We buy trucks in Stevens Point

One rail-yard row is attached to this city. It runs under Canadian National and its coordinate lies 0.87 miles from the centroid, inside the place — unlike Wausau Yard up the line, which sits in one city and is filed under another. A fair number of rows in this file are attached to whichever town was nearest rather than to the one they sit in. This one is not.

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. It puts you in the right part of the city, not at the right gate.

That is the ordinary expectation and it is not the ordinary outcome. Three rows in this state are filed to a town their own coordinate contradicts: Appleton Yard sits in Appleton and is filed at Menasha, Wausau Yard sits in Wausau and is filed at Schofield, and Butler Yard sits in Wauwatosa and is filed at Milwaukee.

So a row that lands inside the boundary it is filed under is doing something a fair number of its neighbours do not, and it is the reason this page can say the yard is here rather than near here. It still says nothing about what the yard handles.

What is written down properly is the calendar, and it changes three times a year under programmes that get described as though they were one. A frozen road declaration is normally in force from the middle of December to late February or early March, and it raises what may be carried. The Class II programme runs from about the first of March to roughly the middle of May. Posted roads is a third programme under a different guideline, covering roads that carry less than the legal limit either periodically through the year or only while the ground is thawing.

The middle one is the one people get wrong. Class II is not a reduction in legal axle or gross weight at all. Under maintenance manual guideline 37.10 the department may restrict the travel of vehicles running on overweight permits, because the subgrade is unstable while frost is leaving the ground. It caps what a single-trip movement may weigh over those roads, makes annual non-divisible permit holders avoid them, and suspends every divisible load permit type on all state highways for the duration of the thaw. A truck at ordinary legal weight is not touched by it. A truck on a permit is.

And the list is not fixed anywhere. District Chief System Operations Managers decide which sections qualify each year, and around the middle of December the bureau of highway operations asks for those lists, combines them and publishes a statewide list and map. Last year’s answer does not carry over.

WisDOT maintenance manual 37.10, with Wis. Stat. §§ 348.26(2) and 348.27(2) behind it. Information, not legal advice.

And one title rule matters more than any of the weight ones for a truck that has come in from out of state. 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 Canadian National yard 0.87 miles out. Log trucks and timber rigs off the forest work north 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.

• 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. Send us the title before anything else.
• Do you come out past the city?Yes, well past it — out beyond the Canadian National yard 0.87 miles from the middle of town, up the line past Wausau Yard 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.

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 Canadian National yard 0.87 miles from the middle of town, 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.