We buy trucks in Penn Estates

The Sterling Quarry reports one employee to Mine Safety and Health Administration, under Eureka Stone Quarry. Its coordinate falls half a mile from this place’s centre — inside it rather than near it, which is unusual in this data.

A one-person operation runs no highway fleet of its own, so the truck connection here runs through the district rather than through the pit. The district is the western edge of the Poconos, and it is busy.

That coordinate does more work than usual, because the row’s own county field disagrees with it. The named town lies in the county the federal reverse-geocoder returns, not in the county the row claims, so the coordinate and the town corroborate each other and the county field is the outlier.

It is the cleanest of the routes developed for resolving that kind of disagreement, and it is not always available: the same route failed twice elsewhere, where the town agreed with the county instead. Every county figure on this page is computed from the coordinate.

Here Monroe County restricts 13 township-maintained structures against four of its own, and neighbouring Pike County 11 against seven, so a page quoting only the county figure would describe a quarter of the restricted local network. Under 67 Pa. Code ch. 189 the townships are therefore the authorities a lane must satisfy.

That allocation is the expensive part. 75 Pa.C.S. § 4941 caps gross weight at 80,000 lb for a vehicle or combination on a Pennsylvania highway, and 67 Pa. Code ch. 189 puts the posting power and the bond with the local authority rather than with one state office.

Where townships own the restricted bridges, each is able to require a permit, security of $6,000 to $50,000 per linear mile, and an excess-maintenance agreement covering restoration beyond the normal with betterment excluded. A lane crossing three townships answers to three of them.

Section 189.3 is the relief, and it is narrow but real: over-posted-weight local traffic may exceed a posted limit unless the authority determines damage is likely, proved by a shipping document showing a destination ON the posted highway. So a quarry serving addresses on its own posted lanes may never trigger any of it.

75 Pa.C.S. § 4941; 67 Pa. Code ch. 189; 67 Pa. Code § 189.3. Information, not legal advice.

Those crossings are not counted from one state file. Within ten miles of this quarry there are 236 structures — 225 from Pennsylvania and 11 from New Jersey — because the circle crosses the state line and is computed from every state file with structures inside it.

Eighteen are coded below legal loads, only two of them county-maintained. The nearest is 2.20 miles out and the lowest operating rating among them is 3.6 metric tonnes, under the level at which any commercial vehicle crosses even empty.

The lowest that clears the commercial floor is 13.6 tonnes, about fifteen US tons, set by a structure 6.55 miles out. That admits roughly 2.6 tonnes of stone over an empty tandem’s tare — a tenth of a legal load, so a loaded truck here is near the cap on the crossings that bind.

None of that touches the title, which is simple. Lost has a counter replacement; a truck that never had one has a bonded route.

Pennsylvania sets no total-loss percentage. Under 75 Pa.C.S. § 102 a salvage vehicle is one whose repair cost would exceed the value of the repaired vehicle, a comparison against the value after repair rather than against the value before the damage.

And 75 Pa.C.S. § 4702 requires an annual safety inspection of every vehicle, so the record exists year by year. Emissions do not reach this trade at all: anything over 9,000 lb gross vehicle weight rating is exempt and every diesel is exempt.

75 Pa.C.S. § 102; 75 Pa.C.S. § 4702. Information, not legal advice.

Those records sit behind resort-country trucks as much as quarry ones: dumps and aggregate haulers off the stone, flatbeds and day cabs on construction and delivery work, lowboys that moved plant, plus rollbacks, service bodies and pickups.

A truck running between the Sterling Quarry and the Pocono Sand Plant about 6.6 miles south-west, or down to Hercules Cement about 17.3 miles south, crossed restricted township structures on most routes and carried part loads over them. Springs, hoist and pins show that first.

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 only ever ran part loads.With a 13.6-tonne cap on the binding crossing, that is how the work is done here and it is not a mark against the truck.
• Can a transporter reach it?Usually. Tell us which road it stands on and we will check the crossings before the day rather than on it, because the township bridges bind first around here.
• 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 worked out of the army depot.Ordinary here. Tobyhanna Army Depot is about 15.0 miles north-west and contractor disposals off it are regular.

Those contracts are seasonal in resort country, so a run ends and a hauler who bought for it has more than the next job needs. That moves several vehicles at once.

Beyond it the ordinary ones — retirements, estates, and a truck parked since the last season it was needed. Between the Pocono Quarry Plant about 6.8 miles south and Ardent Mills about 9.1 miles north-west they turn up steadily.