Lebanon County
A lime plant with its own quarry beside it
The pairing here is unusually tight. The Millard Lime Plant runs about 2 miles east-northeast and the Millard Quarry, twenty-two people on broken limestone, sits about 3 miles out — the stone and the kiln that burns it, within a mile of each other.
A flour mill runs in the borough itself, which is a different trade entirely, and the Fiddlers North Quarry works broken stone with twelve people about 9 miles west-southwest.
Burnt lime is not crushed stone
That kiln is what separates this place from an ordinary quarry town. Burnt lime is chemically active — it reacts with water and generates heat — so it travels dry and covered, and a wet load is a dangerous one rather than merely a spoiled one.
So the equipment is sealed and better maintained than a tipper fleet, and the bodies corrode from the inside anyway. Between the Millard Lime Plant about 2 miles off and the Millard Quarry about 3 miles away, that is the pattern on nearly everything we see.
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.
Valley roads, and a federal reservation north
It is the road network rather than the distance that shapes those runs. This is farm country, and the lanes between the quarry, the kiln and the jobs are township roads built for farm traffic.
In Pennsylvania the binding figure on such a lane is frequently posted rather than statutory, and townships maintain 3,198 structures against the counties’ 2,599. Between the Fiddlers North Quarry and the Fort Indiantown Gap reservation about 9 miles north-northwest, the plate is almost always 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
Both trades come to us. Mixers and tankers off the lime work. Dump trucks and aggregate haulers off the Millard Quarry lanes. Box trucks and straight trucks off the milling side, plus day cabs and road tractors, flatbeds, rollbacks, service bodies and the pickups and work trucks around them.
Most of it works between the Millard Lime Plant, the Millard Quarry and the Fiddlers North 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 Palmyra
- 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 eaten from inside.Around the Millard Lime Plant that is what the product does, and it does not stop a sale.
- 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 Millard Quarry and the Fiddlers North Quarry 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 kiln changing hands, the reasons are the usual ones. A retirement. A family operation down to one truck. A machine parked behind a barn, insured and earning nothing.
Yards near the Millard Quarry and out toward the Rutherford Yard, about 10 miles west-southwest, hold their share.