We buy trucks in Duncan

One rail-yard row is attached here, under Norfolk Southern, 2.73 miles from the town centroid and reached by nearest-centroid fallback. Its name carries a vehicle manufacturer.

It is one of thirty-eight manufacturer-named rows across the national dataset, and that figure is recorded as a floor rather than a count: the scan that produced it matched whole words against a list of marque names, so anything named differently was missed.

Its coordinate falls inside Greer city, which holds a city page of its own, while the row stays attached here. A name, a filing and a location pointing at three things is the ordinary situation in this dataset rather than the exception.

City-pages node list, rail-yard rows; U.S. Census 2024 Gazetteer, South Carolina places.

That name is the obvious thing to build a page on, and it is the thing this page will not build on. What is handled at the yard could not be determined from any source read for the batch.

The temptation is specific and worth naming. A classification yard named for a manufacturer, 2.73 miles from one town and physically inside another that holds a large assembly plant, invites a paragraph about finished vehicles and inbound components. Every sentence of it would be inference dressed as fact, and a seller reading it could not tell which was which.

What is solid: a Norfolk Southern row, 2.73 miles out, inside Greer, traffic unrecorded. Every one of the 2,459 rail-yard rows in this dataset is recorded as the mean of a track polyline’s vertices rather than as a surveyed facility point, so a yard is placed where its track averages out and not where its gate is. The radius of 75 miles attached to each row is a constant applied across the whole set and flagged as estimated, not a measurement of this one.

City-pages node list, rail-yard rows; U.S. Census 2024 Gazetteer, South Carolina places.

Those roads carry a loaded truck under one statute either way. S.C. Code § 56-5-4140 sets a single axle at 20,000 pounds and two axles four to seven feet apart at 35,200, both written as including all enforcement tolerances, with 80,000 pounds gross on the interstate.

§ 56-5-4160 carries a general ten per cent enforcement tolerance applying to those limits. Because the axle figures are printed as already including tolerance, the relief attaches to the gross and not to the axle.

Unprocessed forest products draw fifteen per cent instead, on non-interstate routes only. The axle-spacing relief in the same section covers dump trucks, dump trailers, trucks carrying agricultural products, concrete mixing trucks, fuel oil trucks and line trucks, at 20,000 pounds per axle plus scale tolerances.

What was not established: the general gross and axle schedule off the interstate, seasonal restrictions, whether a posted-bridge list is published, and the bridge layer here, which was not searched. That absence is a gap rather than a finding.

S.C. Code § 56-5-4140 and § 56-5-4160. Information, not legal advice.

Beyond the weight rules, the paperwork is that one sentence. Everything after it is a fix rather than a category: a lost title has a counter replacement, and where none exists there is a bonded route.

§ 56-19-480 sets salvage at repair cost — parts and reasonable market charges for labour — reaching seventy-five per cent of the truck’s market value immediately before the damage, and makes salvage and total loss the same term with no age limb at all. § 56-19-485 brands the cause as well as the fact: salvage rebuilt, salvage flood rebuilt, or salvage fire rebuilt.

The rebuilt inspection here is a power rather than a step, which is the exception rather than the rule: New Jersey and North Dakota both require one before a rebuilt title issues, and so does every other state on file in this research. So nobody can tell you in advance whether a given truck gets inspected. The application asks instead for the source of the parts used and what they cost.

The lien clock and the lien release, plate return on a sale, and apportioned registration were not established for South Carolina, and nothing is written here about them.

S.C. Code § 56-19-480 and § 56-19-485. Information, not legal advice.

None of that narrows what we will look at. Car haulers and day cabs, road tractors, dump trucks and aggregate haulers, flatbeds and rollbacks, tankers, service bodies, box trucks and straight trucks, and the pickups and work trucks that go with a crew.

Box trucks and straight trucks are not a rail-served thing in particular — they are everywhere. They are on the list because we buy them here too.

Whatever you drive, the offer doesn’t change. We buy all of them, here and over in Greer where the Norfolk Southern row 2.73 miles away actually sits.

• 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. Rust is not a disqualifier.
• The engine is out of it. Is that different?Yes, and that is the line. A tired engine is fine; an engine that has been pulled out and sold means we can’t buy the truck.
• What about the title?We need one unless the truck is old enough that it never had one. Lost titles have a counter replacement; where none exists there’s a bonded route.
• It’s a car hauler and the deck has been robbed for parts. Is that still a truck you want?Tell us what is missing. A tired deck is a repair; ramps or a hydraulic section removed and sold is the completeness line, and that is the part that decides it rather than the condition.
• Do you come out here?Yes — the town, over into Greer where the Norfolk Southern yard 2.73 miles off actually stands, and the towns around both. We come to you and drive it away, we come to you and tow it, we buy it remotely and arrange the tow, or you drive it to us.

Those questions come up because the reasons for selling are mostly personal. Retiring. A medical that went the wrong way. A contract that ended and did not get replaced. A truck sitting on a yard since somebody stopped driving it, costing insurance every month it does not turn a wheel.

Here, and over in Greer where the Norfolk Southern row 2.73 miles off actually stands, the same trucks come up for sale for the same reasons.

Most of those aren’t happy reasons, and we don’t treat them like they are. Somebody wants a straight answer and the truck gone by the end of the week. That’s what we’re here for.