Plants and quarries
Cement, minerals and stone around Trussville
The Mine Safety and Health Administration places the Leeds Plant, a cement plant, 8 miles south of Trussville, and the Jordan Plant, an industrial-mineral mine, 7.9 miles to the south-east. A dump truck or mixer that works those two sites may well be parked out on the Leeds side when you call, and that is fine; give us the street address and we collect it there.
West of town, Dolcito Quarry sits 12.5 miles out and Mine #1 is 13.4 miles to the north-west, both crushed-stone quarries on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list. If your truck hauled aggregate from either one, send photos of the bed, the frame and the cab, plus the registration, so we know which truck we are looking at before we arrive.
Tractors working the yards south-west and west of town
Two rail yards appear on the North American Rail Network kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics: Norris, 9.8 miles south-west, and New Boyles, 13.6 miles west. A tractor that shuttles freight to and from those yards can be picked up at a yard lot or a drop lot nearby, as long as someone can let us in.
Tell us whose gate the truck sits behind and who holds the key. For a tractor, have the title in your name and the VIN to hand; those two items answer most of what we ask first.
Who hauls here and what they carry
Of the 131 Trussville carriers active in FMCSA’s carrier census, 97 keep their loads inside Alabama while 34 hold interstate authority. That same FMCSA census marks 76 of them as private fleets, firms hauling their own goods, and we buy from those owners just as we do from for-hire operators.
By cargo type in that same FMCSA census, 56 carriers list general freight, 35 list machinery and large objects, 20 list logs, poles, beams and lumber, and 17 list metal sheets, coils and rolls. Lowboys, flatbeds, log trailers and coil haulers all fit that mix, and we buy the tractor, the trailer or both.
New registrations show up too: FMCSA records 11 new carriers here in 2025 and 4 in 2024. If you started a small operation and are now selling the truck, the title and your USDOT number are what to have on the table.
How old the local trucks are and how far they go
FMCSA roadside inspection records stopped 158 Trussville-based trucks from late August 2024 to late August 2026; half were model year 2020 or newer, and 25.95 percent were a decade old or more. Whichever side of that line your truck falls on, we ask for the same papers: title, registration and any service records you kept.
Of the 25 carriers reporting annual mileage to FMCSA, the median is 30,000 miles per truck. The carrier census also lists 230 drivers working within 100 miles and 296 going beyond it, so a truck for sale here may be at home in Trussville or out on a run when you first get in touch.
The three biggest fleets in town, per FMCSA, run 126, 36 and 13 power units. If you are clearing several trucks out of a yard of that size, list each VIN and where each one is parked, and we plan one collection for the group.
Manufacturing, construction and clear bridges
Of 13,366 jobs counted in Trussville for 2023 by the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts, manufacturing holds 1,209 and construction 907, with wholesale trade at 539 and transportation and warehousing at 182. County Business Patterns from the Census Bureau lists 81 construction establishments, so dump trucks, flatbeds and service bodies are all part of the local fleet we buy.
The National Bridge Inventory lists 26 bridges in the area, with none load-posted and none under 14 feet of clearance. A tall rig or a loaded lowboy can reach a collection point here without a detour around a weight-limited span.
Cattle and Christmas tree farms nearby
USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 398 farms in Jefferson County, with cattle, cut Christmas trees and short-term woody crops as the leading products. Livestock haulers, grain-bed trucks and flatbeds that served those farms are trucks we purchase.
A farm truck often sits in a barn lot or pasture away from paved road. Send a pin or directions to the spot, mention whether the ground is firm enough for a tow vehicle, and include photos of the title and the plate.
The questions we get asked in Trussville
- My dump truck is parked near the Leeds cement plant. Will you come out there for it?The Leeds Plant sits 8 miles south of Trussville according to the Mine Safety and Health Administration, and we collect from there or anywhere around it. Give us the address and a contact who can open the site.
- I run an intrastate fleet out of Trussville. Can you take several trucks together?Intrastate operators make up 97 of the 131 active carriers in FMCSA’s carrier census for Trussville, and a multi-truck sale from one of them is something we handle. Send each VIN, its title status and where it is parked.
- My truck hauled steel coil for a Trussville outfit. Will you buy it with the coil trailer?Seventeen Trussville carriers list metal sheets, coils and rolls in FMCSA’s carrier census, and we buy the tractor, the coil trailer or the pair. Send photos of each with the title and registration.