Laramie County
Two yards, two railroads, and an airbase four miles out
The rail here is two yards under two different carriers, about 1.2 and 2.7 miles west of the middle of town, with the regional airport about 2.9 miles north-west and the air force base about 4.6 miles north-west. A logistics hub yard sits about 6.8 miles south-west. A JTL Group sand pit is about 3.3 miles south-east with 9 people — the only aggregate operation inside fifteen miles.
Past that it opens out west. A Simon Contractors crusher is about 20 miles west with 7 people, a Lone Tree Creek quarry about 20.5 miles west with 8, and the Granite Canyon Quarry about 20 miles west with 42 — five times the other quarries out here. A county portable sits about 19 miles north-east with 3.
And the Colorado work starts sixteen miles south
Those western quarries are only half the working map. The other half is over a state line: two portable crushers near Nunn are about 16 miles south in Weld County, Colorado, with 10 and 3 people, two more about 21 miles south-east with 2 each, a mine about 29 miles south with 5, and a dimension-stone quarry and mill about 31 miles south-west in Larimer County with 25.
Further out again, the Fort Collins yard is about 39 miles south and the cement plant at Laramie about 43 miles west with 127 people — the largest employer anywhere in reach and most of an hour away. So a truck working out of here is crossing a state line on ordinary days and doing forty-mile legs on the rest of them.
Wyoming weight law
The state road carries 37,000 lb more than the interstate
Those legs meet one of the widest gaps between a state network and its interstate that we hold anywhere. Under W.S. § 31-18-802(a)(v)(G) a vehicle on the interstate or national defense highways is held to the maximum weight allowed under federal law and to Table I — 80,000 lb. Under (a)(v)(H) and (vi), on primary and secondary highways, Table I or Table II applies at the discretion of the operator, and no federal-maximum clause appears at all. Table I tops out at 117,000 lb.
That is a 37,000 lb difference, and it is statutory rather than a permit. Get on the interstate is the wrong instinct for a heavy load here by a very wide margin, and a truck bought for the state network was bought for a job the interstate cannot legally give it.
W.S. § 31-18-802(a)(v)(G) and (H), (vi). Information, not legal advice, and only as current as the date the rule file was last verified.
Wyoming paperwork
Take the title to a notary, and check the date
Selling one of those trucks has a step here that private sellers hit without warning. The assignment of title must be executed before a notary: the owner endorses an assignment and warranty of title on the certificate, and that assignment must be signed and dated before a notarial officer and acknowledged, then dated and delivered to the transferee when the vehicle is delivered.
And the statute carries its own forward-dated replacement. From 1 July 2027 the assignment may instead be signed electronically under W.S. §§ 40-21-101 to 40-21-119. Until that date this is a paper state and a notary is part of the job, so build it into the day rather than discovering it at the counter.
The salvage side runs the other way from most states. Under W.S. § 31-2-107 the salvage title section does not apply to a power unit having three or more axles regardless of weight, or one used in combination where the combination exceeds 26,000 lb gross vehicle weight, or a vehicle with a registered gross vehicle weight exceeding 26,000 lb. A tandem-axle class-eight tractor is caught by the axle limb regardless of weight, so for essentially every commercial truck that section is not the mechanism at all.
Two limits on that, and they matter. It is a statement about that one section, not about every brand: an out-of-state salvage or rebuilt brand arriving on a title, an insurer’s own total-loss handling and the federal vehicle-title information record are separate mechanisms and were not run down in our research. Tell us what your title actually says.
W.S. § 31-2-107; notarised assignment provision with its 1 July 2027 replacement text; W.S. §§ 40-21-101 to 40-21-119. Information, not legal advice.
What we buy here
The quarries and the base run different iron, and whatever you drive, the offer doesn’t change — we buy all of them. Dump trucks and aggregate haulers off the Granite Canyon Quarry and the Lone Tree Creek operation. Day cabs and road tractors on the yard and logistics hub work. Box trucks, straight trucks and service bodies off the base runs, flatbeds, tankers and the pickups that follow the rest of it around.
Most of it works either inside about 7 miles or out at 16 to 21 — the western quarries one way, Weld County the other.
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 Cheyenne
- Does it have to run?No. It does have to be complete, though — if the engine, transmission, doors, rear ends, drive shafts, wheels or anything under the hood have been removed, we can’t buy it. A missing bumper is fine. A missing driveline is not.
- Does my truck need a notary to sell?Under the current rule the title assignment is signed before a notarial officer and acknowledged, yes — and that changes on 1 July 2027, when an electronic signature becomes available. It is the step people forget, so plan for it rather than find out at the counter.
- What if I can’t find the title?We need a title — unless the truck is old enough that it never had one. If it’s lost, there’s a counter replacement. If there was never one to lose, there’s a bonded route. Neither stops a sale.
- There’s still money owed on it. Now what?That’s a payoff and a lien release, and it’s the slow part rather than the hard part. Tell us up front and we’ll work it into the paperwork.
- How do you pay?Cash or electronic payment, whichever you would rather have.
- The truck is down in Colorado. Still yours?Yes, and it is routine here — the Nunn crushers are about 16 miles south in Weld County and the Larimer County quarries about 31. Tell us where it actually stands and where the title was issued.
Why people call
Beyond the trucks themselves, the reasons repeat. A DOT physical didn’t go the way it used to. An aggregate contract that filled the season for nine years went to somebody else. The truck is just sitting beside a shed, and every month it sits is another month of insurance on something that isn’t turning a wheel.
The lots around the two yards west of town, and out toward the Granite Canyon Quarry 20 miles west, hold a fair number of trucks in exactly that position — and so do the yards down in Weld County.
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.