Gravel, brick clay and the mines south of town
The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists Cosby #1 Pit, a sand and gravel operation 6.5 miles south-east of Valley Grande, and OAKMULGEE CRUSHER, another sand and gravel site 7.2 miles south-west. A dump truck or tri-axle that has worked those pits may still be parked at the pit gate, so tell us whose ground it is on and who can let our driver in.
Brick clay comes out of 27-Henry Brick-2, an industrial-mineral mine 5.5 miles south on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s register, and Reynolds Mine sits 17.4 miles north-east on that same list. Should your truck be standing at either site, send a photo of the cab, the frame and the bed taken where it stands, along with the VIN, and we will plan the collection around the mine’s access.
The SELMA yard, five miles down the road
Tractors that drop and pick up loads near that yard can be collected from a lot in Selma just as easily as from a driveway in town.
If the truck is parked near the yard rather than at your home, give us the street address and a phone number for whoever holds the keys. Have the title and current registration in the cab or in your hand when our driver arrives, and the handover takes one visit.
FMCSA’s carrier census counts 37 active carriers based in Valley Grande; 27 run intrastate, 10 run interstate and 12 are private fleets hauling their own goods. The biggest of them, on that same census, operates 3 power units with 3 drivers, and a one-truck owner here sells to us the same way a three-truck outfit does.
General freight is listed by 21 of those carriers, logs, poles, beams and lumber by 7, machinery and large objects by 6 and farm supplies by 5, according to the federal census of motor carriers. A log truck with a loader, a lowboy tractor or a farm-supply straight truck all fit what we collect, so say which kind of hauling yours did when you first contact us.
Driver radius in FMCSA’s registrations splits 25 within 100 miles and 32 beyond it, and the census logged 2 new carriers here in 2024 and 2 more in 2025. If you are one of those newer operators winding down, keep your USDOT number handy, since it helps us match the truck to its registration.
Whatever the model year of your truck, have its service records and any inspection reports together before you call. They let us confirm the specification and engine without guessing, and they travel with the truck to its next owner.
Construction accounts for 79 of the 361 jobs located in Valley Grande in 2023, a 21.9 percent share, per the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts. County Business Patterns from the Census Bureau records 35 construction establishments in the area; if your dump truck, flatbed or equipment hauler worked for one of them, tell us the kind of job sites it served.
USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 398 farms in Dallas County, with cattle, cotton and soybeans at the top of the list. A cattle hauler, a grain truck or a cotton-module rig parked out on a farm can be picked up right there; just give us directions to the field gate or barn.