We buy trucks in Oliver

One rail-yard row is attached to this village. It runs under Canadian National, its coordinate lies 1.69 miles from the centroid, and it is called Pokegama Yard — a name that is not this village’s. It is attached here by nearest-centroid fallback rather than by falling inside the place.

Both halves of that need stating. Nearest-centroid fallback means the coordinate did not land inside any mapped boundary, so it was filed to whichever place centroid was closest; this is the nearest village, not necessarily the yard’s own town. And identifying the place a row is named after is a gap this repository records as an open problem rather than something it can resolve, so nothing is claimed from the name either.

That leaves two measured facts and we are not going to stretch them. Canadian National operates it, and the coordinate sits 1.69 miles from the middle of this village. The commodities handled could not be determined from any source we read, so we are not going to characterise them.

The coordinate is also the mean of a track polyline’s vertices rather than a surveyed facility point, which is how every rail-yard row in that file is derived. It puts you in the right part of the map, not at the right gate. Everything else on this page is state rules, which are written down and apply the same to everybody.

Beginning with the limb of the weight law that is far wider than any of the rest. Wis. Stat. § 348.15 puts the maximum gross weight for an implement of husbandry or an agricultural commercial motor vehicle at 92,000 lb without a permit — 12,000 lb above what an ordinary truck may gross. And for an implement of husbandry travelling to or from a farm-related destination and operated on the highway for 0.5 miles or less, there is no weight limitation per wheel, per axle or per group of axles, and no gross weight limitation at all.

It is not a loophole anybody is exploiting. It is the statute, and it is drawn around the trade rather than around the road — which is why the vehicle ahead of you on a town road may be under no weight limit whatever while your own truck works to 20,000 lb an axle.

Wis. Stat. § 348.15. Information, not legal advice.

Up in this corner of the state trucks change hands across a state line constantly, which makes one title rule matter more than any of the weight ones. The framing first: we need a title, unless the truck is old enough that it never had one. A lost title has a counter replacement, and where none exists there is a bonded route. Neither one stops a sale.

The exception is specific and it is permanent. This state does not issue a title branded junk at all. 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 plates may be issued. But a vehicle previously titled in another jurisdiction as junked, or under a substantially similar term used there, may not be titled or registered in this state at all — repaired or not, inspected or not.

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. Day cabs and road tractors off the freight moving through, including whatever runs to Pokegama Yard 1.69 miles out. Log trucks and timber rigs off the forest work. Flatbeds and dump trucks out of the trades. Work trucks and pickups off crews. Whatever you drive, the offer does not change. We buy all of them.

This is a small village right up in the north-west corner of the state, so start from the option 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 heading 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.
• The truck was titled out of state.Then the brand history is the first thing to check, because a junk brand from another jurisdiction cannot be titled or registered here at all. Up here that comes up often, so send us the title before anything else.
• Will anyone drive out this far?Often, yes. But nobody has to. We buy remotely and arrange the tow, which from a village 1.69 miles off Pokegama Yard is frequently the quicker route.
• 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 day cab standing on a lot within sight of Pokegama Yard 1.69 miles from the middle of the village, insured every month and not turning a wheel since the work stopped.

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.