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Cedar Rapids · Linn County · Iowa

Sell your semi truck for cash in Cedar Rapids the easy and convenient way

We buy all types of trucks from heavy to light duty

Sell your semi truck for cash in Cedar Rapids. We buy all commercial trucks — sleeper trucks, day cabs, dump trucks, box trucks, flatbeds and grain hauls.

Day cabs, dumps, box trucks and flatbeds, anywhere in Linn County — whatever shape it’s in, as long as it’s all there. We come to you or buy it remotely and arrange the tow, handle the title, and pay at pickup.

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How it works

Five steps. One buyer. Deal done.

  1. 1
    Fill out the form or give us a call
    Either one works — a real person answers.
  2. 2
    Tell us about the truck
    Year, make, model, mileage, and how it runs.
  3. 3
    Take photos of the truck inside and out. If it's running take a video of the engine running.
    Phone pictures are fine.
  4. 4
    We agree on a price
    It's an estimate until we see the truck in person.
  5. 5
    We inspect, we pay, we take the title and the truck
    Cash or electronic, your choice. Deal done.
Title is required.
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Why sell to Big Ugly Truck?

Because you want the truck gone — not another listing, another no-show, or another "maybe."

We’re a direct buyer, not a broker. You deal with us. We buy semi trucks (our specialty) plus box, dump, utility, vocational, dually, and pickup — as long as it’s complete. Clear title required. All 50 states. We come to you.

The pitch in three beats:

1. Straight deal — no auction fees, no middleman cut, no endless tire-kickers.

2. Honest process — photos to start, offer you can take or leave, pay at pickup.

3. We handle the hard part — pickup and title work so you’re not chasing buyers across town.

Ugly ones welcome. Pretty ones too. If the title’s in hand, we’re ready to talk.

Call/text (404) 453-1427 or request an offer on the site.

We buy trucks in Cedar Rapids

There are 16 trucking companies registered in Cedar Rapids, and 251 of them are one-truck owner-operators. That's a lot of trucks working the same roads, and every one of them gets to the point where it's worth more sold than fixed. If that's where you are, you don't need a listing or an auction lot. Send us the photos, take the offer or leave it, and we come to Cedar Rapids and pay at pickup.

251 owner-operators run out of Cedar Rapids with one truck to their name. When that truck is done — the engine's tired, the emissions system is eating the profit, or you're just done driving — it's still worth money. We buy it direct, no broker, no consignment.

196 companies in Cedar Rapids run their own trucks instead of hiring it out. When a unit comes off the rotation, most of them trade it in and take whatever the dealer says. We'll make an offer on the whole truck instead, and we'll buy the whole batch if you're turning over the fleet.

Stationary Crushing Dept 405 is 3 miles from Cedar Rapids, pulling crushed, broken limestone, and Linn County Sand and Stripping Crew aren't far behind. That's dump trucks, mixers, end dumps and water trucks, and they get used hard. We buy them with the miles on them and the bed rusted through. Clear title, and we'll take it off the site.

Cedar Rapids is corn country — 1,416 farms in Linn County, and every one of them moves product on trucks. Grain haulers, hopper trucks, cattle haulers, flatbeds for hay. If yours has seen its last harvest, send us a few photos.

314 construction outfits work out of Cedar Rapids, and construction trucks live hard lives. Dump trucks, mixers, service bodies, lowboys, water trucks — we buy them with the dents and the hydraulic leaks. You'd have to fix them to sell them anywhere else; you don't have to fix them to sell to us.

15 warehouses and distribution centers ship out of Cedar Rapids. Box trucks and day cabs from that work rack up miles fast and get replaced on a schedule. If yours is coming off the schedule, we'll buy it before the lease company does.

How fast do you pay?

At pickup. Cash or electronic, your choice.

Do you come to Cedar Rapids?

Yes. We come to you anywhere in Iowa.

What if the truck doesn't start?

Send photos and tell us what it does. We buy trucks that are worth repairing.

What if there's a lien?

Tell us who holds it. We pay the lienholder and you get the difference at the same time.

What if I lost the title?

Get a duplicate from Iowa first. We'll wait; we can't close without it.

Do you buy more than one?

Yes. Fleets, pairs, a truck and a trailer together.

Fill out the form or call. We come to Cedar Rapids, we pay at pickup, and we take the truck and the title the same day.

Linn County

A mill in the middle and quarries all round it

The middle of this place is a food plant, not a warehouse. The Quaker Oats works sits about 1.2 miles north of the centre, and seven rail yards ring it inside about 4 miles — four of them within a mile and three quarters, then the Beverly pair and the Smith-Dows yard about 3 to 4 miles south-west. Grain arrives, cereal leaves, and a good deal of both changes to road inside that circle.

Outside it the ground is stone. A Wendling Quarries crushing plant is about 3 miles south-west with 12 people, the Lee Crawford Quarry Company about 4 miles north-west with 23, a Martin Marietta sand operation about 6 miles east, a Wendling dredge about 7 miles north-west, and a Martin Marietta quarry about 7 miles south-east with 15. Five stone operations, none of them far.

Twenty miles out, the quarries get bigger

Those near pits are the daily work. The bigger single sites are a drive: the Weber Quarry and Mill at Stone City is about 20 miles north-east with 24 people, the Conklin Quarry and Mill toward Iowa City about the same distance south with 17, and the Klein Quarry at Coralville about 20 miles south with 12.

So the pattern is a tight ring and a wider one, and a truck here tends to work in whichever it was bought for. Short mill-and-yard runs wear out a driveline in a way an odometer never shows; the 20-mile quarry legs put on the miles instead. You know better than we do which of the two yours has been doing.

Iowa weight law

The county can close the road for ninety days

Both of those rings run on county roads, and that is where the binding number lives. Iowa Code § 321.463 sets the general maximum gross weight at 80,000 lb for a vehicle or combination, subject to axle weight requirements. But state law lets a county limit vehicle weights for up to 90 days a year, and this county publishes an embargo that restricts gross weight to 5 tons on rock roads and 10 tons on hard-surfaced roads. Seasonal embargoes and bridge weight limits have to be signed and posted by the governing agency.

Five tons is a long way under 80,000 lb, and it is not a technicality — an empty tandem dump already weighs about 11 metric tonnes. Within 10 miles of the local quarry the bridge inventory records 237 structures, of which 4 are posted for load and 5 are coded below legal loads, 4 of those county-maintained. The nearest is 5.36 miles away and the lowest rating that still admits a commercial vehicle is 20.0 metric tonnes, about 22.0 US tons — roughly 9 tonnes of stone over the weight of the empty truck.

Iowa Code § 321.463; county road restrictions; FHWA National Bridge Inventory, Iowa 2025 file, items 21, 41, 64 and 70. Information, not legal advice.

Iowa paperwork

We need a title — unless it never had one

Beyond the road rules that is the whole of it in one sentence, and everything after it is a fix rather than a category. A counter replacement if the title is lost, a bonded route if the truck is old enough that it never had one. Neither stops a sale.

Two state rules are worth having right. The salvage threshold is repair costs above 70 per cent of fair market value before the damage, with a floor at $500 of pre-damage value — raised from 50 per cent on 1 July 2021, so an older write-up of it is out by twenty points. And a rebuilt title here is marked Rebuilt-IA, a designation that supersedes every other one and is carried onto all subsequent titles. The ordinary route needs a salvage theft examination certificate from a specially certified peace officer; an insurer holding the title can substitute its own certification, but only where the retail cost of repairs for all damage is under $3,000.

Iowa Administrative Code 761—405.2(1), 405.4(2) and 405.7(1); Iowa Code §§ 321.52(4) and 321.69. Information, not legal advice.

What we buy here

The mill and the quarries run different iron, and whatever you drive, the offer doesn’t change — we buy all of them. Box trucks and straight trucks off the Quaker Oats gates. Grain hauls and farm trucks coming into them. Dump trucks and aggregate haulers out of the Wendling Quarries and Lee Crawford operations, day cabs and road tractors on the yard work, flatbeds, service bodies and the pickups that follow the rest of it around.

Most of it works inside about 7 miles of one point — the mill, seven yards, and the Martin Marietta and Wendling pits around them.

We buy complete trucks. If the engine, transmission, doors, rear ends, drive shafts, wheels or anything under the hood have been removed, we can’t buy it. Small things — a missing bumper — are fine.

Straight answers

The questions we get asked in Cedar Rapids

  • Does it have to run?No. It does have to be complete, though — if the engine, transmission, doors, rear ends, drive shafts, wheels or anything under the hood have been removed, we can’t buy it. A missing bumper is fine. A missing driveline is not.
  • Do you actually come to Linn County?Yes. We come to you and drive it away, we come to you and tow it, we buy it remotely and arrange the tow, or you drive it to us. Everything close in is inside about 7 miles, and the Weber Quarry and Mill end of it is about 20.
  • What if I can’t find the title?We need a title — unless the truck is old enough that it never had one. If it’s lost, there’s a counter replacement. If there was never one to lose, there’s a bonded route. Neither stops a sale.
  • There’s still money owed on it. Now what?That’s a payoff and a lien release, and it’s the slow part rather than the hard part. Tell us up front and we’ll work it into the paperwork.
  • How do you pay?Cash or electronic payment, whichever you would rather have.
  • The road to me is posted. Does that stop you?No. It changes how the truck leaves, not whether we buy it — and a county embargo here can put a road down to 5 tons for up to 90 days a year, so it is a normal thing to work around rather than a surprise.

Why people call

Beyond the trucks themselves, the reasons repeat. A DOT physical didn’t go the way it used to. A quarry contract that filled the season for nine years went to somebody else. The truck is just sitting behind a shop, and every month it sits is another month of insurance on something that isn’t turning a wheel.

The lots around the Beverly yards and out toward the Lee Crawford Quarry Company about 4 miles north-west hold a fair number of trucks in exactly that position, and so do the ones by the Wendling Quarries plant about 3 miles south-west.

Most of those aren’t happy reasons, and we don’t treat them like they are. Somebody wants a straight answer and the truck gone by the end of the week. That’s what we’re here for.

Sell your truck in Cedar Rapids

The cereal mill in the middle of town, seven yards around it, and five quarries outside those. We come to you and drive it away, we come to you and tow it, we buy it remotely and arrange the tow, or you drive it to us. Tell us what you’ve got and we’ll take it from there.

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