We buy trucks in Schofield

One rail-yard row is attached to this city, under Canadian National, 1.89 miles from the centroid and attached by nearest-centroid fallback. It is called Wausau Yard. Its coordinate lies inside Wausau, which is a different city and holds a page of its own.

This is the third row in this state filed to the wrong town, after Appleton Yard at Menasha and Butler Yard at Milwaukee, and it is the least ambiguous of the three. The name says Wausau. The coordinate says Wausau. And the node list already files a different row, Yard Lead Yard, under Wausau — so the correct place is not merely available, it is already in use for a neighbouring row.

That is three independent signals against one, and it is the clearest case this state produces — clearer than Appleton Yard at Menasha or Butler Yard at Milwaukee, and clearer because Yard Lead Yard is already filed at the right place. It is also the reason this page states it rather than quietly correcting it: the node list is read-only, and a page that silently moved the row would be making a change nobody could audit.

Nothing is lost by it for a reader. Both cities have a page and we buy trucks in both. What would be lost is accuracy, if this page claimed a yard 1.89 miles away was down the road. What moves through it could not be established from anything we read either, so we are not going to characterise that.

What is written down properly is the weight law, starting with the limit that shows up in no bridge file at all. 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, 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.

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 an ordinary thing to be selling, not something to explain 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. Day cabs and road tractors off the freight moving through, including whatever runs to Wausau Yard 1.89 miles away. Log trucks and timber rigs off the forest work. Flatbeds, dump trucks 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 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.
• Are you sure you mean this city and not the next one?Fair question, and the file is confused about it — the row here is called Wausau Yard and its coordinate is 1.89 miles away in Wausau. We buy in both, so it makes no difference to you, but we would rather say it than paper over it.
• It was branded once and rebuilt.Then it went through a certified state salvage title inspector and came out the other side, which is a normal thing here rather than a problem. Send us the title and we will tell you plainly what it changes.
• 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 somewhere between here and Wausau Yard 1.89 miles off, 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.