If your truck belonged to a ranch, a contractor or a mill and carried only that business’s loads, the sale works the same way: we need the title, the registration and the name of whoever signs for the business.
Of those 61, the federal census records 41 operating intrastate only and 20 authorised to cross state lines. A truck that never left Idaho may carry only state registration; send a photo of that card along with the title so the paperwork matches the unit we collect.
If you started hauling recently and are now selling the tractor you began with, send the bill of sale from when you bought it along with the title.
General freight is the cargo most often listed, by 25 carriers in the federal motor carrier census, with machinery and large objects close behind at 20. Lowboys, flatbeds and the tractors that pull them are on the list of what we buy; photograph the deck, the ramps and the hitch as well as the cab.
Logs, poles, beams and lumber appear on 14 Salmon carrier registrations, according to FMCSA. A log truck or a self-loading rig is something we collect where it sits, so tell us whether it is parked at a landing, a mill yard or your own place, and whether the road in is open.
Ten local carriers tell FMCSA they haul grain, feed or hay. If yours is a straight truck with a bale bed or a grain box that only works during the season, a set of photos and the VIN are enough for us to start.
Cattle, horses and barley on Lemhi County farms
USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 306 farms in Lemhi County, with cattle, horses and barley as the leading products. Stock trucks and the tractors that pull livestock trailers belong on this list, and so do farm trucks registered to the ranch rather than to a person.
When the truck sits out on a ranch rather than in town, give us the road name, any gate code and a phone number for whoever is on site. If the title is in the ranch’s name, the person signing needs to be someone authorised to sell for it.
Mining, manufacturing and building work
The Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts put 1,741 jobs in Salmon in 2023; mining, quarrying and oil and gas extraction held 83 of them, 4.8 percent, and manufacturing another 75, or 4.3 percent. Dump trucks, water trucks and service bodies from that kind of work are trucks we buy, and any service records you kept go with them.
Forty construction establishments operate in the county according to County Business Patterns from the Census Bureau. If a builder is selling a dump truck or a flatbed that worked those jobs, let us know where it is parked between projects and who holds the keys.
On FMCSA’s carrier census, Salmon carriers report 70 drivers working within 100 miles of base and 78 working beyond that. A truck that ran long routes may be parked somewhere other than town when you decide to sell, and we can collect it there if you tell us the location.
Have the odometer reading ready when you contact us, together with the VIN, and the rest of our questions follow from those two figures.
The biggest fleet registered here runs 20 power units with 9 drivers, and the next two run 10 and 8 trucks, per the federal census. Selling several units at once is something we handle; list each VIN and where each truck is parked.
Bridges, the title and getting the truck out
Tell us the route from the truck to the highway so we can plan the collection around that posted crossing if it is on the way.
If the title has gone missing, the state’s title agency issues a duplicate; ask for it before the sale if you cannot find the original. Bring the registration and a photo ID for whoever signs, and the title transfer is completed when we collect.