We buy trucks in Spokane Valley

Two operations are attached to Spokane Valley in the node list: a rail yard in an industrial park 3.26 miles from the centroid under BNSF Railway, and a liquid bulk terminal 2.87 miles out. An industrial-park yard and a rack are two different jobs — boxes and pallets on one side, tankers with certification histories on the other — on the same few miles of road.

But the count understates it, and the reason is on the neighbouring page rather than this one. Two further rail yards are filed under the city next door while both of their coordinates land inside this city. They are a co-located pair, misattached as a unit, each half naming one place and sitting in the other.

The two rows this place does own sit 0.58 miles apart, which is the tightest pairing of two different node types anywhere in this lane — a rack and a yard close enough to share a road.

So the working picture here is four yards and a terminal rather than one yard and a terminal, and only a page willing to read the filings against the coordinates would say so. What any of them handle could not be determined from any source read for the batch.

The rail-yard sidecars under docs/facts/node/ and the node list at docs/nodes/node-list.json. Distances are straight-line to the place centroid, not drives.

Whatever comes off those yards and that rack, the ceiling is a statute question and the statute gives no single figure.

Washington’s maximum gross is 105,500 lb. The statute bars more than 20,000 lb on any single axle, and lets two consecutive sets of tandem axles carry 34,000 lb each where the first and last axle sit 36 feet or more apart, with the groups in between governed by the bridge formula.

Then it opens up again. The department of transportation by rule for state highways, and a local authority for a road under its own jurisdiction, may extend that table to 115,000 lb. So the operative figure is an administrative rule or a local ordinance rather than anything printed in the code, and no page can honestly hand you one number. Whether the 105,500 survives on the interstate is not established by the files behind this page, and we are not going to guess at it.

Seasonal limits work the same way, and Washington writes down something most states leave implied. A local authority may restrict a road that rain, snow or thaw would seriously damage — and the ordinance is not effective unless and until the signs are up and being maintained. The sign is the rule. Which roads are posted in a given week is not in any file we hold.

RCW 46.44.041 on axle loads and the extension to 115,000 lb, and RCW 46.44.080 on local seasonal restrictions. Information, not legal advice.

Past the load rules, the paperwork is that one sentence.

Everything after it is a fix rather than a category. A lost title has a counter replacement; where none exists there is a bonded route. Neither of those stops a sale.

One Washington duty has a clock on it where most states’ have none, and it is the one to know about if a truck has been written off. Where a vehicle is destroyed or declared a total loss, the owner — or the insurer, once it has settled — has fifteen days to report it to the department and surrender the title. The statute names the fifteen days itself, which is unusual.

RCW 46.12.600. Information, not legal advice.

None of that narrows what we will look at. Day cabs and road tractors, tankers and bulk rigs, dump trucks and aggregate haulers, flatbeds, rollbacks, service bodies, box trucks and straight trucks, and the work trucks and pickups that go with a crew.

Box trucks and straight trucks are not a Spokane County thing in particular — they are everywhere. They are on the list because we buy them here too.

Whatever you drive, the offer doesn’t change. We buy all of them. The industrial-park yard 3.26 miles out, the terminal 2.87 miles the other way, and the two yards filed next door are where most of them turn up.

• 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 out 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; where none exists there’s a bonded route. If it was ever declared a total loss, the fifteen-day reporting duty is the department’s, not a bar on selling it.
• It is a tanker. Is the trailer part of the deal?Tell us the specification and the last test date and we’ll take it from there. On a liquid bulk unit the certification history matters as much as the driveline does.
• Do you come out to Spokane County?Yes, all of it and the towns around it — the industrial-park yard 3.26 miles out included, and the two yards the record files under the city next door. 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.

Those questions come up because the reasons for selling are mostly personal. Retiring. A medical that went the wrong way. A lane that dried up. A truck parked behind a shop since somebody stopped driving it, costing insurance every month it does not turn a wheel.

Around Spokane County it is the same trucks for the same reasons, whether they worked the terminal 2.87 miles out or the yards the record cannot decide which city to file under.

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.