Riverside tanks
Tank terminals a short walk from Garyville
MPLX, a liquid bulk terminal on the Bureau of Transportation Statistics list, stands just 0.2 miles south-west of Garyville, close enough that a tanker parked in town is practically at its gate. If your tractor and tank trailer shuttled product out of MPLX, tell us whether you are selling the pair or the tractor alone, and send the trailer’s plate along with the tractor’s VIN.
On the Energy Information Administration’s register of petroleum product terminals, Mt Airy appears 0.9 miles south-west and a second site, listed under the name Garyville, about a mile north-east. A truck that loaded at either of them is usually parked on River Road or in a yard on the edge of town, so give us the street address and the name of whoever holds the keys.
Marathon Dock, 2.6 miles east, is another liquid bulk terminal that the Bureau of Transportation Statistics counts. Tanker drivers who worked that dock should gather the registration, any tank test certificates and the most recent annual inspection sheet before we call; for a bulk hauler, those are the papers we ask about first.
Sidings east of town
Rail sidings and the Port of South Louisiana
Some 3.6 miles east of Garyville, the North American Rail Network maintained by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics marks a rail yard named PT OF SOUTH LOUISIANA. A day cab that drayed loads between those sidings and the riverfront can be collected right where it sits; just tell us whether it is inside a fenced yard and who will open the gate.
Farther east, 8.2 miles from town, the Port of South Louisiana is listed by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics as a port. If your tractor pulled chassis or flatbeds to the docks there and now sits idle, photograph both sides of the cab, the fifth wheel and the tires, then send the pictures with the VIN so we can read the truck before we talk.
Gramercy Operation and the sand pit east of town
The Mine Safety and Health Administration records the Gramercy Operation, a mineral processing plant, 1.5 miles west of Garyville. Dump trucks and tractor-trailers that hauled to or from that plant often stay parked near the river road, and we can pick one up from a contractor’s lot as easily as from your driveway.
Beverly Sand Pit #2, a sand and gravel operation, lies 14.7 miles east on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s register. Owners of a tri-axle dump or end-dump that worked the pit should have the title, current registration and any service log ready, plus a note of the body length so we know which equipment to bring.
Plant town
Garyville’s workforce leans on its plants
Three out of every four jobs counted in Garyville in 2023 sat in manufacturing, a 75 percent share in the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts. Service trucks, flatbeds and box trucks are all trucks we will look at beside the tankers; send the make, model and VIN to start.
Transportation and warehousing held a 6.6 percent share of local work in the same LEHD figures for 2023. If you drove for one of those outfits and now own the truck outright, the title in your name is what matters most, so check that the name on it matches your license before you reach out.
Reserve OMV
Duplicate papers from the office in Reserve
The Louisiana Office of Motor Vehicles runs its OMV offices across the state, and the closest one to Garyville is the OMV Reserve Office at 4034 W Airline Highway, Reserve, 70084, about 3.8 miles down the road. If the title for your truck has gone missing, that office is where a Garyville owner applies for a duplicate.
Bring your driver’s license, the VIN and the current registration to the Reserve counter, and if a lender once held the truck, a lien release as well. Once the Louisiana Office of Motor Vehicles issues the replacement, send us a photo of the front and back of the new title and we can move ahead.
Farm trucks around Garyville and the river parishes
Farmland outside Garyville belongs to a parish where USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture found 20 farms, the parish being St. John the Baptist. A grain truck, a flatbed or a farm tractor-trailer from one of those operations is something we buy, and a barn or field edge is a fine place for us to collect it.
Farm trucks often carry farm plates instead of commercial ones, so tell us which plate is on yours and whether the title is in your own name or the farm’s. Those two answers decide which papers we need from you.
The questions we get asked in Garyville
- My tanker sits beside the MPLX terminal at the south-west edge of Garyville, so will you collect it from that lot?MPLX is 0.2 miles south-west of Garyville on the Bureau of Transportation Statistics terminal list, and a lot that close to town is an easy collection for us. Tell us which gate the tanker is behind and who on site holds the key.
- Which office issues a duplicate title for a Garyville truck owner?Garyville owners use the OMV Reserve Office on 4034 W Airline Highway in Reserve, run by the Louisiana Office of Motor Vehicles some 3.8 miles from town. Take your driver’s license, the truck’s VIN and a lien release if a lender ever held the title.
- My dump truck hauled around the Gramercy Operation west of Garyville, so would you buy it?Gramercy Operation, the mineral processing plant 1.5 miles west on the Mine Safety and Health Administration register, sits close to town, and dump trucks are among the trucks we buy. Photograph the dump body, the frame rails and the cab, then send those with the VIN and a picture of the title.