Hay and feed loads
Hopper loads out of Wendell
Of Wendell’s 76 active carriers in FMCSA’s carrier census, 44 list grain, feed or hay as cargo, 40 list general freight, 27 list dry bulk commodities and 25 list farm supplies. A tractor that has pulled hopper or flatbed loads of hay and feed is the kind of truck we collect around here; tell us which trailer it was paired with and whether the trailer is part of the sale.
Those cargo lines overlap, since one outfit can file several, so a single Wendell truck may have moved hay one week and bagged farm supplies the next. When you describe yours, list each kind of load it handled; that tells us how it was set up without you having to dig out old logbooks.
Have the title, the current Idaho registration and a few clear photos of the cab, frame and tires ready before you call, and we can work out the rest from the VIN.
Milk and feedlots
Milk, cattle and corn around town
Around Wendell and across Gooding County, USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 499 farms, with milk, cattle and corn as its top products. Trucks serving those operations often stay parked at the dairy, the feedlot or the farm shop between jobs, and that is where we come to collect them.
If your truck is sitting behind a barn or in a field yard off a gravel lane, send us the address along with a note about the gate and the ground underfoot.
In the 2023 LEHD job counts from the Census Bureau, agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting account for 278 of the 950 jobs located in Wendell, a 29.3 percent share. The same LEHD count puts 66 Wendell jobs in manufacturing and 63 in construction, and trucks from those trades are welcome too.
Idaho lines, state lines
Interstate and in-state outfits
FMCSA’s carrier census splits Wendell’s carriers into 43 that operate only inside Idaho and 33 authorised for interstate work, with 24 running as private fleets that haul their own goods. An in-state hay truck and an interstate tractor sell the same way: we need the title in the seller’s name and the registration that matches it.
Driver radius tells a similar story. The same census lists 75 drivers working within a hundred-mile radius of their base and 93 going farther out. If your truck is parked out of state when you decide to sell, give us its location wherever it is.
Wendell’s typical tractor logs 38,501 miles a year, the median across 24 local carriers that report mileage in FMCSA’s carrier census. Snap the dash with the odometer lit when you take the cab photos for us.
Wendell outfits by unit count
Single rigs beside bigger Wendell yards
Most outfits here are small, yet the census does show a handful of bigger operations: one runs 22 power units with 34 drivers, another 10 units with 8 drivers, and a third 7 units with 7 drivers, according to FMCSA’s carrier census. If you are clearing several trucks out of a yard at once, list each VIN and its title status in one message and we will plan the pickups together.
New entrants keep appearing as well: FMCSA’s carrier census records 8 new carriers starting up in Wendell in 2024 and 6 in 2025. A newer owner selling a first truck needs nothing special from us, just the title and registration in hand.
Scale-house stops
How new Wendell rigs run
Thirty-five Wendell-based trucks were stopped for checks from October 2024 to August 2026, and FMCSA roadside inspection records put their median at a 2020 model, with 28.6 percent dating back a decade or more. Put the model year, make and model in the first line of your message to us, whichever decade it comes from.
A Wendell tractor pulled over for one of those checks has an inspection sheet; clip it to the title. Service invoices and inspection sheets give us the truck’s history alongside the photos you send.
Eleven miles to the Gooding counter
Titles in Idaho are issued through the Idaho Transportation Department, which handles them at county Assessor’s Office motor vehicle offices. For Wendell, the closest is Gooding – Combined Services at 145 7th Ave E., Gooding, 83330, which the Idaho Transportation Department lists 11.3 miles from town.
If the title has gone missing, start the duplicate at that Gooding office before we schedule collection, and bring your ID and the VIN. Where a lender still appears on the Idaho title, get its lien release in writing while you are at the Gooding counter.
Gooding County mine and Twin Falls rails
Ida-Ore to the east, Twin Falls rail to the south-east
East of Wendell by 13.8 miles, the Ida-Ore industrial-mineral mine appears in Mine Safety and Health Administration listings. A truck that has hauled from a mine site like that may be parked there; let us know who controls access, so the collection can be arranged with the site.
To the south-east, the North American Rail Network from the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics places the Twin Falls rail yard 19.5 miles from Wendell. If your truck ran loads to or from that yard and is now parked near Twin Falls, it can stay there; send the address and we will collect it where it sits.
The questions we get asked in Wendell
- Where does a Wendell owner go for a duplicate Idaho title?Gooding – Combined Services, a county Assessor’s Office motor vehicle office at 145 7th Ave E. in Gooding, is 11.3 miles from Wendell according to the Idaho Transportation Department, which issues Idaho titles. Once the duplicate is in hand, reach out and we will set up the Wendell collection.
- Do you buy hay and feed trucks from Wendell?Grain, feed and hay is listed by 44 of Wendell’s 76 active carriers in FMCSA’s carrier census, and those trucks are what we buy here. Include the hopper or flatbed it pulled when you write to us.
- Can you collect from a dairy outside Wendell?Gooding County’s 499 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture are where many local trucks stay parked, and we collect from the farm. Give us the address and directions to where the truck sits.