Waukesha County
Three quarries, and a county that posts nothing at all
Three crushed-stone registrations sit under this village: Sussex Quarry with 20 employees on the MSHA register, West Quarry with 17, and the Halquist Stone Company Ideal Quarry with 2. The nearest place centroid is 2.25 miles from the coordinate.
The road network around them is dense and almost entirely unrestricted. Within ten miles the Wisconsin file records 358 structures, 5 posted for load and 5 coded below legal loads — 1.4 per cent. Four of those five are state-maintained. Waukesha County posts none of the 66 bridges it maintains and its towns none of their 18, so the county and town tiers that hold most restrictions in this state hold none here.
Seven registrations, one interstate bridge
That leaves one structure doing all the work, and it is an unusual one. NBI record B67004800000000 carries an interstate carriageway, is state-maintained, is rated 31.0 metric tonnes and sits 8.10 miles from this gate. Seven registrations across this county now take their commercial floor from that single bridge, at distances from 6.72 to 8.26 miles.
In eighty-seven earlier batches the crossing that set a node’s floor was always a county road or a town road. This is the first time it has been an interstate, and it is one of only two anywhere in the measurement, both in this state. What 31.0 tonnes means in practice is generous: item 64 records the gross weight of the rating vehicle, so it admits about 20.0 tonnes of stone over the 11.0 tonne tare of an empty tandem dump — the ninth largest payload of the 1,018 nodes measured this way. These quarries meet no practical commercial cap inside ten miles.
One detail in that count should be stated rather than smoothed over. The single county-maintained restriction in the circle is not a county posting: it is coded below legal loads on item 70 without an item-41 posting. The two items do not have to agree — this state codes 468 posted and 359 below legal loads with 339 in both — and this is one of the twenty that is not in both.
And the limit a village road could carry is invisible to all of it
None of those figures can see the restriction that would bite hardest on a road out of a quarry gate. 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.
Which takes 11,000 lb on one wheel to 6,600, a 20,000 lb axle to 12,000 and a 34,000 lb tandem to 20,400. Item 70 rates a structure. A designation is a legal limit on the road itself, so a county that posts nothing tells you 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.
Wisconsin paperwork
We need a title — unless it never had one
That is the rule, and everything past 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.
What we buy here
None of that changes what we are interested in. Dump trucks and aggregate haulers off Sussex Quarry and West Quarry 2.25 miles out. Flatbeds off the cut and palletised stone. Road tractors and day cabs on the runs into Waukesha County and south. Work trucks and pickups off crews. Whatever you drive, the offer does not change. We buy all of them.
This is a village with working pits beside it, 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.
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 Sussex
- 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?No. The binding crossing here is 8.10 miles out and rated 31.0 metric tonnes, which carries a loaded truck comfortably, let alone an empty tow.
- It has hauled stone off these pits for years.Then it has done short loaded runs off West Quarry and its neighbours rather than highway miles, and the odometer understates it. Frames, brakes and suspensions carry that. It does not change whether we buy it.
- 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 tandem dump standing on a yard in Waukesha County 2.25 miles from the middle of the village, 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.
Wisconsin weight and title rules read from the Wisconsin Statutes in August 2026 — verify with the Wisconsin Department of Transportation before acting on them. Class B highways at Wis. Stat. § 348.16 with designation at § 349.15(2) and the underlying limits at § 348.15(3); title brands from the Wisconsin DMV. Node facts from MSHA’s Mine Data Retrieval System, the FHWA National Bridge Inventory 2025 delimited files (items 21, 41, 64 and 70) and the U.S. Census 2024 Gazetteer. Wisconsin has no state-rules file in this repository and none was written for this batch.