Logs on half the town’s carriers
Of the 64 active carriers based in Double Springs, 32 list logs, poles, beams and lumber as cargo in FMCSA’s carrier census, with general freight on 21, machinery and large objects on 13 and farm supplies on 10. A log truck with a self-loader, a tractor with a pole trailer, or a flatbed that has carried sawn lumber out of Winston County is the kind of truck that comes up here. Tell us which of those it is when you first get in touch, along with the year and the engine, and the questions that follow will be about that truck.
Thirteen of those 64 carriers run interstate and 51 stay inside Alabama, and 32 of them are private fleets rather than for-hire, on the same FMCSA census. A truck that has only ever worked Alabama roads is as welcome as one that crosses the state line. Have the registration with the title, and if the truck belongs to a company fleet, bring the paperwork that shows who signs for it.
Rock
Four quarries east, south and west of town
The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists Pit #1, a dimension-stone quarry, 14.3 miles east of Double Springs, and GOB Farms, an industrial-mineral mine, 16.6 miles south. Dimension stone moves on flatbeds and lowboys rather than in a dump body, and a tractor that has pulled cut stone from that pit will usually have a flatbed or a step deck behind it. Photograph the deck, the fifth wheel and the tires as well as the cab.
Two crushed-stone quarries sit a little further out on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list: MARION COUNTY ROCK, 20.1 miles to the south-west, and South Russellville Quarry, 24.7 miles north-west. Tri-axle dumps, end dumps and belly dumps that have hauled aggregate from either one are trucks we purchase, and we collect them wherever they are parked, at the quarry or in a yard in town. If the truck has a scale ticket book or a set of haul records with it, keep them together with the title.
Dry vans and flatbeds
Half the town’s jobs are in manufacturing
Of the 1,687 people the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts place in work at Double Springs in 2023, 859 are in manufacturing, which is 50.9 percent of the town’s employment. Plants of that kind ship on dry vans and flatbeds and bring inbound material in on the same, and a day cab that has shuttled between a plant and its suppliers is a straightforward truck to describe: tell us what it carried and how far.
The Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns puts the number of construction establishments at Double Springs at three. A contractor’s dump truck, a lowboy that has moved an excavator, or a service truck with a crane body all count as commercial trucks to us. Send photos of the body as well as the cab, and list any attachments that stay with the truck.
Thirty-one, twenty-one, seven
Thirty-one trucks in the biggest local fleet
FMCSA’s carrier census puts the largest fleet based in Double Springs at 31 power units with 21 drivers, the next at 21 power units and 15 drivers, and the third at seven trucks and seven drivers. Fleets of that size turn over a truck or two at a time rather than all at once, and we buy one truck from a fleet as readily as the whole lot. A fleet manager selling a single unit should have its title, its registration and its most recent inspection report ready.
Across the 15 local carriers that report mileage to FMCSA’s carrier census, the median truck covers 45,650 miles a year, and the census counts 62 drivers working runs that stay inside a hundred miles of base against 97 on longer routes. Only one new carrier registered here in 2025 and one in 2024, on the same census. A truck that has run short local loops will have an odometer reading that reflects it; give us that reading with the VIN and the rest follows.
A 2018 median on the roadside record
Between September 2024 and August 2026, inspectors stopped 72 trucks tied to Double Springs, and the median model year across them is 2018 in FMCSA roadside inspection records. Just under 39 percent of those trucks were ten or more years old at inspection, on FMCSA’s roadside inspection records. Whatever the year of yours, state it plainly; the model year goes on the title and we check it against the VIN.
An inspection report from one of those roadside stops is a useful document to keep with the truck. It records the date, the location and what the inspector looked at, and it helps us match the truck in front of us to the truck you describe. If you have none, a photo of the door sticker and the odometer does the same job.
Cattle, corn and goats around town
Around Double Springs, USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 385 farms in Winston County, with cattle, corn and goats as the leading products. Cattle and goats move on stock trailers, and corn moves in hopper bottoms and grain bodies, so the farm trucks here are pickups pulling gooseneck stock trailers, single-axle grain trucks and the occasional tractor with a livestock trailer.
A farm truck is often titled in the name of the farm rather than the person selling it. Check whose name is on the title before you call, and if the truck has sat on a farm road at the back of the property, tell us whether a tow truck can reach it. We arrange collection to suit where the truck is.
Jasper
The Walker County office on the Jasper side
Alabama titles are issued by the Alabama Department of Revenue, and the office the Department lists nearest Double Springs is the Walker County License Plate Issuing Officials at 1900 3rd Ave., Jasper, 35502, which is 22.9 miles from town. A replacement for a lost title for a truck registered here is applied for through that office, and the application goes to the Department of Revenue for the new title.
Start the replacement before you contact us if the title is missing, and tell us when you did. A truck with a clean title in hand and a registration that matches it is the simplest sale; one with a replacement in progress is still a sale, and we plan the collection around the date the new title arrives.
The questions we get asked in Double Springs
- Can you collect a log truck from a landing out past the dimension-stone pit east of Double Springs, or does it have to come into town?Pit #1 is 14.3 miles east of Double Springs on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list, and we collect from a landing out that way as readily as from a lot in town. Give us directions to the landing and a contact who can meet the driver.
- Which office handles a replacement title for a truck registered at Double Springs?The Alabama Department of Revenue issues the title, and the office it lists for this area is the Walker County License Plate Issuing Officials at 1900 3rd Ave. in Jasper, 22.9 miles from Double Springs. Apply there, then tell us the date so we can time the collection.
- Do you buy a single truck that only ever works inside Alabama from a Double Springs address?Fifty-one of the 64 carriers at Double Springs addresses stay inside Alabama on FMCSA’s carrier census, and a single intrastate truck is exactly what most of them are. Send the VIN, the odometer reading and photos of the cab and the trailer side, and the questions that remain are ours to ask.
- Is a 2012 dump truck that hauled crushed stone around Double Springs too old for you?FMCSA roadside inspection records show about 39 percent of the 72 trucks inspected around Double Springs were ten or more years old, so a 2012 dump truck is in good company here. Tell us the year, the body type and which quarry it served.