Brown County
Where Thunderbird Bay sits
Thunderbird Bay is in Brown County, and the census counts 702 people here, at 276 per square mile, with a median age of 45.8 years.
What we know about Thunderbird Bay is what the census records and what Texas law requires; the yards, pits and depots we have researched elsewhere have no entry here. So the question we can actually answer is how a truck gets out, not who else might want it.
Texas weight law
That road has a number on it
That route out is where the state stops being an abstraction. Texas sets the ceiling before any local sign lowers it.
In Texas the gross weight limit is 80,000 lb (Tex. Transp. Code § 621.101).
In Texas the single axle weight limit is 20,000 lb (§ 621.101).
In Texas the tandem axle weight limit is 34,000 lb (§ 621.101).
So what leaves Thunderbird Bay
That rule meets 702 people in Thunderbird Bay, Brown County, at a household median around $48,350 and a density of 276 per square mile. A truck sitting in a driveway here is a working asset that has stopped working, whatever the size of the place it stopped in.
What we take out of a place like this is sleeper tractors and day cabs, dump trucks and roll-offs, box trucks and flatbeds, pickups and duallys, and the service and utility bodies that outlive the business that bought them.
Straight answers
The questions we get asked in Thunderbird Bay
Do you actually come to Brown County? Yes. We come to you and drive it away, we come to you and tow it, we buy it remotely and arrange the tow, or you drive it to us.
Do you come out to a place this size? 702 people at 276 per square mile is a place we reach the same way we reach anywhere else. The truck decides whether we buy it, not the population.
How do you pay? We pay either cash or electronically.