Sheboygan
One yard, one carrier, correctly filed
One rail-yard row is attached to this city. It runs under Union Pacific and its coordinate lies 0.99 miles from the centroid, inside the place — the coordinate landed within the mapped boundary rather than being assigned to whichever town happened to be nearest.
What moves through it could not be established from anything we read, so we are not going to characterise it. The coordinate is 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. One row, one carrier, one distance, filed where it belongs.
And one exemption that is wider than any of them
What is written down properly is the weight law, and one limb of it is much wider than the rest — which matters on the farm ground behind this city. 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.
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.
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.
What we buy here
None of that changes what we are interested in. Day cabs and road tractors off the Union Pacific yard 0.99 miles out and the freight along the lake. Farm trucks and grain hauls off the ground west of here. Box trucks, straight trucks, 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.
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 Sheboygan
- 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.
- It is a farm truck rather than a commercial one.We still buy it. The weight rules treat an implement of husbandry very differently on the road — 92,000 lb without a permit — but that has nothing to do with whether we are interested.
- Do you come out past the city?Yes, well past it — out beyond the Union Pacific yard 0.99 miles from the middle of town and a long way further. Distance has never stopped a sale.
- 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 day cab standing on a lot within sight of the Union Pacific yard 0.99 miles from the middle of town, insured every month and not turning a wheel since the last run.
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. The agricultural limits at Wis. Stat. § 348.15 and the salvage definition at § 340.01(55g). Node facts from the city-pages node list. Wisconsin has no state-rules file in this repository and none was written for this batch.