Rice, soybeans and cattle on the roads out of Basile
Around Basile, Evangeline Parish carries 565 farms on USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, and rice, soybeans and cattle top the parish’s list. Grain trucks, dump-bed farm trucks and cattle-hauling tractors are the equipment that follows those three crops, and we buy each of them from the farm where it is kept.
A truck that only comes out at harvest often spends the rest of the year in a shed or beside a rice dryer outside town. Moving it to town is not needed; give us the farm road, the gate it sits behind and a phone number for whoever holds the key, and we plan the collection around that spot.
Farm trucks are often registered to a family member or to the farm itself rather than to the person selling. Check whose name is printed on the Louisiana title before you call us, so the right signature is ready on collection day.
West toward the pit
Aggregate hauling twenty-odd miles west of Basile
Out west of Basile, 21.4 miles away, sits the Indian Village Plant, a sand and gravel operation on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s register. Tandem dump trucks and end-dump tractors are what aggregate work of that kind keeps busy, and both are trucks we take.
If your dump truck is parked at the pit or at a yard on the way there, tell us which side of the highway it sits on and whether a tow vehicle can reach it on firm ground. Photos of the bed, the hoist, the cab and the VIN plate help us match what you describe before we send anyone out.
A small employment base with building work in it
Basile held 255 jobs in 2023 by the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts (LODES), a small base where a contractor’s truck usually lives at the owner’s house. Our driver picks it up from that driveway or from behind the shop.
Basile’s building trades show up as five construction establishments in the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns, each a likely owner of a flatbed or a small dump truck. We buy those trucks, box trucks included, whether the business is still operating or the truck is the last piece left from it.
If the truck belongs to a business, have the business registration and the name of the person allowed to sign for it ready. A short list of service records, if you kept them, travels with the truck and answers questions before they are asked.
The OMV counter over in Eunice
Titles in this state are handled by the Louisiana Office of Motor Vehicles, which runs its counter service through OMV offices. The nearest one listed by the Louisiana Office of Motor Vehicles is the OMV Eunice Office at 2101 W Ash Street, Eunice, 70535, about 9.7 miles from Basile.
A missing title is replaced at that office before the sale, not after it. Bring your identification and the truck’s VIN, and if a loan was ever recorded against the truck, bring the lien release from the lender as well.
Once the replacement title is in hand, send us a photo of the front of it along with the truck photos. The name, VIN and any lienholder shown there tell us the paperwork is in order for collection.
Picking a truck up in or around Basile
Basile sits in Evangeline Parish, with Eunice nearby and the Indian Village Plant out to the west, and we collect anywhere across that stretch. Whether it sits in a Basile yard or on a parish back road, our driver comes to it.
Tell us the address, the make, the model and the model year, and say whether the keys are with the truck. Add photos of all four sides, the cab interior and the odometer, and we have what we need to arrange the pickup.
The questions we get asked in Basile
- My rice truck sits on the farm outside Basile most of the year. Can you load it up right from that field?Evangeline Parish has 565 farms on USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, and most farm trucks around Basile are parked on one of them. We collect from the farm itself; send us the road, the gate and a contact who can let us in.
- I misplaced the title to my truck. Is there an OMV counter close to Basile?Basile owners go to the OMV Eunice Office at 2101 W Ash Street, Eunice, 70535, which the Louisiana Office of Motor Vehicles places about 9.7 miles from town. Replace the title there first, then send us a photo of it with the truck photos.
- My dump truck worked the gravel pit west of town. Is a gravel dump truck from Basile something you take?The Indian Village Plant, which the Mine Safety and Health Administration lists as a sand and gravel operation 21.4 miles west of Basile, is the kind of site dump trucks here serve, and we buy them. Photograph its bed, hoist and VIN plate for us before collection.