Raven · Russell County · Virginia

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We buy all types of trucks from heavy to light duty

Dump trucks and tandems, day cabs and road tractors, flatbeds, box trucks, service bodies and the pickups that go with a crew — whatever shape it’s in, as long as it’s all there. Coal-country distances are long, so buying it remotely and arranging the tow is often the straightest route here.

How it works

Five steps. One buyer. Deal done.

  1. 1
    Fill out the form or give us a call
    Either one works — a real person answers.
  2. 2
    Tell us about the truck
    Year, make, model, mileage, and how it runs.
  3. 3
    Take photos of the truck inside and out and a video of the engine running
    Phone pictures are fine.
  4. 4
    We agree on a price
    It's an estimate until we see the truck in person.
  5. 5
    We inspect, we pay, we take the title and the truck
    Cash or electronic, your choice. Deal done.

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Russell County

A four-man stone mine and a coal prep plant, in two different counties

Two nodes attach to this place and they straddle a county line. E. Dillon Mine No. 2 is a crushed limestone working with four people on the federal register, filed to Russell County; the Coal Creek Prep Plant, under Ramaco Resources Land Holdings, carries fifteen and is filed to Tazewell County.

The stone operator here is the same company that runs the much larger Swords Creek Plant elsewhere in this county — 83 people against four. The record spells the name two different ways across the two rows, one of them with the letters of "Company" transposed, which is the ordinary noise of a hand-keyed register and worth noticing rather than tidying away.

Four people on one row and fifteen on the other is a small footprint for two working sites. The median Virginia row stating a headcount reports eleven, and 179 of the 349 rows state none at all.

The roads out

Sixteen restricted crossings, and seven of them belong to a county, which is rare here

Those two sites feed one of the more restricted networks in this state. Within ten miles the inventory records 124 structures; sixteen are coded posted for load and sixteen are rated below legal loads — the two fields agreeing exactly, at 12.9% of the circle.

Seven of those sixteen are county-maintained, and that is genuinely unusual. Virginia’s counties maintain only 243 of the state’s 14,143 structures, 1.7%, concentrated in six localities — and two of those six, Buchanan and Tazewell, adjoin here. So a restriction around this place is far more likely to be a county’s to lift than almost anywhere else in Virginia, where the answer comes from the state.

The raw minimum in the circle is 3.6 metric tonnes, well under the 11.0 an empty tandem weighs, so that crossing takes no lorry at all. The one that governs rates 12.7 tonnes, about 14.0 US tons, admitting roughly 1.7 tonnes of stone, and the nearest restriction of any kind sits 2.91 miles out.

Virginia paperwork

Three salvage tests in one chapter, and a rebuilt test that runs inside out

Beyond the roads, the title regime follows the truck rather than the route, and Virginia writes it unusually. Va. Code § 46.2-1600 sets three salvage thresholds where most states set one. A late model vehicle is salvage where estimated repair would exceed its actual cash value less its current salvage value. A recovered stolen vehicle acquired by an insurer is salvage above seventy-five per cent of actual cash value. A vehicle is nonrepairable above ninety per cent of its value before the damage.

Subtracting the salvage value makes the base smaller, so that first test is easier to trip rather than harder — the opposite of what comparing the bare percentages suggests. The rebuilt test then runs inside out: it measures the repair cost excluding damage to the engine, transmission or drive axle assembly, the exact inverse of Oklahoma, which counts only the suspension, motor, transmission, frame and structural components.

Late model is the current model year and the five preceding, or any vehicle whose value before the damage met the floor the section names, so an older truck outside that limb sits outside the salvage regime altogether. The repair figure also excludes towing, storage, a temporary replacement and diminished-value compensation — storage and diminished value being two items no other state on file names.

Weight is set at § 46.2-1122 and § 46.2-1127 — 20,000 lb on a single axle, 34,000 lb on a tandem and 80,000 lb gross — and the interstate limits are the same as the highway limits, so there is no inversion here to catch a driver out at the ramp.

What we buy here

The offer does not sort by truck type

Those rules apply to whatever you drive, and the offer does not sort by type either. Tandems and tri-axles off the stone and coal work that Russell County and Tazewell County run on, including whatever loads at the E. Dillon working or turns at the Coal Creek plant. Day cabs and road tractors on the long legs down out of the coalfield. Flatbeds, box trucks, straight trucks and rollbacks out of the trades, plus service bodies and the crew pickups that go with them.

Whatever you drive, the offer doesn’t change. We buy all of them.

Out here the distance is ours to solve. Buying it remotely and arranging the tow is often the straightest route and needs nobody to visit at all; we can equally come to you and drive it away or tow it, or you can bring it to us.

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 Raven

  • 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.
  • Who do I even ask about a posted bridge round here?More often than anywhere else in this state, a county. Seven of the sixteen restricted crossings within ten miles are county-maintained, and Virginia’s counties own only 1.7% of the state’s structures in six localities — two of which, Buchanan County and Tazewell County, meet near here. Everywhere else in Virginia the answer comes from the state.
  • Do you come out this far?We do, and often we do not need to. Buying it remotely and arranging the tow is a normal answer in this part of Russell County, so nothing waits on somebody making the drive. Distance has never stopped a sale.
  • How am I paid?Cash or electronic payment. That is the whole list.
  • What about the title?We need one unless the truck is old enough that it never had one. A lost title has a counter replacement; where none exists there is a bonded route.

Why people call

None of those questions is why the phone rings. Retiring. A medical that went the wrong way. A hauling contract that finished. A tandem standing through a Russell County winter with 12.9% of the crossings around it rated below legal loads, insurance going out on something that is not turning a wheel.

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. That’s what we’re here for.

Virginia title rules read from the Code of Virginia in August 2026 — verify with Virginia DMV before acting on them. Salvage, nonrepairable and rebuilt definitions at Va. Code § 46.2-1600; weight limits at § 46.2-1122 and § 46.2-1127. Bridge figures come from the FHWA National Bridge Inventory 2025 files and are read on item 70 rather than item 41, because the two agree on only 68% of this state’s posted structures. A commercial floor is a MINIMUM inside a ten-mile circle: at 64.1% of the nodes measured in this work a tighter crossing lies between ten miles and twenty, so read it as an upper bound. The two rows here are filed to different counties, Russell and Tazewell, and both are stated. The stone operator’s name is spelled two different ways across this work’s rows and neither spelling is corrected. The raw minimum operating rating in this circle, 3.6 tonnes, sits below the 11.0-tonne weight of an empty tandem and governs no commercial vehicle; the governing figure is the 12.7-tonne commercial floor and both are stated. Headcounts are as reported to the federal mine regulator; 179 of the 349 Virginia rows in this work state none. Whether Virginia has any seasonal or frost provision was not determined for this node’s research batch and none is stated here. Information, not legal advice.

Sell your truck in Raven

Raven, the E. Dillon working and the Coal Creek plant over the line, and a set of crossings a county can actually answer for. Buying it remotely and arranging the tow is often the straightest route up here.

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