East Tennessee
A node name that resolves to nothing at all
The rail yard attached to this town is filed under the name FOR LINE, and that name resolves to nothing in the data. It is not a place. It is not a carrier mark matching the row’s own operator field. It is not a recognised descriptor of anything.
It may be a truncation or a typing error for something else, and what it was meant to say was not determined. We are not going to invent a meaning for it. The operator the row does carry is Knoxville & Holston River Railroad Company, Inc., a short line rather than one of the big carriers.
The attachment is loose too. The coordinate lies 6.08 miles from the town centroid, in no incorporated place at all, and the row is tied to this town by nearest-centroid fallback — meaning this was the closest named place, not that the yard is in it.
So read the county figure carefully, because it is the node’s
That matters for one specific thing. The node list records this row’s county as Knox, and it would be easy to read that as a statement about the town. It is not: it describes where the coordinate falls, six miles away and outside any incorporated place.
Knox County carries sixteen of this dataset’s Tennessee rows — cement, quarries, bulk transfer and several yards around Knoxville. That is sixth in the state rather than first: Shelby County holds 26, Davidson 25, Hamilton and Cumberland 20 each, and Marion 19. A truck working out of that ring could easily have been serviced here without the record showing it.
So this page states what the row establishes and stops there. A short-line yard, roughly six miles out, on a name nobody can decode.
And what a short line means for the truck side
Beyond the naming, the operator is the useful fact. Knoxville & Holston River Railroad runs local industry, shorter trains and interchange with a class one somewhere down the route, so the trucking that serves it is drayage rather than long-haul. Its yard here sits 6.08 miles out.
That work puts hours on a machine faster than it puts miles on it: short cycles, loaded one way, a lot of coupling and standing. A modest odometer on a day cab from around here is ordinary rather than remarkable, and the clutch, air system and fifth wheel carry the real story.
The commodities handled at the yard could not be determined from any source read for the research batch, and the coordinate is the mean of a track polyline’s vertices rather than a surveyed point, as all 2,459 rail-yard rows in this dataset are.
Tennessee weight law
Eleven trades get a margin on the weighing. Not every trade does
Those gaps do not reach the law, which does not vary by how well a row was researched.
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.
§ 55-7-103 lets the department set a lower maximum between 15 January and 15 April, and at any other time for repairs, weather or recent construction, with a week’s notice posted at the termini of the road and at every detour.
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. §§ 55-7-103, 55-7-104 and 55-7-203, 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
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.
What we buy here
All of that iron is iron we buy. Day cabs and yard tractors off drayage into the Knoxville & Holston River Railroad ground, and the tippers, flatbeds and service bodies that work the ring around it.
Road tractors, box trucks, straight trucks, rollbacks, tankers, work trucks and pickups too — not a Knox County thing in particular, they run everywhere.
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 Seymour
- 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 yard it ran out of has a name nobody recognises.That is the record’s problem rather than yours — the row reads FOR LINE and decodes to nothing, six miles out in Knox County. Tell us the operator or the gate and that is plenty.
- Low miles, lots of hours.Ordinary on drayage into a Knoxville & Holston River Railroad yard, where the cycle is short. We read hours, clutch and air system rather than the odometer on that history.
- How do you pay?Cash or electronic payment, whichever suits you.
Why people call
Beyond a machine that has simply done its jobs, the reasons here are ordinary ones. Retiring. A medical that went the wrong way. A haulage contract finishing and the truck that served it having nowhere to go next.
The yards out along the Knoxville & Holston River Railroad and around Knox 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.