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

Just 0.8 miles south-east of Guthrie, the yard named for the town appears in the North American Rail Network that the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics maintain. A truck that shuttles loads to and from that yard is often parked close to it between runs, so give us the exact lot or street where it sits and we will come to it there.

If your tractor or straight truck has worked the rail yard, a short note on what it carried there helps us ask the right questions. Send photos of the cab, the frame, the fifth wheel or bed, and the tires along with that note.

Around Guthrie the fields lean to corn, soybeans and wheat, and USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 551 farms in Todd County as a whole. Hopper trailers, grain trucks and farm tractors that move those crops are trucks we buy, whether they spend the year on a farm lane or at an elevator.

Seventeen of Guthrie’s 33 active carriers name grain, feed and hay as a cargo in FMCSA’s carrier census, while a dozen name farm supplies. If your truck hauls for a farm operation, tell us where it is parked between harvests; a barn lot or field entrance outside Guthrie is a fine place for us to pick it up, as long as we know how to reach it.

Guthrie’s carriers mostly stay in Kentucky: FMCSA’s carrier census lists 23 of the 33 as intrastate and 10 as interstate, and 27 run as private fleets carrying their own goods. Drivers on those rosters work close to home too, with 64 operating within 100 miles and 13 beyond it, by the same federal census.

For six carriers that report mileage, the median truck covered 6,775 miles a year in FMCSA’s carrier census. Have the odometer reading, the VIN and any service records ready before you contact us; those three things answer most of what we will ask about a truck that has worked this local pattern.

No fleet based in Guthrie runs more than six power units, according to FMCSA’s carrier census, and the three biggest pair those six trucks with three, four and five drivers. An owner with one or two trucks here is the usual seller we hear from, and we are glad to buy a single unit.

If you are selling several trucks from a small fleet at once, list each one with its VIN, year and the title it carries. We can collect them from one yard or from separate addresses around Guthrie, so tell us where each truck will be.

Two crushed-stone quarries lie north of Guthrie on Mine Safety and Health Administration records: Todd County Stone at 12.1 miles and Elkton Quarry at 12.8 miles. Dump trucks and tri-axles that haul aggregate out of those pits are part of what we purchase.

A truck that works the quarry roads may be parked at the pit or back in Guthrie at the end of the shift, so say which. Machinery and large objects appear as a cargo for 8 local carriers in FMCSA’s carrier census, and lowboys and heavy-haul tractors that move that equipment are welcome here as well.

On the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts for 2023, Guthrie’s factories account for 151 of 389 local jobs, a 38.8 percent manufacturing share. Box trucks, flatbeds and yard tractors that serve a plant are trucks we take, and the loading dock or plant lot is a workable pickup spot if the owner allows access.

Wholesale trade adds 72 jobs, an 18.5 percent share, in the same LEHD figures from the Census Bureau. If your truck runs deliveries out of a warehouse in Guthrie, let us know whose permission we need to enter the lot and when the gate is open.

In Kentucky titles run through the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, and its county clerk offices handle them; for Guthrie that is the Todd County Clerk at 200 East Washington, Elkton, 42220, about 10.9 miles away. If the title is missing, a duplicate from that county clerk office is the step to take before the sale.

Bring your registration and identification to the Elkton office, and if a lender still holds a lien, ask the lender for a release first. With the title in your name, we can complete the purchase and collect the truck wherever it sits in Guthrie.

• Will you take a hopper or grain truck off a Guthrie farm?Todd County has 551 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, growing mainly corn, soybeans and wheat, and grain trucks and hopper tractors from those farms are trucks we buy. Tell us where the truck is parked and we will collect it there.
• Will you pick up a dump truck that works the quarries north of town?Todd County Stone and Elkton Quarry sit 12.1 and 12.8 miles north of Guthrie on Mine Safety and Health Administration records, and dump trucks from either pit can be collected where they are parked. Send the pit’s address and tell us who opens the quarry gate.
• Can a Guthrie owner with a single truck sell to you?Guthrie’s fleets top out at six power units in FMCSA’s carrier census, and one truck is all we need to make a purchase.