Marshall County
A quarry that is where it says it is, and approved for state work
The row here is the Lewisburg Quarry, crushed limestone under Rogers Group with 8 people on the federal mine record, its coordinate 1.12 miles from the middle of town. Name, attachment and county all agree, which sounds unremarkable and is less common in this data than it ought to be.
It also appears in the state’s own producer register, as approved aggregate producer 32800005 under the entry "Rogers Group - Lewisburg Aggregate", matched to this coordinate at 0.11 miles. A tenth of a mile is a coordinate match rather than a name match, which is the difference between two records that agree and two records that merely sound alike.
Only facilities carried on that register may supply a Tennessee highway project. So this one demonstrably does: stone loaded here goes into state road work as well as private and county jobs.
Which puts a particular kind of truck on these roads
That approval means sustained aggregate haulage rather than occasional loads, and the network it runs on is well mapped. Within ten miles of the quarry the Federal Highway Administration’s 2025 file records 199 structures, 21 posted for load and 10 of those county-maintained, the nearest 0.9 miles off.
All 21 rate at or above the weight of an empty tandem dump, and the lowest rating at that level is 18.0 metric tonnes, about 19.8 US tons. Over the tare of an empty tandem that leaves room for about seven tonnes of stone — a useful part load, well short of the twenty-five a legal 80,000 lb truck carries, and a good deal more generous than the caps a driver meets in some of the counties nearby.
Across Marshall County 9 of 134 county-maintained bridges are posted, 6.7 per cent. Tennessee flags more structures than its neighbours do, so the true restriction count is lower than that.
And this is not the only pit in the county
Those four rows are all stone, which makes this a single-commodity county in the node list. Two sit at Chapel Hill — Volunteer Materials with 20 people and the Pottsville Quarry under Rogers Group with 10 — and a portable screening plant filed to Pulaski carries 5.
Three of the four are Rogers Group operations. That concentration is worth knowing when a truck comes up for sale: the buyers for a used tandem in this county are largely the same handful of outfits, and a machine that does not suit them can sit a long time.
We are not one of those buyers and we are not bidding against them. We buy the truck whether or not anybody local wants it.
Tennessee weight law
The weight rules, and why crushed stone gets no margin
Whatever those trucks are carrying out of the pits, 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 here and off Volunteer Materials at Chapel Hill, 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 Lewisburg
- 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. Marshall County holds four filed operations, all of them stone and three of them under Rogers Group, and we buy across all of it and beyond.
- It hauled aggregate its whole life.That is a hard life and we price the truck, not the story. Stone work shows in the body and the suspension first, and neither one stops us buying it.
- How do you pay?Cash or electronic payment, whichever suits you.
Why people call
Beyond the work itself, 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.
The yards between here and the Pottsville Quarry at Chapel Hill, and on down towards Marshall County's southern line, 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.