Bayou fuel stops
FOURCHON 16 and the Port Fourchon tank farm terminal
The Energy Information Administration lists a petroleum product terminal called FOURCHON 16 about 5.6 miles south-east of Galliano. A tractor or tank truck that runs out to that terminal can stay parked near it while you sell; send us the address of the lot and the name of whoever holds the gate key.
Twenty-two miles to the south, PORT FOURCHON appears in the same Energy Information Administration listing as a second petroleum product terminal. If your truck shuttled loads between there and Galliano, write down which of the two terminals it served and put that note with the title and registration before you call.
Docks and bulk
Hauling between Greater Lafourche Port and two Golden Meadow liquid docks
Nine miles south-east of town, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics records Greater Lafourche Port. Trucks that load and unload at the port yards are ones we collect where they sit, so give us the yard’s street location and say whether a tow truck can reach the tractor without moving other equipment first.
Two liquid bulk terminals, both named Golden Meadow, are listed by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics at 22.4 and 22.5 miles south. Tankers and the tractors that pull them out of those docks should come with clear photos of each side, the tank and the cab interior, along with any inspection sheets the terminal issued to the driver.
Larose grinding
The Larose Grinding Plant to the north-west
In the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s register, the Larose Grinding Plant is a mineral processing plant 9.2 miles north-west of Galliano. Dump trucks and flatbeds that haul to a plant like that are on our list; tell us the body type and the axle setup when you first get in touch.
Keep the service log from any plant run together with the title; a written record of where the truck hauled answers questions before we ask them. A seller without paperwork from the Larose site can still describe the hauling in a few lines, and that serves just as well.
Jobs held by people working in Galliano
Transportation and warehousing filled 2,836 of Galliano’s 4,323 jobs in 2023, or 65.6 percent, by the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts for the town. Plenty of sellers here are drivers or owner-operators, so have the registration in the name shown on the title and the VIN written down before we talk.
That same LEHD release for 2023 counts 175 construction jobs and 85 in mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction. Construction outfits in Lafourche Parish numbered 10 establishments in the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns, and a dump truck or service body from one of them can be photographed in the yard where it is kept.
Galliano inspection stops
Galliano trucks stopped for FMCSA inspection, by model year
A median model year of 2017 shows up across the 32 Galliano trucks that FMCSA roadside inspection records caught on Louisiana roads and elsewhere from September 2024 to August 2026. Have the model year and engine make in hand when you reach us, since those two details shape every question that comes next.
Just over a third of that Galliano group, 34.38 percent in the FMCSA inspection tally, carried a model year at least ten years back. Whatever the model year on yours, send the odometer reading, the title and a photo of the data plate on the door jamb.
Cattle, goats and hogs
Livestock trucks in Lafourche Parish
USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counted 339 farms across Lafourche Parish, with cattle, goats and hogs at the top of the list. Stock trailers’ tractors and farm straight trucks from those operations are ones we buy, and they can be picked up from the pasture gate or the barn lot.
For a farm truck registered to a family operation, check that the name on the Louisiana title matches the person signing it over. If it is titled to a parent or a farm business, have that person or an officer of the business ready to sign.
The questions we get asked in Galliano
- Our tractor sits in a yard at Greater Lafourche Port; does it need to come up the bayou to Galliano?Greater Lafourche Port, listed by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics about 9 miles south-east of Galliano, is a place we collect from directly. Give us the yard location and the contact who can let our driver in.
- Which papers go with a tank truck that loaded at FOURCHON 16 or PORT FOURCHON?The Energy Information Administration lists FOURCHON 16 at 5.6 miles and PORT FOURCHON at 22 miles from town, and for trucks working either one the title, registration and any terminal inspection sheets are what to gather. Photos of the tank and the cab round it out.
- Do you buy a dump truck that hauled for the Larose Grinding Plant?The Larose Grinding Plant, a mineral processing site 9.2 miles north-west of Galliano in Mine Safety and Health Administration records, is the kind of route a dump truck we purchase often runs. Send the VIN, the body type and photos from all four sides.
- Do you buy a 2015 tractor from Galliano?FMCSA roadside inspection records for Galliano show a median model year of 2017 and 34.38 percent of inspected trucks at ten or more years old, so a 2015 sits among the trucks working here. Send the 2015 VIN and the odometer reading together and the rest of our questions follow from those.