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Brookwood · Tuscaloosa County · Alabama

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Brookwood sits among coal pits and stone quarries on the eastern side of Tuscaloosa County, where dump trucks, coal haulers and lowboys share the roads with freight tractors headed toward the Mercedes-Benz plant rail yard.

Selling a truck in Brookwood? Tell us about it and we'll take it from there.

Brookwood’s ring of coal mines and stone pits

The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists Eaton resources pit 1, a coal mine 3.9 miles south-east of town, and Kellerman, another coal mine 4.5 miles to the north-east. A haul truck or tractor that works either site may be parked at a pit gate or a yard nearby when you contact us; give us that location and we plan the collection around it.

Stone comes out of the same ground: TUSCALOOSA QUARRY/HOWTON PIT lies 4.1 miles north-east, and TUSCALOOSA QUARRY 7 miles south-east, both on Mine Safety and Health Administration listings. If your dump truck or end-dump tractor has hauled crushed stone from either one, send photos of the bed, the cab and the VIN plate so we know which configuration we are looking at.

Further out, a sand and gravel operation called TUSCALOOSA PLANT sits 15.1 miles south-west, also named by the Mine Safety and Health Administration. Trucks that split their work between these pits are welcome; tell us where the truck is usually parked.

Coke, freight, timber

Seventy-two carriers and the cargo they list

FMCSA’s carrier census counts 72 active carriers based in Brookwood, and 15 of them list coal and coke as cargo while 21 list general freight. Whichever load your truck pulled, have the registration and the title in hand before we arrive.

Thirteen local carriers register machinery and large objects, and nine register logs, poles, beams and lumber, again per the federal carrier census. Lowboy tractors and log trucks both fit what we buy; mention the trailer setup when you describe the unit.

Most operators here stay inside Alabama: the same FMCSA records show 60 intrastate carriers against 12 interstate ones, plus 16 private fleets. A private fleet selling one tractor or several follows the same steps as an owner-operator selling one.

Model years seen on Brookwood rigs at the scales

Brookwood’s 64 trucks stopped for roadside checks from October 2024 to August 2026 had a median model year of 2021 in FMCSA roadside inspection records, and roughly one in six of them (15.6 percent) dated back ten years or more. Either way, the steps are the same: the title, the VIN and a set of clear photos.

Among ten reporting carriers the median truck covers 29,772 miles a year, according to FMCSA’s carrier census, and the three biggest local operations run 51, 14 and 12 power units. A fleet manager clearing out several units at once can list them together in one request.

FMCSA’s carrier census shows drivers based here mostly stay close, with 141 working inside a 100-mile radius and 58 beyond it. Local trucks are usually reachable at a home yard, which keeps collection simple.

Plant yard, fuel rack

The Mercedes-Benz plant yard and the Tuscaloosa terminal

At 6.2 miles south-east of Brookwood, the North American Rail Network maps a rail yard at the MERCEDES-BENZ PLANT, and a second yard lies 14.1 miles west in Tuscaloosa. Day cabs that shuttle between plant docks and those yards are trucks we take; note which yard the tractor served.

The Energy Information Administration lists a petroleum product terminal at TUSCALOOSA, 8.4 miles west of town. If your tanker or fuel-hauling tractor loads there, have any terminal access records together with the registration when you reach out.

Assembly-line county

Plant jobs, building firms and soybean fields

Manufacturing accounts for 2,278 of the 2,952 jobs in the Brookwood area, or 77.2 percent, in the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts for 2023; mining, quarrying and oil and gas extraction add 267 more. Box trucks and tractors tied to plant supply work are part of what we collect.

County Business Patterns from the Census Bureau records 10 construction establishments locally, the kind of firms that keep dump trucks and flatbeds on hand. Around Brookwood, the wider county held 452 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, with soybeans, cattle and corn at the top; grain trucks and livestock haulers from those operations qualify too.

A Tuscaloosa suite for a lost Brookwood certificate

A Brookwood owner missing a certificate goes through the Alabama Department of Revenue, which works via County License Plate Issuing Officials. The Alabama Department of Revenue lists the Brookwood office as Tuscaloosa County, at 2501 7th St., Suite 100, Tuscaloosa, 35401, about 13.9 miles from town.

Start a duplicate there if the certificate has gone missing, and keep the receipt with your registration. Tell us at the outset that a replacement is under way, and we will line up the rest of the sale around it.

The questions we get asked in Brookwood

  • Will you collect a truck parked at a coal pit outside Brookwood?Eaton resources pit 1 and Kellerman, the two coal mines the Mine Safety and Health Administration lists within 4.5 miles of town, are the kind of sites we collect from. Send the gate location and any access instructions.
  • Which Tuscaloosa office reissues a Brookwood truck’s title?The Tuscaloosa County office at 2501 7th St., Suite 100, Tuscaloosa, 13.9 miles away, acts for the Alabama Department of Revenue as one of its County License Plate Issuing Officials.
  • Is a Brookwood lumber hauler or machinery lowboy something you collect?Nine Brookwood carriers list logs, poles, beams and lumber, and 13 list machinery and large objects on FMCSA’s carrier census, and both kinds of tractor are on our list.
  • Which papers should a Brookwood coal-hauler owner gather first?For a Brookwood truck, the title from the Alabama Department of Revenue, the current registration, the VIN and photos of the cab, frame and bed or fifth wheel cover what we ask for.

Sell your truck in Brookwood

Brookwood sits between the coal pits to its north-east and south-east, with the Mercedes-Benz plant rail yard to the south-east and Tuscaloosa to the west.