Petroleum and liquid bulk terminals beside Chickasaw
The Energy Information Administration lists two petroleum product terminals carrying the Chickasaw name, 1.1 and 1.2 miles east of town. If your tractor has loaded at either rack, note that in your first message along with the VIN, so our questions start from the work it actually did.
Apex, a liquid bulk terminal 1.7 miles east, and Miller, another 2.7 miles south-east, both appear on the Bureau of Transportation Statistics port facility list. A truck parked at a terminal lot can stay there; give us the gate contact and the name on the title, and we arrange collection around the site’s own rules.
Ro/ro berths and the Mobile rail yards to the south-east
Per the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, the Port of Mobile’s AutoMobile Ro/Ro International Terminal lies 3.9 miles south-east and the Main Docks general cargo berths 5.1 miles out. Day cabs that shuttle between those berths and Chickasaw yards are trucks we buy, and a short photo set of the cab, frame, fifth wheel and tires tells us most of what we need.
Two rail yards, MOBILE (AGR) and INTERCHANGE YARD, sit about 4.1 miles south-east according to the North American Rail Network kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. If your truck has worked the ramps there, keep its registration and any service records together so they can be handed over at pickup.
Chickasaw’s carriers: log loads, machinery and dry freight
Of the 36 Chickasaw carriers active in FMCSA’s carrier census, 20 keep their loads inside Alabama, 16 cross state lines, and 13 are private fleets moving a company’s own goods. Tell us which of those describes your operation, since an intrastate truck and an interstate one carry different paperwork.
Twenty of those carriers list general freight in the same FMCSA census, eight list logs, poles, beams and lumber, eight list machinery and large objects, and five list grain, feed and hay. Log trucks, lowboys and dry vans all fit what we purchase; send the trailer details with the tractor if you are selling both.
Fleet sizes here run small: the biggest Chickasaw carrier in FMCSA’s registry shows 20 power units and 15 drivers, the next 8 units, then 4. An owner-operator with one truck sells to us the same way a fleet with twenty does, one VIN at a time.
What the inspection lane saw from Chickasaw
Roadside inspection records from FMCSA covered 115 trucks from Chickasaw carriers between September 2024 and August 2026, with a median model year of 2021 and 15.7 percent ten or more years old. Whatever the year on yours, have the title and current registration ready before you contact us.
Eleven local carriers reported mileage to FMCSA, and the median among them was 25,728 miles per truck in a year. Give us the odometer reading when you write; it goes on the bill of sale alongside the VIN.
No posted bridges between the yards and the highway
None of Chickasaw’s 10 bridges is load-posted or lower than 14 feet, per the National Bridge Inventory. A tow truck or lowboy sent for your tractor can reach most addresses here without a detour around a weight or height limit.
Even so, tell us whether the truck sits in a fenced yard, a terminal lot or a driveway, and whether a trailer is still coupled. That decides what equipment we send to collect it.
Wholesale, plant and cotton-field trucks
Of the 940 jobs located in Chickasaw in 2023, the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts put 116 in wholesale trade, 92 in manufacturing, 61 in transportation and warehousing, and 50 in construction. Box trucks and straight trucks from distributors and plants are welcome alongside tractors.
Nine construction firms and four warehouses operate around Chickasaw in the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns. A dump truck or flatbed from a contractor’s yard is collected from the yard itself; have the company officer who signs the title available.
Across Mobile County, USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 657 farms, led by cattle, cotton and potted flowering plants. Livestock haulers, cotton module trucks and nursery delivery trucks parked on farm ground are trucks we come out to collect.
The questions we get asked in Chickasaw
- My tractor is parked near the fuel terminals east of Chickasaw. Can you collect it beside the Chickasaw fuel racks?The two petroleum product terminals listed by the Energy Information Administration sit just over a mile east of town, and we collect from there. Send us the lot address and a contact who can open the gate.
- Will you take a log truck or lowboy from a Chickasaw carrier?Eight local carriers list logs and lumber and eight list machinery in FMCSA’s carrier census, and trucks from both lines are ones we buy. If the log trailer or lowboy deck goes with the tractor, photograph it as well.
- Is there anything about the roads that makes pickup harder here?Chickasaw’s 10 bridges in the National Bridge Inventory carry no load postings and none are under 14 feet, so equipment reaches most addresses directly. Just tell us whether the truck is in a yard or a driveway.