Plants in town
Two mineral plants within three miles of Quincy
The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists Active Minerals Attapulgite Division as a mineral processing plant 0.5 miles north-west of downtown Quincy. A tractor or dump truck that has worked that plant is likely parked close by, so give us the street address or the gate it sits behind and a name to call on collection day.
Quincy Plant and Mines, another mineral processing plant on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list, sits 2.3 miles north of town. If your truck spent its shifts hauling from that site, gather the title, the current registration and any service records the plant kept on it, and send them along with clear photos of the cab, frame and tires.
Sand and gravel pits south-west and south-east
A-Mining Group II LLC. runs a sand and gravel operation 7.5 miles south-west of Quincy, according to the Mine Safety and Health Administration. Dump trucks from a pit like that often stay on site between loads; tell us whether the pit is open to a visitor and who holds the key to the gate.
Further out, Silver Lake 1 appears in Mine Safety and Health Administration records as a sand and gravel operation 14.3 miles south-east of town. You do not have to bring the truck back into Quincy to sell it. Give us the pit location, the VIN and a photo of the odometer, and we plan the collection where the truck already is.
Freight, timber, machinery and farm loads out of Quincy
Of the 184 active carriers with a Quincy address in FMCSA’s carrier census, general freight is listed by 112. The census also shows 40 hauling logs, poles, beams and lumber, 28 moving machinery and large objects, and 26 carrying farm supplies. Whether yours is a box truck, a log tractor or a lowboy rig, tell us which of those loads it carried so our first questions fit the equipment.
Of those carriers, 115 run intrastate only and 68 cross state lines, while 70 operate as private fleets hauling their own goods, per the same FMCSA census. An owner of a private-fleet truck should have the business that holds the title sign off before we arrange pickup, since the name on the title is the name that signs.
The three biggest fleets on FMCSA’s census run 8, 7 and 6 power units. Twelve Quincy outfits joined FMCSA’s carrier census in 2025, following 10 that signed up in 2024. If you are one of those owner-operators winding down a single truck, the title, registration and your USDOT number are the three things to have on the table.
Corn, dairy and goat farms across Gadsden County
USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture puts 489 farms in Gadsden County, with corn, milk and goats leading the list. Grain trucks, milk tankers and livestock haulers that work those farms may be stored in a barn or a field lot; send a photo showing how the truck can be reached, and note any soft ground the collection truck should avoid.
Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting account for 530 of the 3,539 jobs located in Quincy, a 15 percent share in the Census Bureau’s 2023 LEHD job counts. Those LEHD counts give wholesale trade 238 jobs and manufacturing 212. If a farm or wholesale business owns the truck, have its registration and whatever maintenance log the operation kept ready before you contact us.
Model years, mileage and driving radius for Gadsden trucks
Across 110 trucks checked during FMCSA roadside inspections between September 2024 and August 2026, the median model year was 2018 and 40 percent were ten or more years old. Put your truck’s model year next to its make, model and VIN in the first message, and attach a clear shot of the data plate on the door jamb.
Forty-one Quincy carriers gave FMCSA a yearly mileage figure, and the middle truck among them logged 40,000 miles. The same census lists 182 drivers working within 100 miles of base and 206 working beyond that radius. A long-haul sleeper may be parked away from Gadsden County when you decide to sell; tell us the town it is in rather than moving it home first.
Bridges, rail yards and the routes in
In the National Bridge Inventory, Quincy has 22 bridges, 2 of them posted for load limits and none with clearance under 14 feet. Let us know if the truck sits on a road past one of the posted bridges, so the carrier sent for it can plan a route that avoids them.
Two rail yards on the North American Rail Network, Chattahoochee (AN) at 16.2 miles and Chattahoochee (CSXT) at 17.4 miles, lie north-west of Quincy. To the south-east, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics places the NRC-MCRC Tallahassee military installation 17.5 miles away. A truck that has worked rail transfers out by Chattahoochee can be collected from a yard lot there once the yard confirms access.
Contractors’ dump trucks and flatbeds in Quincy
Building contractors with an establishment around Quincy number 59 in the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns. Dump trucks, flatbeds and water trucks from those contractors are often parked at a yard or a job site; name the site and the hours someone is there to let a driver in.
Construction holds 84 jobs and mining, quarrying and extraction 129, while transportation and warehousing employs 82, by the LEHD figures for 2023. A truck shared between crews should have one person named to sign the title and hand over the keys, so the collection does not wait on a second signature.
The questions we get asked in Quincy
- My dump truck is still at the clay plant north-west of downtown. Will you pick it up from inside the plant grounds?Active Minerals Attapulgite Division sits 0.5 miles north-west of Quincy on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list, and we come to the truck at the plant. Name the plant contact who signs visitors in, and the driver’s arrival is set up through that person.
- My tractor pulls a log trailer between Gadsden County woodlots. Is a timber rig something you’ll take?Forty Quincy carriers on FMCSA’s census haul logs, poles, beams and lumber, and their tractors and log trailers are trucks we buy. Photograph the bunks, stakes and cab, then send those with the VIN and a scan of the title.
- My truck runs long routes and is parked out of state. Should I bring it home to Gadsden County first?FMCSA’s census shows 206 Quincy drivers working beyond 100 miles of base, and many of their trucks sit far from town. Give us the city where the truck is parked and a contact there, and the collection is planned at that spot.