Mineral pits below La Fayette
Shady Grove Quarry, an industrial-mineral mine on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s register, lies about 15.7 miles south-east of La Fayette. A dump truck or a tri-axle that hauls from a pit like that can stay where it is parked between loads; give us the yard address and a name to call at the gate and we will arrange collection there.
Notasulga Quarry, a crushed-stone operation that the Mine Safety and Health Administration places 23.8 miles to the south-west, is the other quarry on that side of the county. If your truck has hauled stone from either site, send photos of the bed, the frame and the tires with the cab, plus the VIN, so the first conversation is about your truck.
Crushed stone and gravel up the road
Wadley Crushed Stone is listed by the Mine Safety and Health Administration 19.7 miles north-west of La Fayette, and Long Pit, a sand and gravel operation, sits 23.4 miles out in that same direction. Owners who run aggregate between those pits and job sites can tell us which one the truck works from, and we can plan the pickup around the yard rather than ask you to move it.
Before you contact us about a gravel or stone hauler from up that way, have the title in hand, the current registration and any service records you kept. A clear photo of the odometer and the data plate on the door jamb answers most of our early questions in one message.
Opelika propane
The Opelika propane terminal
According to the Energy Information Administration, the Opelika Propane Terminal, a petroleum product terminal, is 22.4 miles south of La Fayette. Bobtails and propane delivery trucks that load there and run routes back into Chambers County are trucks we buy.
For a tank truck, keep any tank inspection certificates and site paperwork with the title; they show what the truck carried and where. If you do not have them, tell us what the truck hauled and which terminal it loaded at, and we will ask about the rest.
Dairy herds, beef cattle and horse barns
Across the county around La Fayette, USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 355 farms in Chambers County, with cattle, milk and equine listed as the leading products. Cattle haulers, milk tankers and trucks that pull horse trailers all fall within what we purchase from farm owners.
A farm truck often lives in a barn or at the edge of a pasture, so tell us the gate, the ground the truck sits on and whether a tow vehicle can reach it. Photos taken in daylight from all four sides, with the title and registration ready, are enough to start.
Builders and plant trucks in town
The Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts (LODES) record 974 jobs located in La Fayette in 2023, of which 87 were in construction, a share of 8.9 percent. Contractors with a flatbed, a dump truck or a service body sitting idle between jobs can sell it from the site where it is parked.
Manufacturing held 67 of those jobs, or 6.9 percent, by the same LODES figures from the Census Bureau. Box trucks and straight trucks that move goods for a plant or workshop in town qualify too; send us the VIN, photos and the name on the title.
Two Lafayette Street
A lost title is a short walk away
The Alabama Department of Revenue handles title applications in this state through its County License Plate Issuing Officials, and its office for Chambers County is at 2 Lafayette St., Lafayette, 36862, in La Fayette itself, 0 miles from the centre of town. If the title has gone missing, that is the office to ask about a replacement.
Bring the VIN, your registration and some identification when you go to the Chambers County office on Lafayette Street. Let us know that a replacement is under way when you contact us, and send the paperwork once the Alabama Department of Revenue issues it.
The questions we get asked in La Fayette
- Our tri-axle sits in a stone yard by Wadley. Should we haul it down to La Fayette first?Wadley Crushed Stone is 19.7 miles north-west of La Fayette on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list, and we collect from yards like that one. Name the stone yard and whoever holds the key to its entrance.
- Which Chambers County counter issues a duplicate title for a commercial truck?The Chambers County office of the Alabama Department of Revenue’s County License Plate Issuing Officials is at 2 Lafayette St., Lafayette, 36862, right in town. Ask there about a replacement title and tell us when you have applied.
- Will you take a cattle hauler or milk tanker off a Chambers County dairy or pasture?Cattle, milk and equine lead the 355 Chambers County farms counted in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, and the trucks that serve them are ones we purchase. Photograph the hauler where it sits on the farm and include the VIN.