Lawrence County
A quarry named for this town, sitting in the next county
The row filed here is the Lawrenceburg Quarry & Mill, a crushed-limestone operation under Rogers Group with 8 people on the federal mine record. It is named for this town, which is the seat of Lawrence County, and the node list gives it a county of Lawrence.
Its coordinate is in Giles County. The Census Block API puts the point 8.02 miles east of the middle of Lawrenceburg, across the county line. Eight miles is inside the fifteen-mile window this project uses to flag a mis-attached row, so a distance test on its own would have let it through — and the named county would still have been wrong.
Which of the two is at fault is not established. The coordinate may be displaced or the county field may be, and the distinctive signature left by a known coordinate error elsewhere in this data is absent here. What can be said is that they disagree, and that every road figure below was computed at the coordinate and therefore describes Giles County.
That distinction matters for one practical reason
Those figures describe the road network around a point in Giles County, not around the middle of Lawrenceburg, and they are not interchangeable. Within ten miles of the coordinate the Federal Highway Administration’s 2025 bridge file records 175 structures, 16 of them posted for load and 10 of those maintained by a county. The nearest posted bridge is 0.4 miles off.
Every one of the 16 rates at or above the weight of an empty tandem dump, so none of them stops a commercial vehicle outright. The lowest rating at that level is 12.0 metric tonnes, about 13.2 US tons, and that is the number that binds: over the tare of an empty tandem it leaves room for roughly a tonne of stone, against the twenty-five or so a legal 80,000 lb truck carries. A loaded aggregate truck crosses that one part loaded or not at all.
Across Giles County as a whole 13 of 174 county-maintained bridges are posted, 7.5 per cent. Tennessee codes more bridges as posted than its neighbours do — only 42 per cent of the ones it flags also fail the second test — so the real restriction count is lower than the raw figure.
And the quarry itself does not feed state highway work
Beyond the roads, one more thing separates this operation from most of the others in this state. No approved aggregate producer appears within 5 miles of the coordinate carrying Rogers Group or this town's name, so stone from here is not approved for use on a Tennessee highway project.
The nearest register entry that shares the operator name sits 11.2 miles away, and eleven miles is too far to establish that two records describe the same pit. Every record in that register reads active, so absence from it is not evidence that anything has closed. What it means is that this output goes to private, county and industrial customers instead of to state work.
For a seller that is a fact about the customer, not about the truck. A tandem hauling to a county road crew wears the same way as one hauling to a state contract.
Tennessee weight law
The weight rules, and why crushed stone gets no margin
Whichever county the load is actually crossing, the weight rules are the same ones.
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
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
So the list is a broad one. Tandem dumps and aggregate haulers off the Rogers Group pit and off the Pulaski Quarry over in Giles County, day cabs, road tractors, box trucks, straight trucks, flatbeds, rollbacks, tankers, service bodies, work trucks and pickups.
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 Lawrenceburg
- 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.
- Do you buy in the surrounding county too?Yes, and here that is two counties rather than one. We buy across Lawrence County and across Giles County next door, where this quarry’s coordinate actually falls.
- It has been on and off a posted county road for years.Running part loaded is hard on a driveline but it is ordinary work, and it is not a mark against a truck. Tell us the hours if the meter still reads.
- How do you pay?Cash or electronic payment, whichever suits you.
Why people call
Beyond all of that, the reasons here are the ordinary ones. Retiring. A medical that went the wrong way. A contract finishing and the truck that served it having nowhere to go next.
Small aggregate outfits either side of the Lawrence County line, and down towards the Pulaski Quarry in Giles County, 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.