We buy trucks in Gettysburg

The scale changes sharply within a few miles of this borough. The quarry in the town works broken limestone with eleven people; Hanover Quarry, about 10 miles east, works the same rock with fifty-seven.

East of that the scale changes again. Charmian works traprock about 14 miles away with a hundred and fifty-five people — the largest single workforce anywhere in this lane — with the Hanover Lime Plant and the Alwine Brick Division both about 10 miles out.

That spread is what decides who owns the trucks. A hundred-and-fifty-person operation runs its own fleet on its own schedule; an eleven-person pit hires whoever is available, load by load.

So this borough produces both kinds of seller. Between the town pit and Charmian about 14 miles east, we get fleet calls and single owner-operator calls in roughly equal measure, and the equipment tells you which is which before anyone says so. Hanover Quarry, about 10 miles east, sits between the two in scale.

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.

It is the border rather than the distance that complicates the routing here. The nearest cement plant is at Union Bridge, about 17 miles south, and it is in Maryland — so a routine outbound run leaves Pennsylvania.

Inside the state the general ceiling is 80,000 lb gross and the binding number on a given lane is frequently a posted one, with townships maintaining 3,198 structures against the counties’ 2,599. Across the line the posting authority and the permit route are somebody else’s entirely.

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.

Both kinds of fleet come to us. Dump trucks and aggregate haulers off the limestone and traprock. Mixers and tankers on the lime and cement side. Day cabs and road tractors for the runs south, flatbeds, rollbacks, box trucks, service bodies and the pickups and work trucks around a crew.

Most of it works between Hanover Quarry, the Hanover Lime Plant and Charmian.

Whatever you drive, the offer doesn’t change. We buy all of them.

• 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 is titled in Maryland.Common about 17 miles from that line and not an obstacle. Tell us which state the paperwork is in and we will work from there.
• I am one truck, not a fleet.Around the smaller pits that is most of who we deal with, and one truck is a perfectly normal call.
• 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 Hanover Quarry and Charmian it is routine — give us the gate and a contact.

Beyond a pit finishing a phase, the reasons are the usual ones. A retirement. A hauler who lost the contract that filled the week. A truck left when somebody died and nobody in the family drives it.

Yards near the Hanover Lime Plant and out toward the Alwine Brick Division hold their share.