Down the water
The petroleum dock south of Lake Arthur
The Energy Information Administration places MARINE 193 DOCK, a petroleum product terminal, 7.2 miles south of Lake Arthur. A tank truck or fuel tractor that loads there and spends its nights back in town is one we can collect from a driveway in town or from a yard near the dock itself, whichever is easier for you.
If the rig is still parked close to that terminal, tell us whose ground it stands on and who holds the key to the gate. Photos of the tank, the cab and the VIN plate, taken where the truck now stands, let us plan the trip down that road before anyone sets out.
Rice and pasture
Rice, cattle and soybean hauling around Lake Arthur
Around Lake Arthur the farm ground is wide: USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture records 622 farms across Jefferson Davis Parish, with rice first, then cattle and soybeans. A bulk grain truck that carries rice off the fields, or a tractor that pulls a cattle pot to the sale barn, fits what we buy.
Farm trucks around here often sit idle between harvests behind a shed or under a pole barn. Give us the road and the landmark nearest the barn, and write down whether a hopper trailer or a livestock trailer goes with the tractor, so the listing we work from matches what is out there.
Small-town payroll
Builders and the jobs counted in town
Workplaces in Lake Arthur held 296 jobs during 2023, going by the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts. With a workforce that size, a dump truck, a flatbed or a service body truck here usually belongs to a single owner or a family firm, so the person who answers the phone is often the person whose name is on the title.
Just 5 construction establishments appear for the area in the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns, so a builder’s dump truck here is usually one of a handful. If your truck carried gravel or lumber to their jobs, put the registration with the title and note the business name it was registered under, plus whoever can sign for that business.
Jennings OMV
Duplicate papers from the Jennings OMV counter
Duplicate titles in this state come from the Louisiana Office of Motor Vehicles, which runs OMV offices across the parishes. The nearest is the OMV Jennings Office at 210 S State Street, Jennings, 70546, which the Louisiana Office of Motor Vehicles places 9.8 miles from Lake Arthur.
Request the replacement there before we arrange collection, and tell us on the first call that it is pending. While you wait, gather the registration card, any loan release from the bank and a photo of the odometer. Then the title is the one paper still to come when the pickup is booked.
VIN, year, parking spot
Three answers that open a Lake Arthur sale
Start with the VIN, the make and the model year, then the street or farm road where the truck is parked in or near Lake Arthur. Those three answers decide every other question we ask.
Add clear pictures of each side, the cab interior and the plate on the door jamb. A truck kept on a rice farm, in a yard in town or near the dock to the south can stay right where it is; we come to it.
The questions we get asked in Lake Arthur
- My tanker is parked by the fuel dock south of Lake Arthur. Must a tanker parked at the dock be driven back to Lake Arthur before pickup?MARINE 193 DOCK lies 7.2 miles south of Lake Arthur on the Energy Information Administration’s list of petroleum product terminals, and a truck parked near it is collected there. Tell us the terminal-side spot and name the person who unlocks it.
- Who issues a duplicate title for a rig kept around Lake Arthur and the rice farms?The OMV Jennings Office at 210 S State Street, Jennings, 70546, is 9.8 miles away according to the Louisiana Office of Motor Vehicles, and it handles duplicate titles. File for the copy at that State Street counter and let us know the date you applied.
- Do you take a grain truck that only works the rice harvest?Rice leads the crops on Jefferson Davis Parish’s 622 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, and a seasonal grain truck from one of them is a truck we buy. Tell us which barn or field it waits at between harvests.