| happens to your old truck – your treasured | | | | and transmission of the truck vehicle unit will be cut out |
| vehicle when it dies and hits the pavement? Or better | | | | and sold for the steel scrap metal value itself. |
| put when it leaves the road? You may well have seen | | | | Next in line wheels themselves will be unbolted, |
| crushed cars and vehicles – actually many all in | | | | removed, cleaned, repainted and ultimately sold to roll |
| little cubes carefully stacked, piled and tied down on a | | | | down the highways one day yet again on other similar |
| flatbed trailer being towed down the highway. Is this | | | | truck model tractor trailers. Along with that rubber tires |
| what happens to my treasured vehicle after many | | | | can be sold yet again if it highway safe condition, if not |
| years of relatively trouble free service you may well | | | | then retreaded. Generally tires can be safely |
| of wondered? Or will my treasured friend simply end | | | | retreaded according to highway traffic safety rules |
| up in a landfill or worse rusting away to no avail or | | | | and procedures 3 times overall. If the tires have had |
| benefit to anyone or any future motorist. | | | | too many miles on the road and are beyond safely |
| It is interesting to note that as you stare at those single | | | | retreading then they can be shred into “tire |
| compact bales of steel on that flatbed truck trailer that | | | | mulch” and utilized for a myriad of uses including |
| each and every one of those metal bundles started | | | | for recycled tire mulch for kids playgrounds and |
| off one day as the proud possession of a new | | | | highway construction use for roadway reinforcements. |
| automobile owner who after haggling and dealing with | | | | Lastly a truck headed for salvage is handled in a |
| a new car or truck dealer proudly took possession of | | | | fashion similar to an old car. It goes through a shredder, |
| their brand new vehicle at one point and would been all | | | | which separates steel from aluminum and non-metallic |
| very proud of the newly factory built and dealer | | | | material and materials. Steel aluminum and ferrous as |
| delivered unit. | | | | well as non-ferrous items are separated and recycled. |
| Once your vehicle has reached the point of either | | | | Plastics – which make up a greater and greater |
| being too old or too expensive to repair or even | | | | percentage of most vehicles volume, are also |
| wrecked by collision your vehicle still has intrinsic value. | | | | separated and more and more are being recycled, |
| In the case of trucks especially even if the vehicle is | | | | even if only as base plastic materials? Vehicle |
| not tradable or has little value to a dealership most of | | | | recycling experts note that overall there is not a lot of |
| a typical heavy duty truck can be ultimately recycled, | | | | residual non-metallic materials lastly left – other |
| salvaged or even refurbished. | | | | than the rubber around door frames, plastic in the |
| An average tractor trailer , which will weigh in total at a | | | | tractor trailer cabs itself and some fiberglass materials |
| accurate truck weigh scale in the range of five to five | | | | left over. Fiberglass from the tractor trailer cabs at this |
| and a half tons it can be said that 85 to 90 % of all the | | | | point in time has little value and merit and is ultimately |
| weight components are essentially solid basic steel | | | | destroyed by shredding being left for the landfill itself. |
| metal in essence all in all. | | | | What a shame. All from those miles and miles of |
| Good steel metal always has value in the scrap metal | | | | those truck tractor trailers on the road. Shredded |
| industry as scrap recycling industry steel metal. In the | | | | fiberglass for the landfill site. |
| scrap metal yard the rear end of the vehicle, motor | | | | |