River and port
A river port half a mile from downtown
The Bureau of Transportation Statistics lists a port at Guntersville, AL, about 0.6 miles west of the city centre. If your tractor or dump truck has been loading or unloading at the riverfront, it can stay parked near the water while you sell it. Send us the street address or the lot name and the name of whoever holds the gate key, and we plan the collection around that spot.
Trucks that shuttle between the river terminal and the plants in town tend to sit on a company lot between jobs rather than at a home driveway. Tell us whose ground the truck is on before we arrive, and photograph the cab, the frame rails and the tires on the lot as it stands today, so the pictures show where it actually waits.
Quarries north, west and south-west of town
Guntersville Quarry, a crushed-stone operation the Mine Safety and Health Administration lists about 5.2 miles north of town, and C A Langford Co Inc, another crushed-stone site roughly 7 miles west, put aggregate haulers on Marshall County roads. A dump truck or a tri-axle that has run loads out of either pit can be collected right at the quarry yard if the operator allows it; just ask them first and pass us a contact name.
Further out, MSHA records show Guntersville Sand, an industrial-mineral mine about 13 miles south-west, and TREMENDOUS PIT, a dimension-stone quarry some 24.6 miles south-west. If your truck is parked at one of those sites, give us the mine’s name and the directions a stranger would need from the nearest paved road, plus the gate hours at the pit.
The carriers registered in town and their cargo
FMCSA’s carrier census shows 142 active motor carriers based in Guntersville, and 53 of them list general freight, 39 machinery and large objects, 28 farm supplies and 28 grain, feed and hay. A lowboy tractor that moved equipment, a grain hauler or a box truck on local freight runs are all trucks we buy here; tell us which kind of cargo yours carried and the trailer it pulled.
Of those 142 carriers, 116 are registered with FMCSA as intrastate and 26 as interstate, and 86 operate as private fleets hauling their own goods. If your truck belonged to a business that moved its own product, have the company paperwork showing who holds the title, and have that title holder ready to sign the sale.
Per the same federal census, 262 drivers in Guntersville stay within 100 miles of base and 235 run beyond it. Among the 27 carriers reporting yearly mileage to FMCSA, the median comes to 20,000 miles a truck. Read the odometer and note it with the VIN before you call; those two figures answer most of our first questions.
Roadside checks and fleet sizes along the riverfront town
Across 144 trucks inspected between September 2024 and August 2026, FMCSA roadside inspection records put the median model year at 2022, with 14.6 percent of the trucks ten or more model years old. Whichever year yours is, bring the registration card and the inspection reports from the cab so the year on paper matches the VIN plate.
Guntersville’s top fleet registered with FMCSA lists 81 power units and 48 drivers, the next 52 and 52, and the third 30 and 30. If you are selling several units out of a fleet that size, list each one by VIN, unit number and location, and say whether they share a yard, so we can arrange the collections together.
Factory jobs and construction crews
Manufacturing accounts for 3,609 of the 9,434 jobs located in Guntersville in 2023, or 38.3 percent, according to the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts, against 329 in transportation and warehousing and 140 in wholesale trade. Straight trucks and tractors that served the plants often carry a company decal and a unit number; leave them on and photograph them alongside the VIN plate.
LEHD puts 189 jobs in construction, and County Business Patterns lists 44 construction establishments. A dump truck, flatbed or service body that worked on job sites may be parked at a contractor’s yard rather than in town. Send the yard’s address and any maintenance log kept in the contractor’s shop along with your photos.
Barns, hay fields and grain bins outside town
Cattle rank first on the 1,324 Marshall County farms tallied by USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, ahead of soybeans and then corn. Livestock haulers, grain trucks and farm tractors with hopper trailers are part of what we collect, and they are usually parked at the barn or the field edge, not on a street.
If the truck sits on farmland, mark the gate on a map pin, tell us whether the lane is passable after rain, and keep the title and the registration together in the house rather than in the cab.
The questions we get asked in Guntersville
- Can you pick up a dump truck sitting at Guntersville Quarry, or must I haul it into town first?Guntersville Quarry is about 5.2 miles north of town on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list, and we can collect the truck there. Get the quarry operator’s permission and give us a name to call on arrival.
- Will you take a cattle trailer rig or grain truck off a farm near Guntersville?Marshall County has 1,324 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, led by cattle, soybeans and corn, and the trucks that serve them are ones we buy. Send photos, the VIN and the farm’s location.
- My tractor ran out of the Guntersville riverfront terminal; which details help you first?The port the Bureau of Transportation Statistics lists at Guntersville is about 0.6 miles west of the city centre, so tell us which terminal or lot the truck is parked on, plus the VIN, the title holder’s name and photos of the cab and frame.