We buy trucks in Taylors

The federal mine regulator records seventeen employees at the Sandy Flat Quarry, 6.75 miles from the centroid of the census designated place this page is filed under.

Within ten miles of that gate the bridge file records 231 structures, of which 39 are posted for load and 41 are coded below legal loads — thirty-four the state’s and seven the county’s. The nearest of them is 0.55 miles from the gate, so the first restricted crossing sits barely half a mile from the working face.

Half a mile. Whatever leaves that pit starts by working around something.

MSHA Mine Data Retrieval System; U.S. Census 2024 Gazetteer, South Carolina places.

Those forty-one resolve into one number and it is the hardest kind. The lowest crossing a commercial vehicle can use anywhere in the circle is rated 11.0 metric tonnes, about 12.1 US tons, on a state secondary road 4.14 miles out.

11.0 tonnes is exactly the tare weight of an empty tandem dump. The crossing takes the truck and not one kilogram more: the payload over it is zero. The raw minimum in the set is 5.8 tonnes, well under that tare, so a good deal of what is restricted near this pit is closed to a commercial vehicle outright and the lowest one that opens, opens empty.

That same structure sets the ceiling for the quarry at Greer as well, 9.92 miles from its gate against 4.14 from this one. Two working faces in one county held by a single crossing, and the nearer of the two is here.

FHWA National Bridge Inventory 2025, South Carolina file, items 21, 41, 64 and 70.

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, and whether the state publishes a posted-bridge list at all.

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

That is the road; the paperwork is one sentence and two fixes. A lost title has a counter replacement, and where none exists there is a bonded route. Neither stops a sale.

§ 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 is discretionary — the department may require one by the Highway Patrol rather than always requiring it — and the application asks 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. Dump trucks and aggregate haulers, day cabs and road tractors, 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 quarry 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. Stone out of the Sandy Flat Quarry gate 6.75 miles away, threading past a restriction 0.55 miles from it, is where a lot of it turns up.

• 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 has spent years going the long way round. Does that show on a truck?Usually in hours rather than miles, and sometimes in the brakes. Tell us the hours if you have them — a truck that detoured around a crossing admitting nothing has done more work than its odometer says.
• Do you come out here?Yes — the place, the Sandy Flat Quarry gate 6.75 miles out, and the roads past the crossing 4.14 miles from it. 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. A truck sitting behind a shop since somebody stopped driving it, costing insurance every month it does not turn a wheel.

Around the Sandy Flat Quarry gate 6.75 miles out, and on the roads that meet a restriction 0.55 miles from it, 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.