Fort Payne Quarry and the plateau haul
Fort Payne Quarry, a crushed-stone operation on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s register, lies 9.8 miles east of Fyffe. A dump truck or tractor that has spent its working life running aggregate down off the plateau toward Fort Payne is the kind of unit we collect from a yard or a farm lot here.
Heading the other way, Scottsboro Quarry shows up 15.9 miles north-west in the same MSHA listing, also crushed stone. If your truck splits its loads between Scottsboro and Fort Payne, it may be parked at either end on the day you call. Tell us which site it last worked from and whether someone there can let us onto the property.
Cut-stone pits toward the Cumberland
Two dimension-stone quarries appear in Mine Safety and Health Administration records north-west of town: Cumberland #1 at 20.4 miles and Aguilar Stone Mines at 21.1 miles. Flatbeds and heavy-haul rigs that carry cut slabs out of pits like those are welcome here, along with whatever trailer travels with them.
Cut stone rides on deck trailers, so if yours is coupled to a flatbed or lowboy, list the trailer’s VIN beside the tractor’s. A pair of photos showing the deck and the hitch lets us see both units before we schedule a visit out toward those two sites.
The Bureau of Transportation Statistics lists Guntersville as a port, 21.2 miles west of Fyffe on the Tennessee River. Grain trucks and hoppers from the plateau can end up parked near the river terminals there between hauls, and that is a fine place for us to meet the truck.
Give us the street address or the terminal name in Guntersville, plus a phone number for whoever holds the keys. Leave the truck parked by the river; our driver meets it at that spot.
Cattle, corn and soybean country
Around Fyffe, farm hauling is a large part of local freight: FMCSA’s carrier census shows 20 of the 64 active carriers here hauling grain, feed or hay, and 18 carrying farm supplies. A grain truck that sits in a barn between harvests counts just the same as one on the road every week.
DeKalb County counted 1,744 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, where cattle, corn and soybeans lead the list. If your truck is parked on a farm off a gravel lane, describe the turn-in and the gate in your message, and mention any low wire or soft ground near the barn.
Of the 64 carriers FMCSA’s carrier census lists around Fyffe, 49 stay intrastate and 15 cross state lines, while 36 are private fleets moving their own goods. The three biggest local operations run seven, six and six power units, so most sellers here are owner-operators or families with a handful of trucks.
Selling one unit out of a small fleet is simple: tell us which truck, and keep its registration with it. Machinery and large-object haulers number 16 in that same FMCSA record, and 23 carry general freight, so a heavy tractor and a box truck can both come from the same yard on a single visit.
New entries remain few, with FMCSA recording two carriers added in 2025 and none in 2024. If you are winding down an operation that has run here for years, the whole lineup can go in one conversation; list every VIN and where each one is parked.
Wholesale, plants and building sites
Wholesale trade accounts for 105 of the 478 jobs the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts placed in Fyffe in 2023, with manufacturing at 85 and construction at 53. Delivery straight trucks, plant shuttles and contractor dumps all come out of that mix, and any of them can be sold to us from the lot where it is kept.
A contractor’s truck often sits at a job site rather than at home, so tell us which site, and have the registration and any service records in the cab or ready to hand over.
Alabama titles are handled by the Alabama Department of Revenue through County License Plate Issuing Officials, and for Fyffe the DeKalb County office is at 206 Grand Ave. S.W., Fort Payne, 35967, about 10.3 miles from town on the Alabama Department of Revenue’s office list. If the title has gone missing, that office on Grand Avenue is where a replacement starts.
Bring the VIN, your identification and the registration when you go to Fort Payne. If a lender still holds a lien, have the release letter with you as well, and let us know where things stand so the title question is settled before pickup.
The questions we get asked in Fyffe
- I only haul hay and feed a few months a year. Do you take a seasonal truck?Twenty of the 64 Fyffe-area carriers in FMCSA’s census haul grain, feed or hay, and seasonal trucks like theirs are ones we take. Send photos and the VIN, and say which barn or field it is parked at.