Hamilton County
Where Flat Top Mountain sits
Flat Top Mountain is in Hamilton County, and the census counts 1,004 people here, at 58 per square mile, with a median age of 25 years.
What we know about Flat Top Mountain 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 Flat Top Mountain
That rule meets 1,004 people in Flat Top Mountain, Hamilton County, at a household median around $121,131 and a density of 58 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 Flat Top Mountain
Do you actually come to Hamilton 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? 1,004 people at 58 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.