Check with your local "law enforcement professionals" as you do have a legal right to ownership of the truck after it's been abandoned for x amount of time. I know alot of guys that own repair shops and having vehicles abandoned with them due to the cost of needed repairs is a real common occurance. Given that and the fact that a title is needed to really do anything with the vehicles I know NC, and I assume other states, has a proceedure to get the title of the vehicle and take possession of it in order to dispose of it in the manner you see fit.
Even if no repair work was done and no therefore no money owed for a repair, you can still, by law, send the guy a bill for an amount of your choosing for daily storage on the truck simply because it has set in your way for all that time. I guess the time period required for payment may vary by state but in NC that bill alone gives you the right to the vehicle if not paid within a certain period of time. Personally I had a Ditch Witch that I was owed about $200 on and never got paid for even after numerous calls to the owner. I had torn it down and repairs were more than he wanted to spend so it was immobile and moving it around was a royal PITA. I eventually told him I was going to start charging storage for it being in my way but it didn't seem to matter. I eventually had someone see it and make me a cash offer on the machine so and after letting it set in my way for nearly two years I sold it for the price of the accumulated storage fees. That was a little more 'dicey' so far as the legalities since it had no title and therefore there was no real legal way to sell it without going to court and spending more than it was worth so that's why I waited that long but that was nearly 4 years ago when it was sold and that's the last I've heard.
All of that said I'm not going to flame you for letting the truck sit. Just remember though you do have certain rights to any property that was abandoned in your care.
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