Rail siding and aggregate
Rail yard and stone pits up the river road
Widows Creek, a rail yard listed in the North American Rail Network kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, lies 4.9 miles north-east of Stevenson. A tractor or straight truck that shuttles to that yard is usually parked close by between loads, so give us the street or lot where it stands and we will plan the collection there.
Half a mile past the yard, SRM Materials Bridgeport and a pit called Crusher 1 both appear in Mine Safety and Health Administration records as crushed-stone quarries, each 5.4 miles out in the same north-east direction. Dump trucks and tri-axles that run aggregate from those gates are the kind of equipment we collect; photograph the bed, the hoist and the cab, and note which quarry the truck served.
If the truck sits inside a quarry fence rather than on your own property, tell us who holds the gate key and when the site is open. We arrange a pit collection with whoever controls access, and a name and phone number for that person is the first thing we ask for.
Cut stone along the plateau
Top Tier Stone, 17.1 miles west, and Aguilar Stone Mines, 18.3 miles south-west, are recorded by the Mine Safety and Health Administration as dimension-stone quarries. Flatbeds and boom trucks that move cut slabs carry a different load from the aggregate haulers to the north-east, so describe the trailer or crane on the truck when you write to us.
Owners who keep a stone truck at one of those sites can leave it parked there. Send the address, the VIN from the door jamb and a clear photo of the plate, and the sale can go ahead without the truck moving back toward town.
Sixty-three carriers, most of them hauling close to home
FMCSA’s carrier census lists 63 active carriers based in Stevenson, and 42 of those operate intrastate only while 21 cross state lines. Thirty-eight are private fleets moving their own goods, so a good share of the trucks here belong to a business whose main work is something other than trucking.
Lumber, logs, poles and beams are the most common cargo, named by 25 of the town’s carriers in that same federal census, with general freight at 24, farm supplies at 22 and machinery or large objects at 19. Log trucks, flatbeds, lowboys and farm haulers all fit what we collect, and the cargo you list on your registration helps us know what to expect.
Of the drivers working for these outfits, 136 stay inside a hundred-mile radius and 35 go further, according to FMCSA. Among the 14 carriers that report annual mileage, the median works out to 13,101 miles per truck in the federal census, which is a figure to note on your listing rather than a judgement on the truck.
Yards with a dozen-plus tractors
Small outfits next to a few larger operators
The biggest operator on record with FMCSA runs 23 power units and 46 drivers, the next runs 18 units with 21 drivers, and the third has 5 trucks. If you are clearing out several units from a yard of that size, send one list with every VIN and where each truck is parked, and we will treat it as a single collection.
New registrations are uneven: the carrier census shows 7 Stevenson carriers starting up in 2025 and none in 2024. An owner who registered recently and is now selling should have the USDOT number and the title in the business name ready, since both get checked before the paperwork is signed.
Plates checked roadside
Twenty-seven inspections, one median year
Between August 2024 and August 2026, FMCSA roadside inspection records cover 27 trucks from Stevenson carriers, with a median model year of 2012; in those same records about 63 percent of the inspected trucks were ten or more model years old.
Whatever the year on your title, the same items help: the registration, any inspection reports you kept, service records if you have them, and photos of all four sides. A truck from a 2012 model year is handled exactly like one from last year.
Grand Avenue, DeKalb
DeKalb’s plate officials handle replacement titles
Titles in this state are issued through the Alabama Department of Revenue, which works through County License Plate Issuing Officials. For this area the Department of Revenue lists DeKalb County at 206 Grand Ave. S.W., Fort Payne, 35967, an office the Alabama Department of Revenue places roughly 30.6 miles from Stevenson.
If the title is missing or still shows a lienholder, start that request with the county official before we schedule anything. Take your registration and identification, plus the release letter if a lienholder’s name is still printed on the title.
Routes and work around town
Posted spans, plant work and corn country
The National Bridge Inventory counts 22 bridges in and around Stevenson, three of them posted for load and none with a clearance under fourteen feet. When you tell us where the truck is, mention if the only way in crosses one of the posted spans, so the right equipment is sent.
Census Bureau LEHD job counts for 2023 put 810 jobs in town, 137 of them in manufacturing (16.9 percent) and 84 in construction (10.4 percent). Out across Jackson County, USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture records 1,233 farms, with corn, soybeans and cattle at the top, and grain trucks or livestock haulers from those farms are ones we collect too.
The questions we get asked in Stevenson
- A tri-axle of mine sits at SRM Materials Bridgeport; can you collect it on site rather than in town?The quarries at Bridgeport sit 5.4 miles north-east of Stevenson in Mine Safety and Health Administration records, and we collect from the quarry itself. Tell us which pit it is and who can open the quarry gate for our driver.
- My title went missing; which office near Stevenson replaces an Alabama one?By the Alabama Department of Revenue’s own list, DeKalb County’s licensing office sits in Fort Payne at 206 Grand Ave. S.W., about 30.6 miles from Stevenson by that same Department of Revenue list, and it serves as a County License Plate Issuing Official. Request the replacement there and bring your registration and ID.
- I haul poles and beams out of Jackson County; is that the kind of truck you buy?Logs, poles, beams and lumber are the cargo named most often by Stevenson carriers, 25 of 63 in FMCSA’s carrier census, and those trucks are welcome. Text us the VIN, a few photos of the bunks or deck, and the yard where the log truck is parked.
- Mine is a 2012 tractor like many in Stevenson; does the year matter to you?Stevenson’s inspected trucks had a median model year of 2012 in FMCSA roadside inspection records, and we collect trucks of every year. The title, registration and a set of photos are what we need.