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MSHA records 10 employees at the Tri County operation run by SRM Materials, with its coordinates 2.77 miles from the Census 2024 Gazetteer centroid of this town.

It is the only node row of any type the list carries in Grundy County. Twenty-two of the seventy-eight Tennessee counties represented hold exactly one row, and this county’s one row is this quarry. There is nothing else in the record to sit beside it.

TDOT’s Producer List carries the operation as approved aggregate producer 23100001, matched to this node by coordinate at 3.61 miles. That match lies outside the two-mile window the survey used originally and was recovered by widening the window to five miles while requiring the operator name to agree — so approval here rests on the company matching, not on the town matching as well.

Those roads carry more restriction than the county rate suggests. Within ten miles the National Bridge Inventory 2025 file for Tennessee records 90 structures, of which 14 carry a load posting on item 41 and 8 of those are county-maintained. The nearest is 2.4 miles out.

What is unusual is the floor. The lowest operating rating among the posted set is 16.2 metric tonnes, which is already above the 11.0-tonne commercial floor — so none of these is a light farm crossing outside the trade. Thirteen of the fourteen rate at 11.0 or better, 93% of them, and 16.2 is the binding cap, admitting about 5.2 tonnes of stone over the tare of an empty tandem dump.

Across Grundy County as a whole only 1 of 31 county-maintained bridges is posted, 3.2%. So the restriction inside the ten-mile circle is not a county-wide pattern; it is concentrated near the work.

That gap is worth stating rather than smoothing over. A county rate of 3.2% would suggest open roads, and fourteen postings inside ten miles of the quarry suggests the opposite. Both are true, because the circle around a working quarry is not a random sample of the county.

For a truck it means the restriction was local and constant. A machine off the SRM Materials ground met the same handful of capped crossings every day rather than meeting them occasionally on a long route.

That reads as part-loaded running and repeated route choice rather than as long-haul mileage, and it puts wear into running gear ahead of what the odometer shows. Only 42% of Tennessee’s item-41 bridges also fail item 70, so the true count that would change a haul is lower than fourteen — but the direction stands.

Those local caps are one limit. The statute is the other, and it does not vary by county.

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 SRM Materials Tri County ground, and the plant trucks that keep a crushing operation running — water trucks, fuel and lube bodies, loader transport.

Day cabs, road tractors, box trucks, straight trucks, flatbeds, rollbacks, tankers, service bodies, work trucks and pickups too — not a Grundy 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 ran part-loaded a lot of the time.That is what fourteen capped crossings inside ten miles does, and on the Tri County ground in Grundy County it is the normal working pattern rather than a sign anything was wrong with the truck.
• It worked highway jobs.Then it worked out of an approved source — the SRM Materials operation is producer 23100001 on TDOT’s list. Worth telling us, because it says something about how the machine was kept.
• 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 contract finishing and the plant that served it having nowhere to go next.

The yards around the Tri County pit and out across Grundy 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.