If your tractor pulled dry vans or flatbeds for one of those outfits, or for yourself, have the title and current registration in your name before you call us.
Machinery and large objects appear on 16 of those carrier registrations, and logs, poles, beams and lumber on 15, according to the same federal census. Lowboys, heavy-haul tractors and log trucks from around town are all trucks we collect; send photos of the deck, the bunks or the trailer along with the cab so we know the whole setup.
Per FMCSA’s registration census, 30 Fort Deposit carriers stay inside Alabama, 15 cross state lines, and 24 are private operations moving their own goods. A private-operation truck often sits at the owner’s yard or farm, so tell us where it is parked and whether a rollback can reach it.
A 2017 median on the Hayneville road
Whatever year your truck is, put that year and the VIN in your first message; the rest of our questions follow from those two lines.
Of those 33 inspected trucks, 42 percent were ten or more model years old, by the same FMCSA inspection records. Older and newer units are equally welcome; keep any inspection reports or service records you have together in the cab so they leave with the truck.
The biggest fleets based in town run six power units each, per FMCSA’s census, with a five-truck operation behind them. An owner with two or three units to sell can list them together, and we will plan one trip to collect them.
Cattle, corn and soybeans around town
Lowndes County counted 421 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, with cattle, corn and soybeans at the top of its list. Grain trucks, livestock haulers and the tractors that move farm supplies around Fort Deposit are trucks we buy; nine local carriers list farm supplies as cargo in FMCSA’s census.
Trucks off Lowndes County farms frequently carry farm tags or wait in a shed from one harvest to the next. Before you reach out, check that the name on the title matches yours and find the registration, even if it has lapsed, so the paperwork is ready when we arrive at the field or shed.
Pits and pipelines
Sandy Ridge Mill up to the Montgomery terminal
Nine and a fifth miles north-east of Fort Deposit, the Mine Safety and Health Administration lists Sandy Ridge Mill, an industrial-mineral operation. Dump trucks and tractors that have run aggregate or minerals out of that site can be picked up from a yard in town or from the mine road; just give us the address.
Two sand and gravel operations, Landsdown at 23.9 miles and Meadows at 24.1 miles, sit north of town on Mine Safety and Health Administration listings. If your dump truck worked those pits, tell us the bed length and axle setup and send a photo of the hoist.
Toward Montgomery, the Energy Information Administration lists a petroleum product terminal 24.3 miles north-east. Tank trucks and fuel tractors that loaded there belong on our list too; mention the tank’s capacity and include its plate in your photos.
Plant work behind the box trucks
In 2023, the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts placed 1,265 jobs in Fort Deposit, and manufacturing held 245 of them, or 19.4 percent. Box trucks and straight trucks that ran parts or finished goods for local plants are the kind of units we collect from a shop lot or a driveway.
Three construction establishments operate here, County Business Patterns from the Census Bureau reports. Contractors retiring a dump truck, a flatbed or a service body truck can send us the VIN, the photos and the location of the jobsite or yard where it sits.
Alabama titles are handled by the Alabama Department of Revenue, and the Lowndes County office of its County License Plate Issuing Officials sits at 1 Washington St., Hayneville, 36040, about 13.8 miles from Fort Deposit. That is the counter to visit if your title is lost or still shows a lienholder.
Bring your ID, the VIN and any lien release to the Hayneville office, and ask the Alabama Department of Revenue’s staff there about a replacement title. Once the new title is in hand, send us a photo of the front so we can match the name and VIN to your truck.
The questions we get asked in Fort Deposit
- Will you pick up a log truck from a site outside Fort Deposit?Fifteen Fort Deposit carriers haul logs, poles, beams or lumber according to FMCSA’s carrier census, and we collect those trucks wherever they are parked, whether in town or at a woods landing; send the address and a photo of the access.
- I run four trucks out of Fort Deposit; can they go together?Fort Deposit’s biggest fleets run five or six power units each in FMCSA’s census, and a small operator selling several units can list them all in one request so we collect them on a single visit.