ERA - 1, Carbondale and the aggregate haul
The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists ERA - 1, a sand and gravel operation, 2.8 miles north-east of Gypsum. A dump truck or end-dump tractor that has worked that pit may still be parked at the site, so tell us whether a gate or a site contact stands between us and the truck before we schedule the pickup.
Farther out, the Carbondale Plant sits 17.4 miles south-west of town, another sand and gravel operation on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s register. If your truck runs between Carbondale and Gypsum, send us the plate, the VIN and a few clear photos of the bed, the cab and the tires, and say which yard it sleeps in.
West Glenwood and the valley freight
Twenty-one miles west, the North American Rail Network maintained by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics places the WEST GLENWOOD rail yard. Tractors that shuttle loads to and from a yard like that are trucks we buy, whether they are day cabs or sleepers.
Should your rig sit near Glenwood rather than in Gypsum itself, leave it there. Give us the address, a name to call on the day, and the title in the owner’s name, and the collection happens where the truck already is.
Log haulers, lowboys and private fleets around Gypsum
Gypsum has 222 active carriers on FMCSA’s carrier census, and 200 of them are intrastate operators against 22 that cross state lines. The same census marks 119 of them as private fleets hauling their own goods; if yours is one, have the business name that appears on the title ready when you call.
By cargo type, FMCSA’s census shows 96 carriers registered for general freight, 41 for machinery and large objects, 30 for logs, poles, beams and lumber, and 28 for motor vehicles. A log truck, a lowboy tractor, a car hauler or a box truck all fit that list, and each one goes on the same short form.
The three biggest registered fleets in town field 43, 32 and 20 power units according to FMCSA’s carrier census. If you are clearing several trucks from a fleet that size, send the VINs as one list and we will work through them together.
Short hauls and the miles they log
FMCSA’s census counts 568 drivers here working within 100 miles and 172 who go beyond that radius. If your truck works that local radius, tell us the Eagle County yard or driveway where it parks between jobs.
Among 46 carriers reporting it, the median annual mileage per truck comes to 11,932 on FMCSA’s census figures. Read the odometer before you contact us and include it with the photos; it is one of the first figures we ask for.
New registrations in Gypsum numbered 11 in 2024 and 10 in 2025, per FMCSA’s carrier census. If you started an operation in one of those years and are now selling, your USDOT number and the purchase paperwork for the truck are the two things to keep at hand.
Between September 2024 and August 2026, FMCSA roadside inspection records cover 120 trucks from Gypsum and put their median model year at 2015.5. Half of those trucks were ten or more model years old.
Whatever the model year of your truck, the steps stay the same: the title, the current registration, and any service records you have. Add the inspection reports from those roadside stops if you kept them.
Construction, ranching and the rules in force
The Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts for 2023 put 698 of Gypsum’s 2,381 jobs in construction, 296 in transportation and warehousing, 202 in manufacturing and 99 in wholesale trade. Gypsum’s 158 construction establishments, counted in the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns, are the other half of that construction picture. Mixers, dump trucks and flatbeds that serve those job sites are part of what we collect.
Across Eagle County, USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture records 211 farms, with cattle, sheep and hogs the leading lines. A livestock hauler or a ranch flatbed parked out on a county road is no harder for us to reach than one in town; send the directions along with the title.
Colorado’s Air Quality Control Commission lists the Advanced Clean Trucks Rule and the Heavy-Duty Low NOx Rule as in force in the Colorado Code of Regulations. Include a photo of the engine emissions label with your other pictures so the engine details reach us with the truck.
The questions we get asked in Gypsum
- My dump truck sits at the sand and gravel pit outside Gypsum. Must I haul it off the gravel before you come?ERA - 1 sits 2.8 miles north-east of town on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list, and we collect from the pit itself. Give us the name of someone who can let us onto the site.
- Would you take a Gypsum log truck that hauls timber through Eagle County?Thirty carriers in Gypsum are registered for logs, poles, beams and lumber on FMCSA’s carrier census, and their trucks are on our list. Photograph the bunks, stakes and cab, and send them with the VIN and the odometer figure.
- The truck is near Glenwood Springs and I live in Gypsum. Will you collect it out toward Glenwood?The WEST GLENWOOD rail yard is 21 miles west of Gypsum on the North American Rail Network, and a truck parked out that way is collected where it stands. You sign the title and hand over the keys from wherever suits you.
- Our company hauls its own materials around Gypsum. What paperwork goes with each truck we sell?FMCSA’s carrier census lists 119 private fleets in Gypsum, and for each truck we need the title in the business’s name, the current registration and the USDOT number. Shop invoices or maintenance logs from Eagle County garages round out the file.