Hickman County
The register calls it Bon Aqua; the list files it under Fairview
Rogers Group works the Hickman County Quarry with eleven people on it. The state register carries the operation as approved aggregate producer 34100001, under the name “Rogers Group - Bon Aqua Aggregate”, and the two coordinates agree to 0.03 miles — about fifty yards, which for this check is agreement to the gate.
So one hole in the ground carries three names. The mine regulator’s nearest-town field says Bon Aqua. The state’s producer register says Bon Aqua. Our own list files it under Fairview, 4.69 miles away, because Fairview’s is the nearest town centre.
None of the three is wrong, and it is worth saying plainly: if you are selling a truck that worked this pit, it does not matter which of those names is on the paperwork. It is the same operation and the same page.
The road network
The first posted crossing is seven tenths of a mile from the gate
Within ten miles of the pit the inventory records 218 structures and 13 are posted for load, 8 of them county-maintained. The nearest is 0.7 miles out — which is to say the restriction starts more or less at the end of the access road.
The lowest raw rating in that set is 4.9 metric tonnes, about 5.4 US tons, well below an empty tandem dump and so not a crossing this trade uses at all. Ten of the thirteen carry a rating of 11.0 tonnes or better, 77 per cent of them.
The figure that actually binds a loaded vehicle is the lowest of those ten: 14.9 metric tonnes, about 16.4 US tons. Over the eleven tonnes an empty tandem already weighs, that leaves room for roughly 3.9 tonnes of stone — against the twenty-five or so a legal 80,000 lb truck carries.
Across Hickman County as a whole, 25 of 240 county-maintained bridges are posted, 10.4 per cent against a statewide county-maintained rate of 12.9.
FHWA National Bridge Inventory 2025, Tennessee file, items 21, 41, 64 and 70. Operating rating is the gross weight of the rating vehicle. Tennessee codes item 41 more broadly than neighbouring states, so the true count of load restrictions is lower than the posted count suggests.
Part loaded, or the long way round, and both cost the same thing
That last figure is the one that shapes the work. Three and nine tenths of a tonne is about a sixth of a legal load. A route with that crossing on it is not a route a loaded truck takes; it is a route a truck takes twice, or goes round.
Either way the arithmetic is the same. Shifting a given tonnage takes more trips, and more trips are more hours, more starts, more loading cycles and more brake work — on an odometer reading that does not grow in proportion.
Which is why on a machine from around here we ask about hours and about the loading gear before we ask about miles. A truck off the Hickman County Quarry with modest mileage may have done considerably more work than the clock suggests, and that is not a mark against it. The same goes for anything that ran the Bon Aqua roads.
Tennessee weight law
Ten per cent for eleven trades, and stone is outside the list
Those crossings sit under a statute that hands this trade nothing extra to work with.
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
Past 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 Hickman County Quarry, and the plant trucks that go with an eleven-person operation.
Day cabs, road tractors, box trucks, straight trucks, flatbeds, rollbacks, tankers, service bodies, work trucks and pickups too — not a Hickman 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 Fairview
- 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 truck worked out of Bon Aqua, not Fairview.Same pit, same page. The register uses one name and our list uses the other.
- Low miles for its age.Common here and not a worry. With a posted crossing 0.7 miles from the gate and a cap that admits about 3.9 tonnes of stone, work around this pit comes in trips rather than distance. Tell us the hours if the meter still reads.
- 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 contract finishing and the plant that served it having nowhere to go next.
The yards around Hickman County, from the Hickman County Quarry out towards Bon Aqua, 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.