Five quarry gates west and south of Gallant
West of Gallant the Mine Safety and Health Administration records three operations in a row: Tremendous Pit, a dimension-stone quarry 10.7 miles out, the Gargus Borrow Pit sand and gravel operation at 12.2 miles, and the Brooksville Quarry, crushed stone, at 13.1 miles. A tri-axle or dump truck that hauls out of any of those gates is often parked at the pit through the week rather than at the owner’s house; tell us which gate it sits behind and who can open it, and we collect it there.
To the south-west, 10.5 miles from Gallant, the same Mine Safety and Health Administration register lists the Ashville Rock Quarry, a crushed-stone quarry, and 12.5 miles due south it lists the Ashville Quarry at Hwy 26 and Hwy 33 as an industrial-mineral mine. Stone and mineral loads out of those two sites move on dump bodies, end dumps and flatbeds, and every one of those is a truck we purchase from its owner.
Before you call about a quarry truck, pull together the title, the current registration and photos of the cab, the bed, the tires and the VIN plate. Scale tickets or site inspection sheets from the quarry are useful alongside them: they tell us where the truck has worked without a long description.
Alabama City yard and the RJ Corman terminal to the east
Day cabs that shuttle between that yard and the shippers around it are trucks we buy; a note of which yard the tractor served, with the VIN and the odometer reading, is what we ask for first.
Further east again, 16.9 miles from Gallant, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics lists RJ Corman as a liquid bulk terminal. Tractors that pull tank trailers from a terminal like that can be sold from the terminal lot or from your yard at home; give us the address, the gate hours and the name of whoever can let us in, and keep any tank inspection records with the title.
Cement to the south
National Cement, eighteen miles down the road
The National Cement Company plant, 18.3 miles south of Gallant, appears on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s register as a cement plant. Pneumatic bulk tractors and flatbed rigs that move cement and bagged product out of a plant like that belong to the kinds of truck we purchase, whether you own one or run a handful.
A truck that spends its weeks south of town does not have to be driven back to Gallant for the sale. Tell us where it is parked, send photos of the cab, the blower or the deck, and have the registration and title ready for the day we come to collect it.
Sixteen carriers, thirteen of them on Alabama roads only
FMCSA’s carrier census counts 16 active carriers based in Gallant: 2 hold interstate authority, 13 stay within Alabama, and 12 of the 16 are private fleets hauling their own goods rather than freight for hire. A private-fleet truck sold by the business that ran it needs the same two documents as any other, the title and the registration, plus whoever signs for the company.
No carrier based in Gallant runs more than three power units on FMCSA’s carrier census: the three at the top of the list run three, two and one power units with three, one and two drivers. A fleet that size sells one truck at a time, and the owner can tell us the truck’s history directly.
Of the drivers those carriers report to FMCSA’s carrier census, 24 work within a hundred miles of base and 8 go beyond it. One new carrier registered from Gallant in each of 2024 and 2025, on the same FMCSA census.
Logs, poles, beams and lumber lead the cargo list for Gallant’s carriers on FMCSA’s carrier census, with 11 of the 16 carrying them; 9 carry machinery and large objects, 8 carry farm supplies and 8 carry grain, feed and hay. Those cargoes put log trucks with self-loaders, lowboys, flatbeds and grain hoppers on the roads around town, and each of those is a truck we buy.
Gallant’s farm trade reaches across Etowah County, where USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 725 farms with cattle, corn and cotton as the main products. A farm truck that hauls hay, feed or a stock trailer for part of the year is still a commercial truck to us; registration in the farm’s name rather than yours is fine, as long as the title comes with it.
For a log truck, photos of the loader, the bunks and the frame rails matter as much as the cab shot. Send them with the VIN and the odometer and the first call can be about the truck rather than about what it looks like.
Alabama titles come from the Alabama Department of Revenue, which works through County License Plate Issuing Officials; the office the Department of Revenue lists nearest Gallant is at 165 5th Ave., Ashville, 35953, 11.4 miles from town, and it is run by St. Clair County. If the title to your truck is missing, that is the counter to visit for a replacement before we come to collect.
Bring the registration and your ID to that office; once the replacement title is in hand, the sale goes ahead on the title, the registration and the photos like any other. Gallant itself lies in Etowah County; the Ashville office is simply the one the Alabama Department of Revenue lists closest to town.