and earning nothing.
Yards near the Bellefonte Lime Plant and out toward the Curtin Gap Quarry hold a few of them.