Four Mile, Hances Ridge and the coal roads around Pineville
The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists the Four Mile coal mine 5.1 miles north-west of Pineville and the Hances Ridge Split #1 mine 6.3 miles to the south-east. A tractor or dump truck that hauls off those sites is often parked near the mine road between shifts, so give us the gate or turnout where it sits and the name of whoever can let us in.
Coal preparation plants are close as well: Balkan lies 8.1 miles east and Middlesboro Tipple 9 miles south, both on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list. If your truck has run coal between a mine face and one of those plants, tell us which run it worked and send photos of the bed, the frame and the cab so we know what we are coming to collect.
Further out, Harlan Quarry is a crushed-stone operation 22.5 miles to the north-east, again per the Mine Safety and Health Administration. Stone trucks based there or in Pineville can be collected at the quarry yard or at your house, whichever is easier for you.
Pole and coal haulers
Logs, coal and machinery out of a small Bell County town
FMCSA’s carrier census counts 87 active carriers based in Pineville, and 25 of them list logs, poles, beams and lumber as cargo, the same number that list general freight. Log trucks and the tractors that pull pole trailers are as much a part of this town’s fleet as van freight, and we buy both.
Eighteen of those carriers haul machinery and large objects, and 16 carry coal and coke, according to the same FMCSA census. If yours is a lowboy tractor that moves equipment between mine sites, have the registration and any trailer paperwork together before we talk, since we will ask whether the trailer goes with it.
Mining, quarrying and oil and gas extraction account for 156 of the 1,835 jobs located in Pineville in 2023, an 8.5 percent share in the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts. Those jobs sit alongside the mine and plant sites listed above; a truck that served them is one we can arrange to pick up in town or out at the site.
Pineville trucks that rarely leave the hollows of Bell County
Sixty-seven of Pineville’s carriers run intrastate only and 20 cross state lines, according to FMCSA’s carrier census, which also records 67 private fleets hauling their own goods. For a seller, that usually means the truck is close by: parked at a shop, a yard or a jobsite in Bell County rather than at a terminal several states away.
Among drivers, the FMCSA figures show 183 working inside a hundred-mile radius and 26 going beyond it. Eleven local carriers reported mileage, and their median truck covered 5,280 miles a year in that federal census. A truck that works this close to Pineville can be photographed where it stands, and those photos are the first thing we ask for.
From owner-operators to Pineville’s own mid-size fleets
The biggest fleet registered in Pineville runs 29 power units with 65 drivers, followed by fleets of nine trucks and four trucks, per FMCSA’s carrier census. Most carriers in town are far smaller than that, and a single truck is just as welcome as several.
If you are selling more than one unit, list each VIN with its location, since a fleet on several job sites around Bell County may need more than one stop. An owner-operator selling a single tractor only needs to tell us where it is parked and send a set of clear photos.
Thirty-nine inspections
Model year 2018 sits in the middle of Pineville’s inspected trucks
Between October 2024 and August 2026, federal officers stopped 39 trucks based in Pineville, and FMCSA roadside inspection records put the median build at model year 2018. Those same FMCSA inspections put just over 46 percent of the trucks at ten or more model years old.
We buy across that whole range, from late-model day cabs to trucks built well before 2018. Have the model year, the engine and the odometer reading ready when you contact us, along with any inspection or service records you kept.
A missing title goes through the Middlesboro branch clerk
A Pineville owner with no title in hand deals with the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, which issues titles through its county clerk offices. For Pineville sellers, the Bell County Clerk - Middlesboro Branch Office at 1475 Highway 25E Suite 4, Middlesboro, 40965, is 8.4 miles away, according to the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet’s list of clerk offices.
Start a duplicate there before we arrange collection if the title is missing or the name on it is not yours. Bring your registration and identification, and if a lender still shows on the title, ask the clerk’s office what the release requires.
Goats, honey and rail yards
Cattle trucks and the yards at Loyall and Corbin
Pineville’s county had 77 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, with cattle, goats and honey at the top of the list. A cattle hauler or farm truck parked on a Bell County property can be collected right where it sits; just tell us how to reach the gate from the road.
On the North American Rail Network kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, the Loyall rail yard lies 21.3 miles east of Pineville and the Corbin yard 24.8 miles north-west. A truck that runs freight to either yard can be picked up there or back in town.
The questions we get asked in Pineville
- My coal truck is parked near the Four Mile mine. Does it have to come down off the mine road first?Four Mile is 5.1 miles north-west of town on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list, and we collect from mine roads like that one. Tell us the turnout and who can open the gate.