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Olive Hill · Carter County · Kentucky

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

Olive Hill sits in Carter County with a stone quarry just east of town and timber, cattle and tobacco country all around it, and the trucks registered here haul logs, lumber, machinery and farm supplies along the roads between them.

Selling a truck in Olive Hill? Tell us about it and we'll take it from there.

Aggregate haulers working the Valley Stone road

Valley Stone, a crushed-stone quarry, lies 2.1 miles east of Olive Hill according to the Mine Safety and Health Administration. A dump truck or tri-axle that hauls aggregate out of that pit is often parked at the quarry or at the owner’s place on the edge of town, and we collect it from wherever it sits; just send the gate address and who holds the key.

Heading north, the Mine Safety and Health Administration places Buffalo Valley Resources LLC, another crushed-stone operation, 7.7 miles away, and Messer Clay Company, an industrial-mineral mine, 8.5 miles to the north-east. If your truck has run between those sites, photograph the bed, the hoist and the cab interior, and note which quarries it served so our questions start from the work it actually did.

River Sand & Gravel, LLC sits 21.7 miles north-west by the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s listing. A gravel truck based out that way still counts as an Olive Hill pickup for us; give the location and whether a lowboy can reach it.

Poles, beams, boards

Knuckleboom rigs and lumber flatbeds out of Olive Hill

Of the 117 active carriers that FMCSA’s carrier census lists for Olive Hill, 36 declare logs, poles, beams and lumber as cargo, ahead of the 25 hauling general freight. Owners of log trucks, knuckleboom rigs and pole trailers here should have the title, the current registration and any loader service records together before calling.

The same federal carrier census counts 19 local carriers moving machinery and large objects, the kind of lowboy and equipment-trailer work that follows timber jobs and quarry sites. Tell us the trailer type and whether it sells with the tractor, and send a photo of each data plate.

Stock trailers, tobacco wagons and hay flatbeds

Around Olive Hill, farms raise cattle, horses and tobacco first, and USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 681 farms across Carter County. A stock trailer rig, a grain or hay truck, or a flatbed kept in a barn lot can be picked up right there; tell us whether the lane is gravel or paved.

FMCSA’s census records 15 carriers in town declaring farm supplies as cargo. If your truck is registered as a farm vehicle rather than a commercial one, say so up front and have the registration card handy, since that tag type changes what we ask for at pickup.

Sixty-three own-goods outfits

Private trucks parked behind Olive Hill shops and barns

Intrastate operators make up 87 of the town’s carriers in FMCSA’s carrier census, against 30 that run interstate, and 63 are private fleets hauling their own goods. A business that owns one or two trucks for its own work can sell them the same way a for-hire outfit does: title in the company name, a signer with authority, and the VIN.

FMCSA’s carrier census shows 159 drivers staying inside the hundred-mile radius and 43 working past it. Short-haul trucks tend to come home each night, so the address you give us is usually the yard or the driveway where we will find it.

Olive Hill trucks logged a median of 21,717 miles a year across the 29 carriers that filed mileage with FMCSA. Have the odometer reading and a photo of the dash ready when you reach out.

Yards with several tractors

Small outfits and a few multi-truck yards

The biggest fleet registered in Olive Hill runs 29 power units with 16 drivers on FMCSA’s carrier census, followed by operations with 10 and 8 power units. Selling several trucks at once is no problem; list each VIN and where each one is parked, and we plan the collection as one job.

New registrations stay modest, with FMCSA’s census showing 5 carriers starting up in 2025 and 4 in 2024. If you started a hauling business recently and the truck is still financed, tell us the lender’s name so the lien release is part of the plan from day one.

Plates from 2007

Olive Hill rigs stopped at Kentucky scales

When roadside officers checked 44 Olive Hill trucks from September 2024 to August 2026, their median model year came out at 2007 and 77 percent were ten or more years old, per FMCSA roadside inspection records. Whatever the year, send the model year, engine and transmission along with your photos.

Keep inspection reports from those roadside stops in the truck’s file, along with any annual inspection sheets. They give us a clear picture of the truck alongside the photos you send.

Replacing a lost title at the courthouse in Grayson

In Kentucky, the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet issues titles through county clerk offices, and for Olive Hill that is the Carter County Clerk at 300 West Main Street, Room 232, Grayson, 41143, 11.9 miles from town by the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet’s listing. A missing title gets replaced there, and the signature lines on the back must match the name on the front.

Sellers in town work in an economy that the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts put at 568 jobs in 2023, and County Business Patterns from the Census Bureau records 14 construction establishments. Contractors among them who sell a work truck should bring the business’s title paperwork and a lien release if the truck was ever financed.

The questions we get asked in Olive Hill

  • Can my tri-axle be picked up at Valley Stone?Valley Stone sits 2.1 miles east of town on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list, and a truck parked there or at any nearby pit can be collected on site; send the gate address and contact.
  • Is a knuckleboom log rig from Olive Hill something you take?Log and lumber hauling is the most common cargo among Olive Hill carriers in FMCSA’s carrier census, with 36 declaring it, and those trucks and their trailers are exactly what we purchase.
  • Lost the pink slip for my Olive Hill truck - where does Grayson handle that?The Carter County Clerk at 300 West Main Street, Room 232, in Grayson, 11.9 miles away according to the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, handles title replacement for the Cabinet.
  • Can a farm-plated truck be sold?Carter County’s 681 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture keep plenty of farm trucks in use, and a farm-plated truck sells with its title and registration card just like a commercial one.

Sell your truck in Olive Hill

From Olive Hill to the quarries north toward Messer Clay and the county clerk in Grayson, we collect trucks across Carter County.