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

One crushed-stone registration sits under this city, carrying 12 employees on the MSHA register and 3.31 miles from the centroid. Within 10 miles the National Bridge Inventory records 120 structures, and not one of them is coded posted for load or below legal loads.

That is a genuinely open circle rather than a gap in the data, and in this state the reason it is not automatic is the point. The towns here hold 234 of the 359 structures coded below legal loads statewide and post 6.8 per cent of what they maintain; counties hold 66 and post 3.1 per cent. A clean circle means the town tier around this pit has posted nothing, which is a decision somebody made rather than a fact about the rock.

Which is the caveat that goes with every empty circle in this state. Item 70 of the National Bridge Inventory records a structural rating of a bridge, and nothing else. It cannot record a class B designation, which takes every statutory weight limit to 60 per cent and belongs to the local authority rather than to any bridge inspector.

So 120 structures with nothing posted says a loaded truck out of this pit meets no weak crossing inside 10 miles of a coordinate 3.31 miles from town. It does not say the roads it uses carry full statutory weight. No statewide register of class B roads was found, and we are not going to assert how many there are.

That statutory weight is itself written trade by trade, and this trade is not one of the named ones. 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. 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, and lets two consecutive sets of tandem axles 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 the same for forest products and scrap metal, at 21,500 lb on a single axle. Both are capped at 80,000 lb gross.

Rock, sand, gravel and crushed stone appear nowhere in any of it. A pulpwood truck is allowed 21,500 lb on an axle in this state and a stone truck 20,000 — so this trade is the baseline the other two are relieved against.

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. 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 stone 3.31 miles out, and off the clear 10 miles of road around it. Day cabs and road tractors on the runs along the lake. Box trucks and straight trucks out of the distribution work. Flatbeds, 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.

• 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?Not one. There are 120 structures inside 10 miles of a pit 3.31 miles from town, and none is posted or coded below legal loads.
• My truck is fifteen years old and was in a wreck once.Then the salvage definition in this state never reached it, because that rule stops at seven years. What matters is what the title says today.
• 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 tandem dump standing on a yard 3.31 miles from the middle of town, inside the clear 10 miles, 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.