Dodge County
Thirteen people, and two restrictions that both belong to towns
One crushed-stone registration sits under this city, carrying 13 employees on the MSHA register and 2.40 miles from the centroid. Within ten miles the Wisconsin bridge file records 62 structures — a thin network — and 2 of them are coded below legal loads.
Both are town-maintained. Neither is the county’s, and that is the pattern rather than the exception here: across the four nodes measured together with this one, fifteen structures sit below legal loads and not one of them is county-maintained. Dodge County posts 1 of the 69 bridges it maintains and its towns 4 of 58.
Fifteen tonnes of stone, which is a working load
Those two set a floor that is unusually generous for this state. The binding crossing is NBI record P66005200000000, carrying West Bend Rd, 8.29 miles out and rated 26.1 metric tonnes — about 28.8 US tons.
Item 64 records the gross weight of the rating vehicle, so it admits about 15.1 tonnes of stone over the 11.0 tonne tare of an empty tandem dump. Put beside the other three nodes in that group, this is the comfortable end: one of them keeps about 7.0 tonnes, another about 2.1 — the tightest published floor anywhere in this state — and the fourth meets a crossing that takes a legal load whole. Four pits, four completely different answers, and none of them is predictable from the county.
Read the floor as an upper bound rather than a worst case. It is a minimum inside a ten-mile circle, and at 64.1 per cent of the nodes measured this way a tighter crossing lies somewhere between 10 miles and 20 miles out.
A class B road takes forty per cent off, and the town declares it
None of those ratings can record the restriction most likely to bite on the town roads that hold them. Wis. Stat. § 348.16 provides that on a class B highway no person may operate a vehicle imposing weight exceeding 60 percent of the weights authorised in s. 348.15 (3), and § 349.15(2) puts the designation with the county highway committee for the county trunk system and with the local authorities for the roads they maintain.
Run the arithmetic and it is not a small adjustment: 11,000 lb on one wheel becomes 6,600, a 20,000 lb axle becomes 12,000, and a 34,000 lb tandem becomes 20,400. Item 70 of the national bridge file records a structural rating of a bridge. A class B designation is a legal limit on the road itself, so the file cannot hold it, and a clean bridge count says less than it appears to. No statewide register of class B roads was found and we are not going to assert how many there are.
Wis. Stat. §§ 348.15(3), 348.16 and 349.15(2). Information, not legal advice.
Wisconsin paperwork
We need a title — unless it never had one
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. 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 somebody’s repair estimate, and a purchaser of a salvage vehicle not already titled as one must apply promptly after delivery for a salvage certificate of title. So the paperwork can be ahead of the truck, which is the reason to check it before a sale rather than after.
Wis. Stat. § 342.065. Information, not legal advice, and only as current as the day it was read.
What we buy here
None of that changes what we are interested in. Dump trucks and aggregate haulers off the limestone 2.40 miles out. Flatbeds off the trades and the farm work across Dodge County. 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.
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 place this size, and bringing it to us is an option too if that suits your week.
We buy complete trucks. If the engine, transmission, doors, rear ends, drive shafts, wheels or anything under the hood have been removed, we can’t buy it. Small things — a missing bumper — are fine.
Straight answers
The questions we get asked in Mayville
- 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?The binding crossing is 8.29 miles out and rated 26.1 metric tonnes, which carries a good part load and an empty tow without trouble.
- It has hauled stone on town roads its whole life.Then it has worked to whatever those towns posted, and in Dodge County the towns hold four of the five postings there are. Frames, brakes and suspensions carry that pattern.
- 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.
Why people call
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 tandem dump standing on a yard in Dodge County 2.40 miles from the middle of town, insured every month and not turning a wheel since the last job finished.
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.
Wisconsin weight and title rules read from the Wisconsin Statutes in August 2026 — verify with the Wisconsin Department of Transportation before acting on them. Class B highways at Wis. Stat. § 348.16 with designation at § 349.15(2) and insurer notification at § 342.065. Node facts from MSHA’s Mine Data Retrieval System, the FHWA National Bridge Inventory 2025 delimited files (items 21, 41, 64 and 70) and the U.S. Census 2024 Gazetteer. Wisconsin has no state-rules file in this repository and none was written for this batch.