Monroe railheads
Two Monroe rail yards within five miles of Lakeshore
Monroe Yard, listed as a KCS yard on the North American Rail Network kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, lies 3.8 miles south-west of Lakeshore. If your tractor has shuttled freight to and from that yard, tell us so when you first get in touch, and give us the VIN and the odometer reading so we can look the truck up before we call back.
Monroe Station is the second yard on that North American Rail Network map, 4.8 miles west of town. A day cab used for short runs between the two Monroe yards is often parked at a home or a shop here in Lakeshore, so send us that street address and say whether a tow truck can reach it without moving other equipment first.
Petroleum and liquid bulk terminals south-west of town
A petroleum product terminal named Monroe shows up 9.7 miles south-west of Lakeshore in Energy Information Administration listings. Tank trucks and tractors that pull fuel trailers out of a site like that are trucks we purchase; photograph the cab, the frame and the tank or fifth wheel, and keep any terminal inspection sheets with the title.
About 9.9 miles out in the same direction, Monroe Terminal Company LLC appears in the Bureau of Transportation Statistics list as a liquid bulk terminal. If your rig has loaded there, write down which trailers it pulled and who registered it. The name on the registration should match the name on the title you sign over.
Wheelis Pit, a sand and gravel operation 12.9 miles south-west, is on file with the Mine Safety and Health Administration. Dump trucks and end-dump tractors that haul out of a pit tend to sit at the pit or at the owner’s yard between jobs, so tell us which of those two places we would be collecting from.
To the north-east, Perryville Aggregates Plant #2 is another sand and gravel site in the Mine Safety and Health Administration records, 17.9 miles from town. A truck that has hauled aggregate there can be picked up where it stands; send photos of the bed, the hoist and the tires along with the paperwork you hold.
Lakeshore payrolls
For 2023, the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts place 364 jobs in Lakeshore, and 60 of them, a 16.5 percent share, sit in construction. Contractors here run dump trucks, flatbeds and service bodies, and any of those can be sold to us whether it belongs to one owner or a small crew.
If the truck is titled to a business rather than a person, have a signed authorization from whoever can sign for that company. Ask for it now, so the person who signs the title is the one the state’s title agency expects.
Lakeshore grain trucks between parish harvests
Corn tops the Ouachita Parish crop list ahead of soybeans and cotton, across 428 farms tallied by USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture. Grain trucks and tractors that haul harvest from those fields often sit in a barn or a field lot out of season, which is a fine place for us to collect one.
Give us the field or farm address rather than the nearest town, and mention any gate code or soft ground near the barn. Records of when the truck was last serviced help us describe it accurately, and a farm truck with no records can still be sold.
If it is missing, the state’s title agency issues a replacement; start that request before you send us photos, and the two can arrive together.
Next, gather the current registration, any inspection or service records, and clear pictures of each side of the cab plus the dashboard. Last, name the yard, pit, farm or driveway around Lakeshore where we collect the truck.
The questions we get asked in Lakeshore
- Is a tractor that ran between the KCS yard and Monroe Station something you buy?Monroe Yard sits 3.8 miles south-west of Lakeshore on the North American Rail Network, and tractors that served it are trucks we purchase. A VIN, an odometer reading and a few photos of the tractor are enough for us to begin.
- Will you collect a dump truck from a gravel pit?Wheelis Pit, 12.9 miles south-west and listed by the Mine Safety and Health Administration, is the kind of site we collect from. Say whether the dump truck is parked at Wheelis or back at your own yard.
- My grain truck has sat in a Ouachita Parish barn since harvest. Do you take trucks like that?Ouachita Parish has 428 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, and trucks parked on them between harvests are ones we collect. Give us the farm address and any gate details.