Amrize Theodore and the quarry north of town
The Mine Safety and Health Administration places the Amrize Theodore Plant, a cement plant, 3.6 miles south-east of Tillmans Corner. Bulk pneumatic trailers and the tractors that pull them out of a plant gate like that one are trucks we buy, so if yours loaded at Theodore, mention it and send the plant’s gate passes or load tickets if you kept them.
Ten miles to the north-east, MLC - Mobile appears in Mine Safety and Health Administration listings as a crushed-stone quarry. Dump trucks and end-dump trailers that haul aggregate from a quarry often sit in a yard between jobs; tell us whose yard it is and who holds the gate key, and the collection is planned around that person rather than around you.
Fuel trailers off Blakeley Island and the bay terminals
Two petroleum product terminals on Blakeley Island show up in Energy Information Administration records, one 4.9 miles and the other 6.5 miles north-east of Tillmans Corner. A tank truck or a tractor that pulled fuel trailers off the island is on our list; photograph the tank’s data plate and the tractor’s VIN plate along with the cab, and gather the registration before you call.
South-east of town, a liquid bulk terminal 7.2 miles out is recorded by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. If your tractor served that terminal on a lease and the lease has ended, have the lease release or the carrier’s sign-off ready alongside the title, since that is the paper we ask for first when a truck has run under someone else’s authority.
Mobile’s port and its two intermodal ramps
According to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, the port of Mobile lies 8.9 miles north-east of Tillmans Corner, with the Intermodal Container Transfer Facility 10.8 miles out and a second ramp, listed simply as Container Terminal, at 11.9 miles. Day cabs that dray boxes between those ramps and the docks are a familiar sale for us here.
A drayage tractor sold from Tillmans Corner may still be parked near the ICTF or at a container yard when you reach out. That is fine: give us the street address, the name of whoever controls the lot, and a photo of the odometer, and we arrange pickup there instead of asking you to move it home.
Freight, building and factory work in Tillmans Corner
Of the 4,022 jobs counted in Tillmans Corner for 2023 by the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts (LODES), 2,210, or 54.9 percent, were in transportation and warehousing. With that many people working in freight, the trucks we hear about from this area are mostly tractors, box trucks and yard trucks, and the owner is often a driver who bought his own rig.
Construction accounted for 199 of those 2023 jobs and manufacturing for 73, the LEHD figures show, while County Business Patterns from the Census Bureau records 40 construction establishments. A contractor here selling a dump truck, a flatbed or a service body should list the attached equipment, such as a hoist, a crane or a toolbox body, so we know exactly what is on the chassis.
What inspectors see on local trucks
Between August 2024 and August 2026, inspectors stopped 82 trucks based in Tillmans Corner whose median model year, on FMCSA roadside inspection records, came out at 2021. Whatever year your truck is, the model year and engine make printed on the title and the door sticker are the first two things we will ask you to confirm.
Roughly a quarter of that Tillmans Corner group, 24.4 percent by FMCSA’s roadside count, had passed a decade since their model year. Older or newer, the steps match: a clear photo of each side, the VIN, and any inspection reports you received at the roadside, which you can send along with the rest.
Cattle, cotton and nursery trucks around Theodore and Mobile
USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 657 farms in Mobile County, and the leading products there are cattle, cotton and potted flowering plants. Cattle haulers, cotton module trucks and refrigerated box trucks that move nursery stock are all trucks we purchase from owners around Tillmans Corner.
If a farm truck from around Tillmans Corner is registered to the farm rather than to you personally, have that registration and the title side by side, along with the name of whoever signs for the farm. A truck kept in a barn or pasture can be collected there; tell us how a tractor-trailer or rollback reaches it.
The questions we get asked in Tillmans Corner
- My tractor sits at a container yard by the ICTF in Mobile, so must I haul it back down to Tillmans Corner to sell it?The Intermodal Container Transfer Facility is 10.8 miles north-east of Tillmans Corner on Bureau of Transportation Statistics listings, and we collect the truck where it sits. Give us the yard’s address and a contact who can let our driver in.
- I pulled a cement tanker out of the Amrize Theodore Plant for years; would you buy that rig and its trailer?Bulk trailers and the tractors that pulled them from the Amrize Theodore Plant, 3.6 miles south-east of town on Mine Safety and Health Administration records, are part of what we buy. Send photos of the tank, its data plate and the tractor, plus the title for each unit.
- My cattle truck’s title went missing somewhere on the farm in Mobile County. Can I still start the sale?Among Mobile County’s 657 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, a cattle truck with a missing title can still start its sale here: send us the VIN, photos and the registration. The title is needed before collection, so request a replacement from the state’s title office and tell us when it arrives.