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The operation here reports 5 employees to MSHA and is carried as a facility working industrial sand, under MSHA identifier 4003597. It is not a crushed-stone quarry, and that distinction runs through everything below.

Crushed stone is broken rock sold by the tonne for bulk fill and highway work. Industrial sand is sold for what it is chemically, which means processing, drying, screening and a customer who cares about the specification rather than the volume. The plant is more of the operation and the pit is less of it.

The node list carries four rows in Hardin County: this one, the Vulcan Construction Materials quarry filed under Savannah, Childers Hill at Counce, and Delaney Loop Sand and Gravel at Crump. Two sand operations and two stone ones, in a county that has both.

That commodity brings a rule with it. The Mine Safety and Health Administration’s respirable crystalline silica standard sets a permissible exposure limit of 50 micrograms per cubic metre with an action level at half that, and the metal and nonmetal compliance date of 8 April 2026 is now past.

It reaches an industrial sand operation harder than it reaches a stone quarry, because the material is substantially silica by design rather than rock that happens to contain some. That is a property of the commodity, not a finding about this site — no measured exposure here was found and none is claimed.

It matters on a truck page for one practical reason, and it is the same across Hardin County: compliance work of that kind tends to arrive with dust suppression, enclosure and water. A site that has been through it often has water trucks and wash plant equipment that were bought for the rule rather than for the haul.

Beyond the material, the record thins out. Which Mine Safety and Health Administration training part governs the facility was not determined: Part 46 covers surface sand and gravel and surface stone among others, Part 48 covers underground mines and surface areas of underground mines, and a processing facility is not resolved by that list without checking the site itself.

The weight relief question has a clearer answer, and it is a national one. Of eight states researched, three grant any relief to these commodities — Kentucky, Oklahoma and Tennessee — and all three exclude the interstate system. Georgia, Alabama, Texas and Wisconsin grant none at all.

So wherever a loaded sand truck out of Hardin County gets a margin, it does not get it on the interstate. Three states with no shared drafting history landed on the same exclusion, which is worth knowing before anybody plans a route around it.

Tennessee is one of those three, and this is what its version actually says.

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. Sand haulers and tandem dumps off the pit, and the plant trucks an industrial sand operation runs — water trucks, wash plant service bodies, loader transport. The same goes for anything off the Vulcan Construction Materials quarry over at Savannah.

Day cabs, road tractors, box trucks, straight trucks, flatbeds, rollbacks, tankers, work trucks and pickups too — not a Hardin 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.
• It hauled sand rather than stone.Same conversation. Industrial sand work at Childers Hill or here in Hardin County puts a slightly different life on a truck — more plant, more washing, more standing — but nothing about that counts against it.
• It is a water truck off the wash plant.We buy those. Tell us what body is on it and whether the pump and tank are still with the machine, because that is part of what is being sold.
• How do you pay?Cash or electronic payment, whichever suits you.

Beyond a machine that has simply done its jobs, the reasons here are ordinary ones. Retiring. A medical that went the wrong way. A plant reorganising and the truck that served it having nowhere to go next.

The yards around the sand operation, out past Delaney Loop Sand and Gravel and across Hardin 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. We can come and drive it away, come and tow it, or buy it where it stands and arrange the tow with no visit at all.