We buy trucks in Livingston

Rogers Group works a quarry here with eight people on it, approved for state highway work. What makes the spot unusual is what stands beside it: the state register carries a Rogers Group asphalt plant and an IMI ready-mix plant within a few hundred feet of the same point.

Three approved plants on one site is a different kind of operation from a quarry with a loadout. Stone, asphalt and concrete leaving one gate means three fleets rather than one — tandem dumps for the aggregate, insulated bodies and flow boys for the asphalt, and mixers for the ready-mix.

A second row sits under this town as well: Williams Family Stone Quarry #1, two people, cutting Crab Orchard stone under Silvara Stone. It works the same trade as the Cumberland Plateau district but lies outside its four counties, so the district’s own findings are not carried onto it here.

That register did something else for this page, and it is the only case of its kind in the whole lane. The node list carries a longitude for this quarry that is wrong by exactly two degrees.

The list gives a point that lands in Hancock County on the Virginia line, 112.48 miles from Livingston, and contradicting the list’s own county and city fields. The state register gives the same operation at Livingston in Overton County. The latitudes agree to about fifteen metres. In degrees, minutes and seconds the two longitudes read 83 18 03 and 85 18 08 — the minutes and seconds agree to about five arcseconds, and only the degrees field differs, by two.

So this is a typed digit, not a survey error, and it is the first node coordinate that could be both disproved and replaced from an independent authority. Every road and distance figure on this page is measured at the corrected point and stated as such. A sweep of all 147 Tennessee rows for the same signature returned this one and no other — and it was findable only because this is the one state whose materials register publishes a coordinate.

The earlier reading of the same row said this quarry was not approved for state work. That was measured at the wrong point, and it was wrong. It has been replaced rather than left standing.

Measured at that corrected point, the roads around Overton County are quiet. Within 10 miles the inventory records just 55 structures, 6 of them posted and 3 county-maintained, with the nearest 3.9 miles out.

Overton County posts 4 of its 41 county-maintained bridges, 9.8 per cent, a little under the statewide county rate of 12.9. The lowest raw rating among the six is 10.7 metric tonnes — just below an empty tandem dump, so not a crossing this trade uses.

The cap that binds a loaded vehicle is 13.6 tonnes, about 15.0 US tons, which over an empty tandem’s eleven leaves a bit over two and a half tonnes. A part load on that route, a full one everywhere else.

FHWA National Bridge Inventory 2025, Tennessee file, items 21, 41, 64 and 70, computed at the corrected coordinate. Operating rating is the gross weight of the rating vehicle.

Those crossings sit on top of a statute that hands none of the three plants anything 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.

Beyond the weight rules, the paperwork is one sentence.

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. Flow boys and insulated bodies off the asphalt plant. Mixers off the ready-mix side, and flatbeds off the Silvara Stone yard.

Day cabs, road tractors, box trucks, straight trucks, rollbacks, tankers, service bodies, work trucks and pickups too — not an Overton 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.
• Its paperwork puts it in the wrong county.That happens with this row. The node coordinate is two degrees out and lands near the Virginia line; the Rogers Group quarry is in Overton County. It is a records problem, not a problem with the truck.
• It hauled hot mix, not stone.We buy those. An asphalt body lives a different life — heat cycling, release agent, and a tailgate that takes a beating. Tell us about the body and the insulation.
• How do you pay?Cash or electronic payment, whichever suits you.

Beyond a truck that has simply done its loads, the reasons here are ordinary ones. Retiring. A medical that went the wrong way. A paving season ending and a truck with nothing booked behind it.

The yards around the Rogers Group plants and out across Overton County usually have one standing that stopped when the last job did.

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 by the end of the week. That’s what we’re here for.