We buy trucks in Green Bay

Two rail-yard rows are attached to this city and both run under Canadian National. North Green Bay Yard sits 2.08 miles from the middle of town and Norwood Yard 2.28 miles, both inside the place. What either handles could not be established from anything we read, so we are not going to characterise them.

A crushed-stone registration sits 2.46 miles out with 4 employees on the MSHA register. Within ten miles of it the Wisconsin bridge file records 369 structures — a dense network — with exactly 1 posted for load and exactly 1 coded below legal loads, which is three tenths of one per cent.

That single restricted structure is the one to read closely, because of how narrow the miss is. It is NBI record B05020800000000, carrying an interstate carriageway, state-maintained and 4.23 miles out. It is rated 35.9 metric tonnes. A legal 80,000 lb truck grosses 36.3.

So the crossing misses taking a full legal load by four hundred kilograms, and because it misses, it is published as a cap admitting about 24.9 tonnes of stone over the 11.0 tonne tare of an empty tandem dump rather than as no cap at all. That is the honest way to record it: a figure that is almost nothing in practice is still not nothing, and rounding it away would be asserting something the file does not say.

It is also only the second interstate anywhere in this measurement to set a commercial floor, and both are in this state. In eighty-seven batches before that, the structure binding a node was always a county road or a town road. The reason is the tier structure: Brown County posts none of the 77 bridges it maintains and its towns none of their 65, so the only restricted structure in either circle here belongs to the state.

Both of those readings sit under limits written trade by trade. Wis. Stat. § 348.15(3)(a) caps the gross weight imposed by any one wheel, or by the wheels supporting one end of an axle, at 11,000 lb, and subsection (3)(b) caps any one axle at 20,000 lb, or 23,000 lb for an implement of husbandry or an agricultural commercial motor vehicle. Two consecutive sets of tandem axles may impose 34,000 lb each where the first and last axles are 36 feet or more apart.

Then it names names. Subsection (3)(bg) allows a milk carrier 21,000 lb on a single axle and 37,000 lb on two axles eight feet or less apart; subsection (3)(br) allows forest products and scrap metal 21,500 lb on a single axle. Both are capped at 80,000 lb gross. Rock, sand, gravel and crushed stone are named nowhere, so this trade is the baseline against which two others are relieved.

Wis. Stat. § 348.15(3). Information, not legal advice.

None of that reaches 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.

One provision can move without anybody deciding to move it. Under Wis. Stat. § 342.065, where an insurance claim payment including any deductible exceeds 70 percent of a vehicle’s fair market value, the insurer must notify the department in writing within thirty days. The trigger is the payment rather than a repair estimate, so if a claim was paid on your truck at some point, the title is the thing to check before you sell rather than after.

Wis. Stat. § 342.065. 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 stone 2.46 miles out. Day cabs and road tractors off the Canadian National yards and the freight work around them. Flatbeds and box trucks out of the trades. Work trucks and pickups off crews. Whatever you drive, the offer does not change. We buy all of them.

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. In a city this size all of those are ordinary, and you are welcome to bring it to us instead if that is easier.

• 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?One structure inside ten miles is restricted at all, 4.23 miles out and rated 35.9 metric tonnes — four hundred kilograms short of taking a full legal load. An empty tow crosses it without thinking.
• Do you come out past the city?Yes, well past it and out across Brown County. Distance has never stopped a sale, and where it is far we buy remotely and arrange the tow instead.
• An insurer paid a claim on it years ago.Then check what the title says now, because the notification duty here runs off the payment rather than off a repair estimate. Send it over and we will read it with you.
• 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 road tractor parked on a lot in Brown County within sight of Norwood Yard 2.28 miles from the middle of town, 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.