We buy trucks in Pulaski

Two crushed-stone rows sit under this village. McKeefry & Sons, Inc. Pit 3 carries 3 employees on the MSHA register and a Portable Kleemann Crusher carries 2. The nearest place centroid is 3.30 miles from the coordinate, straight-line rather than a drive.

They are filed to different counties, and one of the two is filed to a county its own coordinate does not return: the row says Brown and the coordinate says Shawano. We are reporting that rather than picking a side, because the node list is read-only and a guess would be indistinguishable from a fact.

Whatever the county fields say, both rows bind on the same structure. It is NBI record P44009000000000, carrying Old Seymour Rd, town-maintained and rated 19.6 metric tonnes, at 9.54 and 9.57 miles from the two gates. Item 64 records the gross weight of the rating vehicle, so it admits about 8.6 tonnes of stone over the 11.0 tonne tare of an empty tandem dump.

Their circles are thin — 83 and 84 structures — and each contains exactly one structure coded below legal loads, which is that same bridge. So a disagreement about which county these operations are in makes no difference at all to the thing that actually constrains a loaded truck. The paperwork splits them and the road does not.

The tier holding it is the town, as usual here. Shawano County posts none of the 38 bridges it maintains while its towns post 6 of 54.

And the restriction most likely to matter on a road out of a pit gate leaves no trace in any of that. 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.

None of that reaches the paperwork on the truck, 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.

The salvage definition here is narrower than most people assume. Wis. Stat. § 340.01(55g) reaches a vehicle less than 7 years old damaged so that the estimated or actual cost of repairing it, whichever is greater, exceeds 70 percent of its fair market value, and it excludes a hail-damaged vehicle unless it is repaired with a replacement part. Most of what we buy is well past seven years old, and for those trucks the definition does not reach them at all, whatever a repair would have cost.

Wis. Stat. § 340.01(55g). 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 crushing work 3.30 miles out. Flatbeds off the trades and the farm work across Shawano 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.

This is a village with two small operations near it and no metro close, 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.
• Is there a bridge that will stop the tow?One, 9.54 miles out and rated 19.6 metric tonnes. It takes a truck part loaded rather than not at all, and an empty tow crosses it comfortably.
• Which county am I actually in?Honestly, the file disagrees with itself here — one row says Brown and its coordinate says Shawano. It makes no difference to what we pay attention to, which is the truck and the title.
• Will you come out this far?Often. But nobody has to. We buy remotely and arrange the tow, and it costs you nothing either way.
• 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 tandem dump standing beside a shed 3.30 miles from the middle of the village and 9.54 miles from the one crossing that binds it, insured every month and not turning a wheel since the last crushing 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.