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

Two rows sit under this city and they could hardly be further apart in scale. Gerke Plant #1 is crushed stone with 1 employee on the MSHA register, 0.66 miles from the city centroid. HC Wyeville Mine is industrial sand with 30, under HC Wyeville Operating LLC.

The second one has a date on it that is easy to miss. It is the Hi-Crush Wyeville mine, and it opened in 2011 — six years before the same company opened Kermit, in Texas, in August 2017. The sand story is usually told from the Texas end, as though the Permian operations came first and the northern ones are the remnant. Here the order runs the other way round, and this is the origin end.

Whatever leaves either of them meets the same network. Within ten miles the Wisconsin bridge file records 161 structures, 3 posted for load and 2 coded below legal loads, both town-maintained. The nearest sits 2.19 miles out on NBI record P41017600000000, carrying Highland Ave, and it is rated 29.4 metric tonnes, about 32.4 US tons.

Item 64 records the gross weight of the rating vehicle, so that admits about 18.4 tonnes of stone over the 11.0 tonne tare of an empty tandem dump — a real load, not a token one. Read it in three bands: below 11.0 tonnes no commercial vehicle crosses at all, even empty; between 11.0 and 36.3 tonnes the crossing takes a truck part loaded; at or above 36.3 tonnes a legal load crosses whole.

And read the floor as an upper bound rather than a worst case. It is a minimum inside a ten-mile circle, and at 64.1 per cent of the nodes measured this way a tighter crossing lies somewhere between 10 miles and 20 miles out. A clean circle is not a clean route.

Both loads run under limits written trade by trade rather than road by road. 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.

One provision can move without anybody deciding to move it. Under Wis. Stat. § 342.065, where an insurance claim payment including any deductible exceeds 70 percent of a vehicle’s fair market value, the insurer must notify the department in writing within thirty days. The trigger is the payment rather than somebody’s repair estimate, and a purchaser of a salvage vehicle not already titled as one must apply promptly after delivery for a salvage certificate of title. So the paperwork can be ahead of the truck, which is the reason to check it before a sale rather than after.

Wis. Stat. § 342.065. 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 0.66 miles out. Tankers off the dried sand at the Wyeville Mine. Road tractors and day cabs on the runs along the corridor. 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?The nearest restricted crossing is 2.19 miles out and rated 29.4 metric tonnes, which carries a part load and takes an empty tow without trouble. Routing is our problem rather than yours.
• The tank hauled frac sand.Then say so. Northern White is prized for crush resistance, and the property that makes it good proppant is the property that wears equipment out. Abrasion history follows the commodity, not the odometer.
• An insurer paid a claim on it years ago.Then check what the title says now, because the notification duty here runs off the payment rather than off a repair estimate. Send it over and we will read it with you.
• 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 standing on a yard 0.66 miles from the middle of town with the Wyeville Mine up the road, insured every month and not turning a wheel since the last job.

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.