Aggregate and coal sites a short haul from Brookside
Adamsville, a crushed-stone quarry 4.9 miles west of Brookside, appears in the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s mine records, and Southern Red Rock, another crushed-stone operation, sits 6.8 miles to the north-west. If your dump truck or tri-axle hauls aggregate out of either pit, it may still be parked at the quarry yard when you call. Tell us which gate it sits behind and who can let a driver in.
Black Warrior Mine No 1, a coal mine listed by the Mine Safety and Health Administration, lies 7.6 miles north-east of town. A truck that has worked a mine site often carries its own site paperwork, such as the mine’s inspection sheets or service logs from the shop that kept it on the road there. Keep those with the title, and send photos of the bed, the frame and the cab along with them.
Between those three sites, a Brookside owner could have a truck sitting at a pit, at a mine yard or at home on a side street. Any of those is fine for collection; we come to the truck rather than asking you to move it.
Brookside’s south-east side: yards, tankers and fuel
New Boyles, a rail yard 7.4 miles east of Brookside, and East Thomas, 8.1 miles south-east, both appear on the North American Rail Network that the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics maintain. Day cabs that shuttle loads to and from those yards are part of what we purchase. Have the VIN and the registration handy when you reach out, since those two details answer most of our first questions.
South-east of town, at 8.2 miles, the Energy Information Administration lists a petroleum product terminal at Birmingham, and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics shows two liquid bulk terminals at 8.2 and 8.4 miles in the same direction. Tankers and the tractors that pull them come off that cluster. If yours did, tell us what product the tank carried and share any tank test or inspection paperwork you kept.
A tractor that ran between those terminals may now be parked on a lot near them rather than in Brookside. Give us the lot’s address and a name for whoever manages it, and the pickup is planned around their hours.
Open spans on the way out of Brookside
In the Federal Highway Administration’s National Bridge Inventory, the 8 bridges around Brookside carry no load posting, and none of them clears less than fourteen feet. For a loaded dump truck or a tall tractor, that means the roads out of town are open to the carrier that collects it.
Describe the spot the truck stands on, whether a steep lane, a gravel pad at a quarry or a soft field next to a house. Those are the details a driver needs, and a sentence from you saves a second trip.
Cattle and Christmas tree farms around town
Around Brookside and across Jefferson County, USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture records 398 farms, with cattle at the top of the list followed by cut Christmas trees and short-term woody crops. Stake-bed trucks, livestock haulers and the flatbeds that move trees in season all come out of farm work like that.
Farm trucks are often titled in a family member’s name or kept on a farm registration. Before you contact us, check whose name is on the title, and if it is a relative’s, have them ready to sign. Photos taken where the truck is parked, in daylight, are all we need to start.
The Jefferson County courthouse office in Birmingham
Brookside titles run through the Alabama Department of Revenue, which works with County License Plate Issuing Officials in each county. For Brookside that is the Jefferson County office in the County Courthouse, Suite A-100, at 716 Richard Arrington Jr Boulevard North in Birmingham 35203, which the Alabama Department of Revenue lists 9.7 miles from town.
If the title is missing, that courthouse suite is where a Brookside owner applies for a replacement. Bring your identification and the truck’s VIN, and if a lender once held the title, bring the lien release. Tell us early that a replacement is on the way, and we can keep everything else moving while it arrives.
The questions we get asked in Brookside
- The dump truck is still in the yard at the Adamsville quarry west of Brookside; does it need moving home before pickup?Adamsville’s crushed-stone quarry is 4.9 miles west of Brookside on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list, and we collect from the quarry yard itself. Tell us who can open the gate for the driver.
- A Brookside owner has lost the truck’s title, so which Jefferson County desk handles a replacement?Brookside owners go to the Jefferson County office of the Alabama Department of Revenue, in Suite A-100 of the County Courthouse on Richard Arrington Jr Boulevard North in Birmingham, which the department lists 9.7 miles from town.
- Will a carrier have trouble with the bridges near town?Brookside’s 8 bridges in the National Bridge Inventory show no load posting and none below fourteen feet, so let us know only about the driveway or yard where the truck sits.
- My tractor pulled tank trailers out of the Birmingham fuel terminals. Is a tanker something you’ll take?Brookside is 8.2 miles from the Birmingham petroleum product terminal listed by the Energy Information Administration, and tankers and the tractors that pulled them are both trucks we purchase. Send photos and any tank inspection papers you kept.