We buy trucks in Corsicana

One rail yard attaches to Corsicana: the Hill yard, recorded under the operator Union Pacific, with its coordinate 1.60 miles from the town centroid — inside the place rather than merely nearest to it.

That is the strongest attachment this data offers, and it is worth separating from the fallback used on towns whose nearest yard is somewhere out in the county. The Hill yard is genuinely in Corsicana, and it is the only rail-yard row attached here in the node list.

What moves through it could not be determined from any source read for this page. Naming a Class I operator and a distance is the honest extent of it; describing the freight would be describing something nobody measured.

That record carries one number worth disarming before it misleads anybody. Every rail-yard row in this dataset has a service radius of 75 miles attached to it, and that figure is a constant applied across the whole slice and flagged as estimated rather than measured anywhere.

So it is not a finding about Navarro County, and it is not a boundary on anything. The coordinate itself is computed too — the mean of a track polyline’s vertices rather than a surveyed gate address — which is why 1.60 miles should be read as a neighbourhood rather than an address.

None of that changes anything about selling a truck. It is here because a page quoting a distance to two decimal places owes you an account of what kind of number it is, and because the alternative is letting a slice-wide default read like a local fact.

Beyond the yard, the rules reaching a truck here are the state’s and they do not vary by county.

Texas sets gross weight at 80,000 pounds, a single axle at 20,000 and a tandem at 34,000, which are the plain federal figures. It does not grant a commodity variance the way Georgia and Kentucky do.

It grants permits instead, each written for a named industry: ready-mixed concrete, fluid milk, timber, and super heavy single-trip. There is no permit named for aggregate, stone, sand or quarry products, so those trades get the general permit and nothing else. The absence is the finding.

The general permit allows ten per cent over on the axle and five per cent over on gross, with a fifteen thousand dollar bond and the holder responsible for actual damage to load-restricted roads and bridges. Texas and Pennsylvania allocate road damage the same way, where Ohio instead puts a signposting duty on the mine operator.

Tex. Transp. Code § 621.101; Chapter 623 permits. Information, not legal advice.

Beyond the weight rules, the paperwork is a single 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. Both are ordinary and neither stops a sale.

Texas brands a truck salvage where it has damage to, or is missing, a major component part and the cost of repairs exceeds the actual cash value immediately before the damage — effectively one hundred per cent, against eighty per cent in Florida, Minnesota, Missouri and Oregon, seventy in Arkansas and sixty in Oklahoma.

Texas is the only state on file to exclude paintwork from that calculation, along with sales tax, and it carries a nonrepairable class with five separate routes into it. This county is not on the emissions inspection programme list, and diesel vehicles are exempt from that inspection in any case.

Tex. Transp. Code § 501.091. Information, not legal advice, and only as current as the date the rule file was last verified.

Those rules land the same way on every body style, and so does the offer. Whatever you drive, it does not change what we do next.

Day cabs and road tractors off the interstate lanes. Flatbeds, dump trucks, rollbacks, box trucks, straight trucks, reefers, service bodies, and the work trucks and pickups that go with a crew.

We buy all of them. Corsicana sits on the run between the Metroplex and Houston, so coming to you and driving it away is straightforward and coming to you and towing it is just as easy; we can also buy it remotely and arrange the tow, and you are welcome to drive it to us. The Union Pacific Hill yard 1.60 miles from the centroid is the one piece of freight infrastructure on file inside the city.

• 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.
• How quickly can you get here?Corsicana is well inside our normal range and we come to you as a matter of course. We can also buy it remotely and arrange the tow if you would rather not be there, and driving it to us stays open.
• What about the title?We need one unless the truck is old enough that it never had one. Lost titles have a counter replacement; where none exists there’s a bonded route.
• Which yard is it, exactly?The Hill yard, operated by Union Pacific, recorded 1.60 miles from the town centroid and inside the place. What it handles could not be determined, and the 75 miles of radius on that record is a dataset-wide estimate rather than a fact about Navarro County.
• My truck ran the interstate lane north.Then the odometer is the honest number and the engine hours will trail it. Tell us both, and tell us about the driveline. It does not change whether we buy it.

Those are the mechanics. The reasons behind a call are more personal than that.

Retiring. A medical that went the wrong way. A contract that ended, or one truck too many sitting behind a shop in Navarro County going nowhere.

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, around the Union Pacific yard 1.60 miles from the centre of town as much as anywhere.