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One operation is filed under this town: Tinsley Limestone LLC, ten people, carried by MSHA as a surface operation under mine ID 4003553 with a commodity of Dimension Stone. Not crushed stone. Dimension stone is cut to size rather than broken to grade, which makes it a different trade from most of the quarries in this part of Franklin County.

What we do not have for this site is a road measurement. Most pages on this list carry a structure count inside ten miles, a nearest posted crossing and the rating that caps a loaded truck. For this one those figures were not researched, and we would rather say so than reach for a county average and present it as though it described the gate.

Absence of a measurement is not a measurement of zero. It does not mean the roads here are open, and it does not mean they are restricted. It means nobody has counted, and a page that filled the gap with a plausible number would be making something up.

MSHA Mine Data Retrieval System, Mines dataset.

That same Tinsley Limestone row carries the town name in capitals. It is a small thing and it has a practical edge: an exact string match treats a shouted name as a different place from a normally-cased one, so a search that would find one misses the other, and a record can end up orphaned from the place it belongs to.

It is the fourth instance of that normalisation class in this research slice; rows for Tignall in Georgia, and for Cameron and Dayton, carry the same defect in one direction or the other. Franklin County is simply where we happened to hit it again. We mention it because it is the same family of problem as a county field that disagrees with a coordinate: not a fault in the operation, a fault in the paperwork about it.

If your own paperwork spells the place differently from the title, or from the insurance, or from whatever the truck was registered under, that is ordinary and it does not stop a sale. Tell us where the truck is and we work from that rather than from the string.

Beyond the records, two federal rules touch a surface operation like Tinsley Limestone and are worth knowing if you drive to one. The first is the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s Part 46 training rule, which covers sand, gravel, surface stone, surface clay, surface limestone, colloidal phosphate and shell dredging. A surface operation working Dimension Stone sits inside that scope.

Part 46 requires site-specific hazard awareness training for over-the-road delivery drivers before they work at each mine site. Each site. A driver who has been trained at one gate has not thereby been trained at the next one, which is why a hauler running several pits carries several records rather than one.

The second is the respirable crystalline silica rule, which sets a permissible exposure limit of 50 micrograms per cubic metre and an action level of half that. The metal and nonmetal compliance date was 8 April 2026 and has passed. We state that as a property of the material rather than as a finding about this gate: no measured exposure at this operation was found, and none is claimed here.

MSHA Part 46; MSHA respirable crystalline silica rule, metal and nonmetal compliance date 8 April 2026. Information, not legal advice.

Those federal rules are the same everywhere. Weight relief is not, and the pattern is sharp enough to be worth stating. Of eight states looked at for this trade, five grant no commodity relief at all — Georgia, Alabama, Texas and Wisconsin give none, and Indiana turns the question into one about the road’s designation rather than about the load.

Three grant something. Kentucky allows a 10% axle tolerance and names crushed stone, bulk sand and concrete. Oklahoma allows 5% on the gross and 8% on the axle, naming rock, sand and gravel. Tennessee shields an axle citation and adds 500 lb for natural resources products.

And all three exclude the interstate. Three states with no shared drafting history landed on the same boundary independently: where this trade gets relief, it gets it off the interstate system and nowhere else. That is worth knowing before assuming a tolerance travels with the load.

Underneath all of that sits the state statute, and it gives this trade nothing extra.

Tenn. Code Ann. § 55-7-203 sets 80,000 lb gross, 20,000 lb on a single axle and 34,000 lb on a tandem, with up to 550 lb more for emissions-reduction equipment. Subsection (b)(7) deems weight restrictions to carry a ten per cent margin of error for logging, sand, coal, clay, shale, phosphate, solid waste, recovered materials, farm trucks and machinery trucks, off the interstate system only. Crushed stone is absent from that list, and so are limestone, aggregate and gravel.

§ 55-7-103 lets the department set a lower maximum between 15 January and 15 April, and at any other time for repairs, weather or recent construction, with a week’s notice posted at the termini of the road and at every detour.

And § 55-7-104 is the one that costs a working day. An overweight vehicle may not be moved until the load has been reduced into compliance or a permit obtained, and failing to comply is itself a Class C misdemeanour. It is not fined and waved on. It stops.

Tenn. Code Ann. §§ 55-7-103, 55-7-104 and 55-7-203, as summarised by the University of Tennessee County Technical Assistance Service. Information, not legal advice.

Beyond the weight rules the paperwork is short. A lost title has a counter replacement. Where none exists there is a bonded route. Neither one stops a sale.

The salvage rule is the one people repeat wrongly. Tennessee’s salvage and rebuilt part is built on the term passenger motor vehicle, and § 55-3-201 defines that as a vehicle ten model years old or less which, if it is a light-duty truck or a multipurpose vehicle, is rated at not more than nine thousand pounds gross.

So the seventy-five per cent threshold does not reach a truck rated above nine thousand pounds at any age, and does not reach a vehicle of any kind over ten model years old. Those limbs describe the class the part governs rather than exceptions inside it. Whether some other provision reaches such a vehicle was not determined and is not claimed here.

Tenn. Code Ann. § 55-3-201 and § 55-3-211, with the Tennessee Department of Revenue’s guidance. Information, not legal advice, and only as current as the day those were read.

Those rules reach every kind of iron we buy, and around a ten-person operation in Franklin County that is a wide range. The trucks that move cut stone off a dimension-stone site, and the loaders and service trucks that keep them going.

Day cabs, road tractors, box trucks, straight trucks, flatbeds, rollbacks, tankers, dump bodies, service bodies, work trucks and pickups as well — not a Tinsley Limestone thing in particular, they run everywhere.

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. 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 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, and where none exists there is a bonded route.
• The name is spelled differently on the title.Common, and this town has the problem in its own federal records — the Tinsley Limestone row shouts it in capitals. A name that does not string-match is a paperwork issue rather than a title issue and it does not stop a sale.
• What are the bridge limits round here?We do not know, and we are not going to guess. The road network around Franklin County’s Dimension Stone site has not been measured for this page, and an unmeasured road is not the same as an open one. What we can tell you is that getting the truck out is our problem to solve, not yours.
• Do you have to come out?No. We’ll drive it away, we’ll tow it, or we’ll buy it where it stands and arrange the tow with nobody coming out at all. Bringing it to us also works.
• How do you pay?Cash or electronic payment, whichever suits you.

None of that is usually the reason. The reasons here are ordinary ones. Retiring. A medical that went the wrong way. A job finishing and the truck that served it having nowhere to go next.

On a crew of ten there is a sharper version: one person stops and a tenth of the operation stops with them, and the truck that person drove is standing the next morning with nobody to take it on. Franklin County has quarries in it, but a dimension-stone outfit like Tinsley Limestone is not interchangeable with a crushed-stone one, and neither is the truck that served it.

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.