McMinn County
Two people on the pit, and a register entry that nearly went unmatched
Rogers Group works the Englewood Quarry with two people on it. Two is a loader and a driver, not a plant, and it is the smallest crew on any operation this lane has reached in McMinn County — against five at the Athens Quarry and seven at Calhoun.
The interesting part is that the state register nearly missed it. TDOT’s producer list carries approved aggregate producer 25400008 as “Rogers Group - Englewood Aggregate”, and that entry sits 3.63 miles from where our own list puts the pit. The standard check looks two miles out and found nothing there. Widening the window to five miles while requiring the operator name to agree recovered the match.
That is worth saying because the alternative reading — a pit with no state approval, selling only into private work — would have been wrong, and it would have changed what we told you about where this stone goes.
The road network
Four postings, and every one of them clears a loaded truck
Within ten miles of the pit the inventory records 94 structures and only 4 are posted for load, 2 of them county-maintained, the nearest 2.3 miles out.
All four carry an operating rating of 11.0 metric tonnes or better — every posting in the circle, which is not something most pages in this lane can say. The lowest of them, and so the cap that binds a loaded vehicle, is 19.8 metric tonnes, about 21.8 US tons. Against the eleven tonnes an empty tandem dump already weighs, that admits close to nine tonnes of stone.
McMinn County as a whole posts 5 of its 122 county-maintained bridges, 4.1 per cent against a statewide county-maintained rate of 12.9.
FHWA National Bridge Inventory 2025, Tennessee file, items 21, 41, 64 and 70. Tennessee codes item 41 more broadly than neighbouring states, so the true count of load restrictions is lower than the posted count suggests.
So the miles on a machine from here are honest miles
Nothing on that network forces a detour and nothing forces a part load. A truck working out of the Englewood Quarry could take the direct route with the load it was built to carry, which is the opposite of the picture a few miles north around Calhoun.
What the roads cannot tell you is how hard the pit worked it. Two people is a small operation, and there is no published tonnage for it, so utilisation is a question we ask rather than one we answer from a file.
One more thing about the record: the pit sits 6.23 miles from the middle of Englewood. It is filed under this town rather than in it, and if you are a few miles out on a back road, you are still on this page.
Tennessee weight law
An easy network, and a weight rule that gives stone no help on it
Those open roads sit under a statute that still hands 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) grants a ten per cent margin of error on the weighing to logging, sand, coal, clay, shale, phosphate, solid waste, recovered materials, farm trucks and machinery trucks — off the interstate system only. Crushed stone is absent, and so are limestone, aggregate and gravel.
Tenn. Code § 47-26-812 adds an axle-citation shield and five hundred pounds for a natural resources load, from a weights-and-measures chapter about certified public weighers rather than the motor vehicle code. Off the interstate again.
And § 55-7-104 is the one that costs a working day: an overweight vehicle may not be moved until the load is reduced into compliance or a permit obtained, and failing to comply is itself a Class C misdemeanour.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 55-7-203 and § 55-7-104, and Tenn. Code § 47-26-812, as summarised by the University of Tennessee County Technical Assistance Service. Information, not legal advice.
Tennessee paperwork
We need a title — unless it never had one
Beyond the weight rules the paperwork is one sentence: we need a title unless the truck is old enough that it never had one.
Everything after that sentence is a fix rather than a category. 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.
What we buy here
All of that iron is iron we buy. Tandem dumps and aggregate haulers off the Rogers Group pit here, and the same off the Athens Quarry and the Calhoun Quarry up the road.
Day cabs, road tractors, box trucks, straight trucks, flatbeds, rollbacks, tankers, service bodies, work trucks and pickups too — not a McMinn County thing in particular, they run everywhere.
Whatever you drive, the offer doesn’t change. We buy all of them.
We buy complete trucks. If the engine, transmission, doors, rear ends, drive shafts, wheels or anything under the hood have been removed, we can’t buy it. Small things — a missing bumper — are fine.
Straight answers
The questions we get asked in Englewood
- 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.
- High miles on a quarry truck.Not suspicious around Englewood, where four postings sit in a ten-mile circle and all four clear a loaded tandem. Nothing here forced it to run short or go round.
- The pit is a few miles out of town.6.23 miles, and it makes no difference to us. We buy across McMinn County.
- How do you pay?Cash or electronic payment, whichever suits you.
Why people call
Beyond a machine that has simply done its work, the reasons here are ordinary ones. Retiring. A medical that went the wrong way. A two-person operation losing the one person who drove.
The yards around McMinn County, from the Rogers Group pit out towards the Athens Quarry, usually have one standing that never got its next job.
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. That’s what we’re here for.