Meigs County
Where Decatur sits
Decatur is in Meigs County, and the census counts 1,898 people here, at 500 per square mile, with a median age of 42.4 years.
What we know about Decatur is what the census records and what Tennessee law requires; the yards, pits and depots we have researched elsewhere have no entry here. So the question we can actually answer is how a truck gets out, not who else might want it.
Tennessee weight law
That road has a number on it
That route out is where the state stops being an abstraction. Tennessee sets the ceiling before any local sign lowers it.
In Tennessee the total gross weight of any vehicle or combination on a public highway is 80,000 lb (Tenn. Code Ann. § 55-7-203).
In Tennessee the single axle weight limit is 20,000 lb (Tenn. Code Ann. § 55-7-203).
In Tennessee the tandem axle group weight limit is 34,000 lb (Tenn. Code Ann. § 55-7-203).
So what leaves Decatur
That rule meets 1,898 people in Decatur, Meigs County, at a household median around $42,578 and a density of 500 per square mile. A truck sitting in a driveway here is a working asset that has stopped working, whatever the size of the place it stopped in.
What we take out of a place like this is sleeper tractors and day cabs, dump trucks and roll-offs, box trucks and flatbeds, pickups and duallys, and the service and utility bodies that outlive the business that bought them.
Straight answers
The questions we get asked in Decatur
Do you actually come to Meigs County? Yes. 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.
Do you come out to a place this size? 1,898 people at 500 per square mile is a place we reach the same way we reach anywhere else. The truck decides whether we buy it, not the population.
How do you pay? We pay either cash or electronically.