We buy trucks in Brownsville

Six quarry registrations are filed under this village. Five are crushed stone — Plant #6 with 4 employees, Plant #9 with 4, Plant #15 with 3, Plant #14 with 1, and the Halquist Stone Company quarry with 5 — and the sixth is Fond du Lac Stone, Inc., working dimension limestone with 34 employees under MSHA identifier 4700054.

Three of the crushed-stone rows are not three places. Plant #6, Plant #9 and Plant #15 share the coordinate 43.61639, -88.49500 exactly and all record this village, 0.12 miles from the centroid. They return one road figure between them, not three. The Halquist quarry sits 2.60 miles from the same village and returns its own. A registration count is a count of paperwork, and we are not going to turn it into a count of pits.

Those two circles come back almost empty. The shared coordinate returns 105 structures within ten miles with nothing posted for load and nothing coded below legal loads. The Halquist quarry returns 79 structures and the same nothing. That is an unusually open road picture for a working stone district.

The county tier explains part of it and complicates the rest. Dodge County posts 1 of the 69 bridges it maintains and its towns post 4 of 58 — five posted structures across a hundred and twenty-seven in the two local tiers — and not one of the five falls inside either circle. Push the radius out to a neighbouring node at Beaver Dam and 72 structures return exactly one restriction, town-maintained and rated 9.8 metric tonnes. That is below the weight of an empty tandem dump, so it does not cap a load at all: it excludes a commercial vehicle outright, and there is no payload figure to publish against it.

Both of those readings come with the same caveat, and it is a structural one. Item 70 of the national bridge file records a structural rating. It cannot record a class B designation, which under Wis. Stat. § 348.16 takes every statutory weight limit to 60 percent and which § 349.15(2) leaves to the county highway committee and to the local authorities for the roads they maintain.

Which is why the tier to watch in this state is the town rather than the county. Towns maintain 4,501 structures, 31.0 per cent of the total, and hold 234 of the 359 coded below legal loads — sixty-five per cent of every restriction in the state — while counties maintain 3,133 and hold 66. Statewide only 2.5 per cent of structures are coded below legal loads, and that is a weaker statement about a route here than the same figure would be in a state without the class B rule.

Wis. Stat. §§ 348.16 and 349.15(2); FHWA National Bridge Inventory 2025. Information, not legal advice.

The same authorities hold the seasonal power too. Wis. Stat. § 349.16(1) lets the officer in charge of town, city or village highway maintenance, the county highway commissioner or committee, or the department for state highways impose a special or seasonal weight limitation where a highway would likely be seriously damaged because of weakness of the roadbed, and § 349.16(2) requires signs giving reasonable notice.

Then § 349.16(3)(a) lets that authority exempt vehicles carrying commodities it specifies, or set different limits for them, where doing so is reasonable and necessary to promote the public health, safety and welfare. It names no commodity at all. So whether a spring posting lets a loaded stone truck through is decided town by town, and there is no statewide answer to give — only a note that the answer exists somewhere in a town’s own records.

Wis. Stat. §§ 349.16(1), (2) and (3)(a). Information, not legal advice.

None of that touches the paperwork, which is the short part. That is the rule, and everything after it is a fix rather than a category: a lost title has a counter replacement, and where none exists there is a bonded route. Neither one stops a sale.

If the truck carries a brand, this state treats it as a stage rather than a dead end — a salvage certificate, then rebuilt salvage once it passes inspection by a certified state salvage title inspector, with plates issued against it after that. Send us what you have and we will tell you plainly what it changes.

Wisconsin DMV, title brands. Information, not legal advice, and only as current as the day it was read.

None of that changes what we are interested in. Dump trucks and aggregate haulers off the crushed stone 0.12 miles out. Flatbeds off the cut and palletised stone from Fond du Lac Stone, Inc. Road tractors and day cabs on the runs out. Work trucks and pickups off crews. Whatever you drive, the offer does not change. We buy all of them.

This is a village of a few hundred with a pit effectively inside it, so the option to start from is the one that needs nobody to drive out: we buy it remotely and arrange the tow. We also come to you and drive it away, or come to you and tow it, and bringing it to us is an option if you are going that way anyway.

• 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 am I paid?Cash or electronic payment. That is the whole list.
• Is there a bridge that will stop the tow?Not inside 10 miles of the village — 105 structures and nothing posted, nothing below legal loads — and the same at the quarry 2.60 miles out. Further away it varies, and routing the tow is our problem rather than yours.
• It has hauled stone on town roads its whole life.Then it has worked to whatever those towns posted, and the towns here hold most of what gets posted in this state — though Dodge County itself posts only 1 of the 69 bridges it maintains. Frames, brakes and suspensions carry that. It does not change whether we buy it.
• Do I have to bring it to you?No. We come to you and drive it away, we come to you and tow it, or we buy it remotely and arrange the tow with nobody visiting at all.
• 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.

None of those is really the reason for the call. Retiring. A medical that went the wrong way. A contract that ended and never got replaced. A tri-axle standing on a yard in Dodge County 0.12 miles from the village centroid that has not moved since the last job, insured every month and 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 by the end of the week. That’s what we’re here for.