Sell your semi truck for cash in Owens Cross Roads the easy and convenient way

The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists Lacey’s Spring, a crushed-stone quarry, 7.2 miles west of Owens Cross Roads, and Laceys Springs Quarry 9.1 miles out in the same direction. A dump truck or tractor that hauls aggregate between those pits and job sites is the kind of truck we buy here. Tell us which quarry it loaded at and send photos of the bed, the frame and the cab so we see the whole truck before we come.

Further out, Guntersville Sand appears in Mine Safety and Health Administration records as an industrial-mineral mine 22.4 miles south of town, and Cumberland #1, a dimension-stone quarry, lies 23.3 miles east on the same agency’s list. A truck that is parked at a quarry yard rather than at home is fine with us; give us the site name and who can open the gate, and we arrange the pickup around that.

Redstone Arsenal, a military installation, is 12 miles west of Owens Cross Roads according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. If your truck is kept on a contractor lot near the arsenal, tell us before the visit and arrange the access yourself; a truck parked outside the gate is simplest.

Huntsville’s rail intermodal ramp lies 17.8 miles west on Bureau of Transportation Statistics listings, and the North American Rail Network, kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, places the HUNTSVILLE INTERMODAL yard at the same distance. A day cab or sleeper that has pulled containers off that ramp is welcome; have the VIN, the registration and any service records together when you call.

Of the 29 active carriers that FMCSA’s carrier census places in Owens Cross Roads, 15 haul their own goods as private fleets, 20 keep to Alabama routes and 9 cross into other states. Most of these trucks stay in-state, so the registration and title you hold will usually be Alabama ones, which keeps the handover simple.

Cargo listed in that same federal census shows general freight hauled by 12 local carriers, heavy machinery and oversized loads by 10, farm supplies by 8 and grain, feed and hay by 7. Lowboys, flatbeds, grain trailers and the tractors that pull them all fit what we purchase, so describe the truck by the work it does and we will ask the rest.

On the FMCSA records, the three biggest outfits in town run 11, 10 and 8 power units, and 2 new carriers registered here in 2025 against none in 2024. Whether you are retiring one truck from a small operation or several from a fleet of ten, send the list of VINs and we can look at them together.

Among drivers employed by carriers here, FMCSA’s census shows 64 operating inside the hundred-mile short-haul radius and 28 working beyond it. So a truck from Owens Cross Roads usually ends its shift near town, in a shop lot, a barn or a driveway off the county roads, and we come out to that spot for it.

For the 28 long-range drivers on the FMCSA figures, a truck may be between loads in another county when you decide to sell. Give us the address where it will be sitting and a contact who can hand over the keys, and keep the title with you until the pickup is set.

Of the 454 jobs located in Owens Cross Roads in 2023, the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts put 151, a third of the total, in manufacturing. Trucks that run parts and finished goods for those plants, from box trucks to tractors, are part of what we buy; include the service records from the shop that kept them up.

Madison County held 928 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, with corn, cotton and soybeans its leading crops. A grain truck or a tractor that pulls hay and feed in season can sit idle for months on a farm; that is no obstacle, so photograph it where it stands and tell us how a truck can reach it.

Alabama titles are handled by the Alabama Department of Revenue, working through the County License Plate Issuing Officials. The nearest office on its list is Marshall County, at 425 Gunter Ave., Suite 110, Guntersville, 35976, which the Alabama Department of Revenue places 18.1 miles from Owens Cross Roads.

If the title is missing, start the replacement with that office before the sale rather than after it. Bring the registration and the VIN, and if a lender is still shown on the title, a lien release; once the paper is in hand we can finish the purchase without a second trip.

Guntersville also has a port on the Bureau of Transportation Statistics list, 18.6 miles south-east of town, so a truck that works the river terminal can be collected on the same side of the county as the title office.

• Which office near Owens Cross Roads reissues a misplaced truck title?The Alabama Department of Revenue lists Marshall County’s County License Plate Issuing Officials at 425 Gunter Ave., Suite 110, Guntersville, 35976, 18.1 miles from town. Start the replacement there and keep the VIN and registration with you.
• Is a grain truck from a corn or cotton operation around here something you take?Madison County’s 928 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture grow mostly corn, cotton and soybeans, and grain trucks and the tractors that haul feed and hay are trucks we purchase. Send photos from wherever the truck is parked.
• I run a small fleet out of town. Can you look at more than one truck?Fleets in Owens Cross Roads run up to 11 power units on FMCSA’s carrier census, and we look at several trucks at once. Send all the VINs in one message.