We buy trucks in Hanover

Three separate mineral trades sit within a mile and a half of the middle of this borough. The quarry here works broken limestone with fifty-seven people, a lime plant runs about three-tenths of a mile off, and the Alwine Brick Division handles common clay and shale about a mile and a half out.

That is stone, burnt lime and fired clay from one small area — three different products with three different customers. Lincoln Stone works limestone with thirteen about 9 miles northeast, and the Thomasville Mine, sixty-eight people, is about 12 miles away.

Those three trades are why a local yard looks mismatched. Crushed stone moves in tipping bodies, burnt lime moves dry and covered because it reacts with water, and brick moves banded on flatbeds where a shifted load is a broken one.

So an operator here often runs three quite different trucks and keeps all of them. Between the Alwine Brick Division about a mile and a half off and the Thomasville Mine about 12 miles out, that is the ordinary shape of a fleet.

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 scale of the stone operation against the size of the roads that makes posting bite. A fifty-seven-person quarry generates far more loaded traffic than a village lane was built for, and in Pennsylvania the binding weight is frequently a posted figure rather than the general one.

The exemption turns on purpose rather than distance. Over-posted-weight local traffic may exceed a posted limit unless the authority determines a damage risk, so a load bound for the Alwine Brick Division is treated differently from one running through toward Lincoln Stone about 9 miles northeast.

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.

All three of those trades come to us. Dump trucks and aggregate haulers off the limestone. Mixers and tankers on the lime side. Flatbeds for brick, plus day cabs and road tractors, rollbacks, box trucks, service bodies and the pickups and work trucks around a crew.

Most of it works between the Alwine Brick Division, Lincoln Stone and the Thomasville Mine.

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 hauled lime and the body is pitted.That is what burnt lime does and it does not put us off. Around the Alwine Brick Division and the Thomasville Mine we see it constantly.
• 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 Lincoln Stone and the Thomasville Mine 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.

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 yard, insured for two years and turning no wheel.

Lots near Lincoln Stone and out toward the Toland Sand Plant, about 19 miles north-northwest, hold a few of them.