Pole rigs and lumber decks leaving Linden
Logs, poles, beams or lumber appear on the cargo list of 21 Linden haulers, nearly half the 44 active carriers FMCSA’s carrier census records in town. That makes a Linden seller’s truck likely to be a log tractor, a pole trailer rig or a flatbed set up for sawn lumber, and we buy those as they stand. Send photos of the bunks, the stakes and the cab along with the VIN.
General freight shows up on 15 of those Linden carriers in the FMCSA listing, and machinery or large objects on 8. A lowboy tractor or a dry van tractor that has moved equipment around Marengo County fits what we collect. Tell us what the truck pulled and whether the trailer goes with it, so we know what to bring for the pickup.
Small outfits that stay inside Alabama
Intrastate work accounts for 39 of the Linden carriers in FMCSA’s carrier census, against 5 that run interstate, and 16 are private fleets hauling their own goods. A truck kept on Alabama routes is most often parked at a yard, a farm or a house near town, and that is where we come for it. Send the yard or farm address with a name and number for the person keeping the keys in Linden.
The three biggest fleets based here run 15, 10 and 4 power units, each with a matching count of drivers, per the same federal carrier census. If you own one of those smaller operations and are selling several tractors at once, list each VIN and where each one sits; we can plan one visit around all of them.
Seven Linden carriers report mileage to FMCSA, and their median is 60,000 miles a truck each year. Note your odometer reading when you first write to us, since that is one of the first figures we ask for.
Linden tractors stopped at the scales, 2024 to 2026
A 2021 median model year comes out of FMCSA roadside inspection records for the 36 Linden-based trucks checked at the roadside over the two years ending August 2026. Roughly 31 percent of them were ten or more model years old, by those FMCSA inspection records. Whatever the model year on your title, we take the truck, so have the year, make and model ready.
FMCSA’s carrier census shows Linden adding a pair of new carriers in 2024 and another pair in 2025. If your company is newly set up and you are selling a tractor bought under its name, the title should already show that business as owner; check that before we arrange the collection.
Coats Avenue
A license office half a mile from the courthouse square
In Linden, the County License Plate Issuing Official who handles Alabama Department of Revenue title work for Marengo County keeps an office at 101 E. Coats Ave., Linden, 36748, which the Alabama Department of Revenue’s office list places about half a mile from the centre of town. If a title is lost, that office is the place to start a replacement application before a sale.
Bring the registration and your ID when you visit Coats Avenue, and if a lender is still on the title, ask the lender for a lien release first. With the signed title or a replacement in hand, the sale of a Linden truck can go ahead without a second trip into the office.
Cement, propane and the Magnolia rail yard
Fourteen and a half miles north of Linden, the Mine Safety and Health Administration lists the Demopolis Plant as a cement plant. Bulk and dump tractors that have worked that site can be collected wherever they now sit, in Demopolis or back home in Linden.
The Energy Information Administration records the Demopolis Propane Terminal 15.2 miles north of town. A propane bobtail or tank tractor tied to that terminal is a truck we buy; send its VIN and tell us whether the tank stays on it.
Heading south-east, the Magnolia rail yard sits 14.7 miles out on the North American Rail Network kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. A tractor that shuttles loads to Magnolia can be picked up at the yard if the owner lets us in; name the contact who can open the gate.
Cattle, cotton and jobs around Linden
Around Linden, Marengo County holds 434 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, with cattle, cotton and soybeans at the top. Grain, feed or hay appears as cargo for 5 Linden carriers in FMCSA’s carrier census, so a livestock hauler or a hopper tractor parked out on a farm is one we collect from the field gate.
Linden held 597 jobs in 2023 on the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts, while six construction establishments around town show up in County Business Patterns. A dump truck or a stake bed from a local builder qualifies too; a few clear photos and the title are what we need to begin.
The questions we get asked in Linden
- My log truck is parked out at a farm off the highway. Can the pickup happen right there at the farm outside Linden?Linden sits among 434 Marengo County farms counted by USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, and we collect from farms, yards and homes alike. Give us the address and directions to where the truck is parked.
- The pink slip for my Marengo County tractor is lost. Who issues a new one near Linden?The Marengo County license office of the Alabama Department of Revenue is at 101 E. Coats Ave., Linden, half a mile from town on the Alabama Department of Revenue’s list, and it handles title applications. Start the replacement there before the sale.
- Do you buy trucks that have hauled for the cement plant near Demopolis?The Demopolis cement plant, 14.5 miles north of Linden in the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s listing, is a site we collect trucks from. Tell us the truck’s make, model year and VIN to begin.