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Dothan · Houston County · Alabama

Sell your semi truck for cash in Dothan the easy and convenient way

Dothan, the Houston County seat in the Wiregrass corner of Alabama, has rail yards on both sides of town, Army stagefields to the west and north, and sand plants a short haul west, and we buy the trucks that serve all of them.

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

Freight, lumber and lowboys out of Dothan

General freight is the cargo class on 303 of the 545 active Dothan motor carriers in FMCSA’s carrier census. If your tractor ran dry van or flatbed loads out of Dothan, have the title and current Alabama registration in your name before you call, and keep the VIN handy for the first conversation.

Machinery and large objects appear on 96 Dothan carrier registrations, logs, poles, beams and lumber on 82, and motor vehicles on 76, per that same FMCSA census. A lowboy tractor, a log truck or a car hauler from this town is one we will look at; send photos of the whole rig, including the trailer if it goes with the sale.

New authority keeps arriving in Dothan: FMCSA’s carrier census records 34 new carriers registered in 2024 and 45 in 2025. If you started up in one of those years and are now winding down, the truck can be sold with the paperwork you already hold; bring the title, the registration card and any lien release from your lender.

Owner-operators and big fleets side by side

Of Dothan’s carriers, 293 hold interstate authority and 251 run intrastate only, while 279 are private fleets hauling their own goods, according to FMCSA’s carrier census. A private-fleet truck that delivered for a Dothan business is sold by whoever holds the title, so have the company officer who can sign it lined up.

One carrier headquartered here lists 4,339 power units and 6,491 drivers in FMCSA’s census; two others list 302 and 129 power units. A fleet retiring several units at once can give us a list of VINs and the yard where they sit, and we arrange collection unit by unit.

The 143 Dothan carriers that reported mileage to FMCSA put the median at 15,000 miles a truck per year. Write the odometer reading down when you photograph the cab so it matches the title transfer.

Local runs and regional lanes

Dothan carriers register 5,582 drivers who work within 100 miles of home and 3,326 who go beyond it, by FMCSA’s count of driver operating radius. Whether your truck ran local or long, tell us the address where it is parked now and we collect it there.

Roadside inspection records from FMCSA cover 613 Dothan-based trucks checked between August 2024 and August 2026; their median model year is 2020, and 20 percent were ten or more model years old. Keep the most recent inspection report with the truck, since it confirms the VIN and unit details in one document.

The National Bridge Inventory counts 70 bridges in and around Dothan, with 2 carrying a posted load limit and none under 14 feet of clearance. Tell us which road the truck is parked on so the pickup route avoids the two posted spans.

Rail and the Army

Rail yards and stagefields near town

The North American Rail Network, kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, places the Dothan yard 0.8 miles north-east of the city centre and the Barrett yard 3.6 miles south-west. Trucks that drayed freight to and from those sidings can be collected right at the yard lot if the gate staff know we are coming.

Toth Stagefield sits 9 miles west of Dothan and Goldberg Stagefield 13 miles north, per the Bureau of Transportation Statistics’ military installation list. If your truck hauled to either site, it does not need to come off a contractor yard before the sale; give us the address and a name for site access.

Aggregate plants west of Dothan

The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists Core Aggregates 17.7 miles west of Dothan and the Bellwood Sand Plant 23.7 miles west. Dump trucks and tri-axles that haul from those pits are trucks we buy; photograph the bed, the hoist and the cab, and note whether the truck is parked at the plant or at home.

Around Dothan, 168 construction establishments appear in the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns, and 1,741 local construction jobs show in its 2023 LEHD job counts. A contractor selling a dump truck or a tractor and lowboy should have the title, registration and any equipment bill of sale together before we schedule the pickup.

Jobs, warehouses and Houston County farms

LEHD job counts from the Census Bureau show 46,809 jobs in Dothan in 2023, with 3,973 in manufacturing, 2,130 in wholesale trade and 1,694 in transportation and warehousing. A box truck or tractor that served a plant or distributor here is sold by the title holder, so confirm whose name is on it first.

USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 616 farms in Houston County, with cotton, cattle and corn at the top. Cattle haulers, grain trucks and module trucks often sit on the farm between seasons; we collect from the farm itself, so send a pin or field directions with your photos.

The questions we get asked in Dothan

  • Does a dump truck sitting at Core Aggregates or the Bellwood plant have to come into Dothan first?The dump truck can stay at the pit west of Dothan. The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists Core Aggregates 17.7 miles and the Bellwood Sand Plant 23.7 miles west of town, and we collect from the pit if the operator lets us through the gate.
  • Can I sell a truck that hauled to the Army stagefields?We buy those trucks. The Bureau of Transportation Statistics lists Toth Stagefield 9 miles west and Goldberg Stagefield 13 miles north of Dothan; tell us where the truck is parked and who can let us onto the lot.
  • I run a cotton or cattle operation in Houston County. Do you collect trucks from Wiregrass farm lots?Houston County farm lots are where we collect. USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 616 farms in the county, and we pick up trucks where they sit, so have the title signed over by whoever’s name is on it.

Sell your truck in Dothan

From the Dothan and Barrett rail yards to the stagefields and sand plants west of town, we buy trucks across Dothan and Houston County.