Sell your semi truck for cash in Janesville the easy and convenient way

Four rows sit under this city. Three are portable crushing registrations — two of them sharing a coordinate 1.44 miles from the middle of town, the third a little further out — carrying 3, 4 and 3 employees. The fourth is Janesville Yard, a Union Pacific rail yard 3.14 miles out and the only rail-yard row attached to this city. What moves through it could not be established from anything we read, so we are not going to characterise it.

The road picture around the crushing rows is close to empty and then is not. Within ten miles the Wisconsin file records 182 structures, none posted for load on item 41 and exactly one coded below legal loads on item 70, 7.18 miles out.

That single structure does more work than its number suggests. It is NBI record P53016200000000, carrying Lathers Rd, town-maintained and rated 21.2 metric tonnes, and it is the binding crossing for all three portable registrations here at 7.18, 7.18 and 7.61 miles from their gates. Item 64 records the gross weight of the rating vehicle, so it admits about 10.2 tonnes of stone over the 11.0 tonne tare of an empty tandem dump.

It is also the only posted town bridge in the county. Rock County posts none of the 29 bridges it maintains and its towns one of 89 — a county tier that posts nothing at all, and a town tier that posts a single structure, and that one structure is the cap for every one of these registrations. Illinois is fifteen miles south and no Illinois bridge file has been read for these circles, so the counts are a bound rather than an answer.

Those crossings sit under limits written trade by trade rather than road by road. 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 starts naming 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, and rock, sand, gravel and crushed stone are named nowhere in any of it. A pulpwood truck is allowed 21,500 lb on an axle here and a stone truck 20,000.

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.

Where a truck carries a brand, this state treats it as a stage rather than a dead end. A salvage vehicle takes a certificate saying so, and once it passes inspection by a certified state salvage title inspector the brand becomes rebuilt salvage and registration plates may be issued against it. A truck that has been through that is a normal thing to be selling here, not a problem to be explained away.

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 portable crushing work 1.44 miles out. Day cabs and road tractors off the Union Pacific yard and the runs south. 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. All of those are ordinary in a city this size, 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, 7.18 miles out and rated 21.2 metric tonnes, and it is the only posted town bridge in Rock County. It takes a truck part loaded rather than not at all, and routing round it is our problem rather than yours.
• Do you buy south of the line as well?Yes. Illinois is fifteen miles south and it does not change what we do — it changes which title rules apply, which is our job to work out.
• It ran portable crushing work for years.Then it has done short loaded moves on and off site rather than highway miles, and that wears differently. Tell us and we will factor it in rather than be surprised by it.
• 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 Rock County 1.44 miles from the middle of town that has not moved since the last crushing job finished, 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.