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

The node attached to this place is Fort McCoy, and its coordinate reverse-geocodes to Monroe County. It runs to 60,000 acres and it is a total training centre for reserve and active components: since 1984, more than 100,000 military personnel have passed through it each year.

That is a genuinely large operation to have next to a small place, and unlike most military rows in this lane it comes with a figure attached. Sixty thousand acres is roughly ninety-four square miles of ground with its own road network inside it.

Those 60,000 acres are the reason a crossing forty-odd miles from here carries a maintenance code nobody expects. A quarry registration filed under Plain, out in Sauk County, has its coordinate 52.9 miles away in Monroe County, and the structure that sets its commercial floor is a training and logging trail with maintenance code 74 — the Army — rated 21.7 metric tonnes — an Army road reaching out of a 60,000 acres training centre in Monroe County.

That is the only Army-maintained crossing to set a commercial floor anywhere in this measurement. It is a small thing and it is the kind of small thing that decides a route: a truck working the ground around here can meet a bridge maintained by neither the county, nor the town, nor the state, and there is no highway department to ring about it.

The weight law itself is written trade by trade, and one limb of it is far wider than any other. 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.

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. Flatbeds and dump trucks off the construction and forestry work around Fort McCoy and across Monroe County. Road tractors and day cabs on the runs out. Box trucks and straight trucks. Work trucks and pickups off crews. Whatever you drive, the offer does not change. We buy all of them.

This is a small place beside 60,000 acres of training ground and not much else, 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.

• 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?There is an Army-maintained crossing out this way rated 21.7 metric tonnes, which takes a truck part loaded. An empty tow is a non-event, and routing is our problem rather than yours.
• Will anyone come out to Monroe County?Often, yes. But nobody has to. We buy remotely and arrange the tow, which from beside 60,000 acres of training ground is frequently the quicker route.
• 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 flatbed standing on a yard in Monroe County within sight of the 60,000 acres, 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.