Sell your semi truck for cash in Harrogate the easy and convenient way

Rogers Group works the Claiborne County Quarry with four people on it, and the state register agrees about where it is to within 0.08 miles — listed as “Rogers Group Inc. - Speedwell, TN (Claiborne)”, approved aggregate producer 11300008. So the stone here is approved for Tennessee highway work.

Note the name the register uses. The pit is filed on this page because Harrogate holds the nearest town centre, and that centre is 8.06 miles away. The state calls it Speedwell. If you worked there and would not have called it a Harrogate pit, you are right, and it is still this page.

Claiborne County carries four rows in all: this quarry, two more at Tazewell with six and seven people, and the Kopper Glo coal preparation plant over at Cumberland Gap. Small operations, spread wide.

That spread is the point, and it runs across the state line. Within ten miles of this pit the bridge inventory records 103 structures — 53 from the Tennessee file and 50 from the Kentucky one. The circle is computed from every state file with structures inside the radius rather than from Tennessee alone, because anything else would describe half a road network.

Of those, 28 are coded posted for load and 20 are coded below legal loads, 7 of them county-maintained. The nearest is 6.05 miles out and the lowest operating rating among them is 4.5 metric tonnes, well below an empty tandem dump. The lowest rating at or above the eleven-tonne commercial floor is 19.3 tonnes, about 21.3 US tons, and it is set by a Kentucky structure 8.59 miles out rather than by anything in this state.

One caution about our own file, stated rather than hidden: a second reading in this node’s record gives a different count of postings and a different binding cap for the same circle. The two disagree. The figures above are the ones tied to a named inventory record and to the state-line computation, and they are the only ones this page relies on. The disagreement has been reported rather than averaged away.

FHWA National Bridge Inventory 2025, Tennessee and Kentucky files, items 21, 41, 64 and 70. Operating rating is the gross weight of the rating vehicle.

That last detail is worth sitting with. The crossing that limits a loaded vehicle out of this pit is not in Claiborne County and not in this state, and a driver planning a route north does not get to treat the state line as the edge of the problem.

It cuts into the paperwork as well. A load that leaves this gate can be under one state’s weight enforcement within a few miles of being under another’s, and the rules a driver has to satisfy change with the sign at the line rather than with the road surface.

For a machine, the consequence is route knowledge rather than payload. The binding structure sits 8.59 miles out across the line, and a truck that worked this Claiborne County pit was driven by somebody who knew which crossings and which state they were on, and that counts for more here than an odometer reading.

On the Tennessee side of that line, the statute 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.

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.

All of that iron is iron we buy. Tandem dumps and aggregate haulers off the Rogers Group pit, and the plant trucks that go with a four-person operation.

Day cabs, road tractors, box trucks, straight trucks, flatbeds, rollbacks, tankers, service bodies, work trucks and pickups too — not a Claiborne County 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 pit is really at Speedwell.Same operation, same page. The state register uses that name and our list files it to the nearest town centre, which is eight miles off in Claiborne County.
• It ran into Kentucky as much as Tennessee.Expected here, and not a problem. Half the bridges within ten miles of the Rogers Group pit are in the Kentucky file. Tell us where it actually worked.
• How do you pay?Cash or electronic payment, whichever suits you.

Beyond a machine that has simply done its work, the reasons here are ordinary ones. Retiring. A medical that went the wrong way. A four-person operation losing the one person who drove.

The yards around Claiborne County, from the Rogers Group pit across towards Cumberland Gap, 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.