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

Fifteen active carriers are based in Colfax according to FMCSA’s carrier census, and seven of them list general freight as cargo. If your tractor belongs to one of those small Colfax operations, send the VIN, a photo of each side and the cab interior, and tell us which trailer it usually pulled.

Four Colfax carriers each list logs, poles, beams and lumber, grain, feed and hay, and farm supplies on the FMCSA carrier census. A log truck parked at a wood yard or a grain hauler sitting at a farm off the parish roads can be collected where it stands, so give us the road name and say whether a loaded trailer is still hooked up.

Of those fifteen Colfax carriers, FMCSA’s records show ten working only inside Louisiana, five crossing state lines and four running private fleets for their own goods. For an interstate tractor, put the registration cab card with the title before we arrive.

The fleets on file with FMCSA’s carrier census in Colfax run three power units, two and two, with one to three drivers apiece. On a one-tractor operation, the owner who signs the title may also be the driver holding the keys, so have both the title and the keys at the truck on collection day.

New registrations show up too: the FMCSA carrier census logs three Colfax carriers starting in 2025 and one in 2024. If you bought a truck to start one of those businesses and financed it, have the lender’s name and the payoff letter on hand so the lien release can be arranged with the sale.

Around Colfax, Grant Parish has 200 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, with soybeans, cattle and cotton at the top. Grain trucks, cattle haulers and cotton flatbeds parked at a barn outside Colfax can be found from a pin dropped on the map.

Farm-plated trucks are still titled vehicles. Whether your truck carried soybeans from Grant Parish fields or cattle to a sale barn, find the title in the farm office files and check the name on it matches whoever is signing.

Placid Refining Company LLC, a liquid bulk terminal listed by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, sits 18.6 miles south-east of Colfax, and the Energy Information Administration places ALEXANDRIA TERMINAL CO LLC, a petroleum product terminal, 18.7 miles out in the same direction. Tank tractors that worked those sites can be picked up at a terminal lot or back home in Colfax; tell us which.

Farther along that south-east line, the North American Rail Network from the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics puts the ALEXANDRIA rail yard 23.1 miles away, and Central Louisiana Regional port lies 24.3 miles off on the Bureau of Transportation Statistics list. A day cab used for drayage between the yard, the port and Colfax warehouses fits what we buy; photos of the fifth wheel and frame help us see it properly.

England Authority, 15.9 miles south-east, and NG Camp Beauregard, 20.9 miles away, are both military installations on the Bureau of Transportation Statistics list. A truck that hauled to either gate can be collected from wherever it is parked now.

Wholesale trade accounts for 333 of the 1,303 jobs located in Colfax, a 25.6 percent share, in the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts for 2023. Box trucks and straight trucks that stocked those wholesale shelves fit what we buy, and a delivery log or the route you ran tells us how the truck was used.

If the truck belongs to a business rather than a person, the 2023 LEHD figures from the Census Bureau will not show on any paperwork we need; what matters is a company officer able to sign the title and a letter on company paper authorising the sale.

The National Bridge Inventory lists 12 bridges around Colfax, with no load posting on any of them and none below a fourteen-foot clearance. A lowboy or a tow rig headed for a Grant Parish driveway takes the direct road in rather than a detour around a posted span.

Open bridges still leave the last hundred yards to describe. Tell us about soft ground after rain, a locked gate or a trailer parked across the truck, and the right equipment comes out to your Colfax yard.

Louisiana Office of Motor Vehicles runs the OMV Colfax Office at 306 8th Street, Colfax, 71417, just 0.4 miles from the centre of town, according to the agency’s own office list. A Colfax seller who has misplaced the title can apply for the replacement at that Louisiana Office of Motor Vehicles counter in town.

Bring the registration and your driver’s licence when you visit. If the title shows a lender, ask the Louisiana Office of Motor Vehicles staff on 8th Street what lien release they need on file before the duplicate prints.

• My tractor is sitting by the Alexandria rail yard, not in Colfax - is that a problem?Trucks sitting at sites south-east of Colfax, such as the ALEXANDRIA rail yard 23.1 miles away on the North American Rail Network, are collected where they are parked.
• Can you pick up a farm truck from Grant Parish?Grant Parish counts 200 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, and we collect grain, cattle and cotton trucks straight from the farm.