Boaz carriers: hay, feed and farm supplies
FMCSA’s carrier census shows 237 active carriers based in Boaz, and 59 of them list grain, feed and hay as cargo while another 59 list farm supplies. If your truck has spent its seasons on feed and hay runs around Marshall County, it is the kind of tractor or straight truck we buy from Boaz owners, and it can stay parked at the barn or shop where you keep it.
With 88 Boaz carriers listing it in the FMCSA census, general freight leads the cargo lines, and 51 list machinery and large objects. For a lowboy tractor or flatbed rig that moved equipment around the county, tell us the trailer type it pulled and send a photo of the plate and the VIN sticker on the door jamb.
Marshall County farms behind the Boaz hay and grain trucks
USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counted 1,324 farms in Marshall County, with cattle, soybeans and corn as the leading products. A grain truck or cattle hauler that only comes out at harvest or sale time often sits on a farm road between uses; give us directions to the field gate or equipment shed and we will plan the collection there.
For a farm-plated truck, find the Alabama title before you get in touch. If the title went missing years ago, Alabama’s state title agency is the office that issues a replacement, so start that request early and tell us it is under way.
Quarries west of Boaz and toward Gadsden
The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists C A Langford Co Inc, a crushed-stone quarry, 15.6 miles north-west of Boaz, with Guntersville Quarry at 17.8 miles in the same direction. Dump trucks and tri-axles that hauled aggregate from those pits can be collected at the quarry yard if that is where they are kept; just tell us who controls the gate so a pickup time can be set with them.
Further out, Guntersville Sand, an industrial-mineral mine 16.9 miles west, TREMENDOUS PIT, a dimension-stone quarry 18.4 miles south-west, and the COOSA PLANT sand and gravel operation 21.1 miles south-east all appear in Mine Safety and Health Administration records. If your truck carried a mine-site permit or decal at any of them, mention it, and keep any site inspection sheets together with the title.
Guntersville’s port and the Alabama City yard
The Bureau of Transportation Statistics places the Guntersville port 13.2 miles north-west of Boaz and the RJ Corman liquid bulk terminal 20.2 miles to the south-east. A tanker tractor or day cab that shuttled loads between those two points can be sold from wherever it is parked along that stretch; give us the lot address and a contact on site.
On the North American Rail Network kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, the ALABAMA CITY rail yard is 13.5 miles south-east of town. For a truck that worked transload or yard moves there, send photos of the cab, both sides, the tires and the fifth wheel, plus the current registration card.
Short runs, private fleets and the miles they log
Of the 237 Boaz carriers in FMCSA’s census, 182 operate only inside Alabama, 55 cross state lines, and 147 are private fleets hauling their own goods. A private-fleet truck that served a Boaz shop or plant is one we purchase on the same terms as a for-hire rig, so have the business name on the title match the person signing.
Driver figures in the FMCSA carrier census put 373 Boaz drivers within 100 miles of home and 241 beyond it, and the median truck among 47 reporting carriers logged 33,333 miles a year. Whether yours stayed close or ran regional, write the odometer reading down from the dash before you call, along with the engine make shown on the valve cover tag.
Sixteen-unit fleets, one-truck owners and the 2019 median
The three biggest Boaz fleets in the FMCSA census run 16, 15 and 15 power units, and the census logged 11 new Boaz carriers in 2025 after 7 in 2024. An owner-operator with one tractor and a small fleet selling several units are both welcome; for more than one truck, a simple list of VINs and unit numbers lets us set up each collection.
Across 90 trucks checked in FMCSA roadside inspection records between September 2024 and August 2026, the median model year was 2019 and about 44 percent were ten or more model years old. Whatever the model year of yours, include it with the VIN, and if service records sit in a binder in the cab, leave them there for the pickup.
Plant floors, loading docks and Boaz job sites
Manufacturing holds 452 of the 5,504 Boaz jobs in the Census Bureau’s 2023 LEHD job counts, alongside 259 in transportation and warehousing, 173 in wholesale trade and 100 in construction. Box trucks and day cabs that ran between those plants and loading docks can be sold straight from the employer’s lot if the owner gives us access.
Eighteen construction establishments operate in Boaz, by the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns. A dump truck, flatbed or service body truck that moved between job sites can be collected from the last site it worked, so tell us the street address and whether a loaded or unloaded trailer is still hitched.
The questions we get asked in Boaz
- The feed truck sits on our cattle farm a few miles out of Boaz, beside the hay barn. Can collection happen right there in Marshall County?Marshall County has 1,324 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, and we come to the farm where your truck sits, so send directions to the gate or shed.
- Our tri-axle stays parked at a Guntersville quarry yard between loads. Must we haul it into Boaz before the sale?Guntersville Quarry is 17.8 miles north-west of Boaz in Mine Safety and Health Administration records, and the truck can stay in its yard; tell us who opens the gate and we arrange the pickup with them.
- Somewhere along the way the Alabama title for our Boaz truck went missing; who in Alabama issues the replacement?Alabama’s state title agency issues replacement titles, so a Boaz owner starts the request there; once it is under way, tell us and we can plan the rest of the sale around it.