Sell your semi truck for cash in Tazewell the easy and convenient way

Two quarries sit under Tazewell. Vulcan Materials works one with seven people, approved for state highway work and matched cleanly at 0.27 miles. The Goins Hollow Quarry works six, and it is the reason this page exists in the shape it does.

Matching that second quarry to a state approval by distance alone fails twice over at the same time. The nearest producer, 1.22 miles away, is the Vulcan Materials record — a different company from the operator on this row, so attaching it would be a false positive. And the join misses a producer 4.11 miles away whose name contains this node’s own: Duracap Materials, at Goins Hollow.

Goins Hollow is a specific place and the register names it. So the farther record is about this hollow and the nearer one is about a neighbour, which is the exact reverse of what proximity would tell you.

That second record leaves one thing genuinely open. The mine regulator carries this operation under Midsouth Aggregates and the state materials register carries it under Duracap Materials.

Two agencies naming two companies at one place is consistent with a change of ownership recorded at different times, and nothing we have read establishes which name is current. So this page does not say. What it does say is that an approved aggregate source bearing this hollow’s own name exists here.

For a seller that matters in one practical way. If a machine’s history is filed under a company name that no longer appears anywhere, try the other one before deciding the records are gone.

Both pits sit close enough to the line that the bridge picture has to be read across two state files. Within 10 miles the inventory records 83 structures — 79 in Tennessee and 4 in Virginia.

Eleven are posted for load and six are coded below legal loads, four of them county-maintained, the nearest 4.51 miles out. The lowest raw rating is 3.9 metric tonnes, far below an empty tandem dump and so not a crossing anything commercial uses.

The cap that binds a loaded truck is 18.8 tonnes, about 20.7 US tons, set by a structure 9.32 miles away. Against an empty tandem’s eleven that admits nearly eight tonnes of stone — a substantial load, and an easier network than the county rate alone would suggest.

FHWA National Bridge Inventory 2025, read as a union across every state file with structures inside the radius, items 21, 41, 64 and 70.

Those distances are less useful here than they look, because of the shape of the ground. This is Ridge and Valley country, where folded and faulted Palaeozoic rock has weathered into long parallel ridges running north-east to south-west.

The roads follow the grain. Along a valley a route is straight and quick; across one it climbs and descends a ridge every few miles. So haul distance understates the cost of a job in the cross-grain direction and overstates it along the valley.

The valleys also hold the limestone and dolomite both these pits quarry, which is why the quarries line up in the same direction as the roads. A service area that looks circular on paper is long and narrow in practice, and a truck out of Goins Hollow has usually done more climbing than its mileage says.

Those valleys sit under a statute that hands this trade nothing extra on either side of the line.

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 on this side of the line.

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 Vulcan Materials pit and the Goins Hollow workings. Flatbeds and lowboys off the plant moves that go with two small operations in one hollow.

Day cabs, road tractors, box trucks, straight trucks, rollbacks, tankers, service bodies, work trucks and pickups too — not a Ridge and Valley 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 records name a company that no longer exists.Try the other one. Around Goins Hollow the mine regulator says Midsouth Aggregates and the state register says Duracap Materials, and neither of us can date the change.
• The truck is titled in Virginia.Ordinary here, where 4 of the 83 structures within 10 miles are on that side. It is just a different set of forms — tell us which state when you call.
• How do you pay?Cash or electronic payment, whichever suits you.

Beyond a machine that has simply done its years, the reasons here are the small ones. Retiring. A medical that went the wrong way. A six-man operation going down to one machine when a customer stopped ordering.

The yards up Goins Hollow and out towards the Vulcan Materials pit usually have one standing that has not moved since the last load went out.

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.