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Davenport · Scott County · Iowa

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

We buy all types of trucks from heavy to light duty

Sell your semi truck for cash in Davenport. We buy all commercial trucks — sleeper trucks, day cabs, dump trucks, flatbeds and mixers.

Dumps, aggregate haulers, day cabs and flatbeds, anywhere in Scott 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 Davenport

There are 4 trucking companies registered in Davenport, and 194 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 Davenport and pay at pickup.

194 owner-operators run out of Davenport 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.

237 companies in Davenport 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.

Mill Creek Mining, Inc. is 7 miles from Davenport, pulling crushed, broken limestone, and Davenport Plant and Stripping Crew Dept 620 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.

Davenport is corn country — 711 farms in Scott 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.

226 construction outfits work out of Davenport, 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.

13 warehouses and distribution centers ship out of Davenport. 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 Davenport?

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 Davenport, we pay at pickup, and we take the truck and the title the same day.

Scott County

Limestone on one bank, cement on the other

The heavy work here is stone and it is concentrated. The Linwood Mine sits about 8 miles south-west with 47 people on it. About a mile further down, the cement plant at Buffalo employs 114. Nine facilities within 20 miles of here carry a recorded headcount and they come to 227 people between them; those two sites are 161 of it. That is why that stretch of bank matters more to a truck than the city centre does.

The yards are strung along the same water. West Davenport is about 3 miles south and Nahant about 5, with Bettendorf about 6 miles east and Riverside about 8. The arsenal on the island is about 4 miles south-east, and the yard beside it is in Illinois.

The state line is a bridge, and it is crossed all day

That arsenal is the tell. It sits about 4 miles away in Rock Island County, Illinois, and so do two of the three nearest quarries — Mill Creek Mining at Milan about 7 miles south with 9 people, and Allied Stone about 8 miles with 21. A stone truck working out of here crosses a state line as an ordinary part of the day, not as an expedition.

And a bridge is exactly where a load gets decided. Within 10 miles of the mine the national bridge inventory records 99 structures; 2 are posted for load and 3 are coded below legal loads, none of them county-maintained, and the nearest of those is 6.40 miles off. The lowest operating rating among them that still admits a commercial vehicle is 17.2 metric tonnes, about 19.0 US tons — which over the roughly 11 tonnes an empty tandem dump already weighs leaves about 6.2 tonnes of stone. That is a part-loaded truck, not a legal one.

Iowa weight law

80,000 lb on paper, and 99 structures with opinions

Those crossings are why the state figure is only half the answer. Iowa Code § 321.463 sets a maximum gross weight of 80,000 lb for a vehicle or combination, subject to axle weight requirements, with penalties graduated by degree of infraction. A legal 80,000 lb truck grosses about 36.3 metric tonnes.

Statewide, 4,085 of 23,716 structures are coded below legal loads — 17.2 per cent, and counties maintain 18,237 of that total, 76.9 per cent. So the road that stops a loaded truck here is usually a county road, and the county is the tier a seller can actually telephone about a posting. Whether the state carries a commodity or harvest variance, and whether it would stop at the interstate, is not determined and is not inferred.

Iowa Code § 321.463; 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.

One rule here is genuinely useful to somebody selling a heavy truck. The salvage threshold is repair costs above 70 per cent of fair market value before the damage, with a floor: the truck must have been worth $500 or more before it was hurt. But rule 405.3(1) carries a carve-out at 30,000 lb gross vehicle weight rating — above that, the word salvage is not printed on the face of the title. Every truck in this trade is over 30,000 lb, so a branded class-eight dump truck does not look branded at a glance. Check the designation, not the front of the document.

Iowa Administrative Code 761—405.2(1) and 405.3(1). Information, not legal advice.

What we buy here

Both banks run different iron, and whatever you drive, the offer doesn’t change — we buy all of them. Dump trucks and aggregate haulers off the Linwood Mine and the Milan quarries. Mixers and tankers on the cement plant runs out of Buffalo. Day cabs and road tractors off the yard work, flatbeds, box trucks, service bodies and the pickups that follow the rest of it around.

Most of it works inside about 8 miles of the river — the mine, the cement plant, four yards and the arsenal gate.

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 Davenport

  • 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.
  • The truck is over in Illinois. Still yours?Yes, and it is a normal week here. Rock Island County starts about 4 miles away and two of the three nearest quarries are on that side. Tell us where it actually sits and we will work the paperwork from that.
  • 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.
  • Do you actually come to Scott 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. The Linwood Mine end of it is about 8 miles out and Le Claire about 13. Distance has not stopped us yet.

Why people call

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

The lots between the Linwood Mine and the Buffalo cement plant, about 8 miles south-west, hold a fair number of trucks in exactly that position — and so do the yards at Bettendorf about 6 miles east, and over the water in Rock Island County.

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 Davenport

The limestone mine, the cement plant downriver, and the arsenal on the island in between. 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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