Trempealeau County
Where Ettrick sits
Ettrick is in Trempealeau County, and the census counts 601 people here, at 813 per square mile, with a median age of 41.1 years.
What we know about Ettrick is what the census records and what Wisconsin 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.
Wisconsin weight law
That road has a number on it
That route out is where the state stops being an abstraction. Wisconsin sets the ceiling before any local sign lowers it.
In Wisconsin the ordinary maximum gross weight limit is 80,000 lb.
Wisconsin paperwork
Then the paperwork has to match the truck
Those limits decide the route. The title decides whether there is a sale at all.
Wisconsin's salvage definition reaches only a vehicle less than 7 years old. Most of what we buy is a good deal older than that, and for those trucks that definition does not reach them at all, whatever the arithmetic on the repair would say.
In Wisconsin, a former salvage vehicle that passed a Wisconsin inspection by a certified salvage inspector.
In Wisconsin, substantially altered from manufacturer specifications; inspection before registration.
In Wisconsin, as listed on WisDOT's brands page.
So what leaves Ettrick
Those two rules meet 601 people in Ettrick, Trempealeau County, at a household median around $81,250 and a density of 813 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 Ettrick
Do you actually come to Trempealeau 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? 601 people at 813 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.