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The Bureau of Transportation Statistics places the Port of South Louisiana 4.1 miles south-west of LaPlace, and the North American Rail Network shows a rail yard serving the same port 5.9 miles west. If your tractor has been parked near those docks or the yard between loads, send us the street address or the gate it sits behind and the name of whoever can let us in.

Day cabs that shuttle between a river dock and a rail siding on the west side of town are trucks we collect from where they stand. Photograph the cab, the VIN plate, the frame rails and the fifth wheel, and have the Louisiana title and current registration in hand when you message us.

Two petroleum product terminals listed by the Energy Information Administration, GARYVILLE and GARYVILLE - ASPHALT, sit roughly 8.8 and 8.6 miles west of LaPlace. A tractor that has pulled tankers or asphalt trailers out of Garyville can be collected near those terminals; tell us whether the trailer stays with you or goes with the truck.

Closer in, Good Hope lies 6.5 miles south and Marathon Dock 7 miles west, both liquid bulk terminals on the Bureau of Transportation Statistics list. Keep any site access records, inspection sheets and service history from that work together in one folder and send copies with the photos.

Beverly Sand Pit #2 at 7.3 miles and Hahnville Sand Pit at 7.5 miles, both south-east of town, appear in Mine Safety and Health Administration records as sand and gravel operations. Dump trucks and tractors pulling end-dump trailers from those pits are on the list of what we purchase.

In the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts for 2023, construction accounts for 1,039 of the 7,347 jobs in LaPlace, a 14.1 percent share. Forty-eight construction establishments operate in LaPlace by the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns tally, so a dump truck or flatbed may be parked at a contractor’s yard. If your dump truck sits at a job site rather than a yard, send the site address and a gate contact.

There are 120 active carriers based in LaPlace on FMCSA’s carrier census, 50 of them authorised for interstate work and 70 running intrastate only, with 21 private fleets in the mix. Whether your authority crosses state lines or stays inside Louisiana, the paperwork we need is the same: the title, the registration and photos.

General freight is the cargo listed by 93 of those carriers, while 15 haul machinery and large objects, 14 move logs, poles, beams and lumber, and 14 carry metal sheets, coils and rolls, per the federal carrier census. Flatbed and step-deck tractors from that metal and lumber work are trucks we collect, and so are dry-van units from general freight.

FMCSA registrations show 17 new carriers starting here in 2024 and 8 in 2025. In FMCSA filings, one local fleet registers 34 power units and 34 drivers, another 12 units and 10 drivers, and a third 8 of each. Owner-operators with a single truck and fleets selling several units can both start with one message listing each VIN.

LaPlace carriers on the FMCSA census report 99 drivers working within 100 miles and 103 going beyond that radius. If your truck is out on a run when you decide to sell, tell us where it will be parked when it returns, and we will plan collection around that spot.

A typical LaPlace tractor logs 23,000 miles a year, the median across 16 carriers that report annual mileage on FMCSA’s census. Read the odometer and include that figure with the VIN in your first message, since every other question we ask follows from those two.

Between 2024-09-23 and 2026-08-26, inspectors stopped 45 trucks belonging to LaPlace carriers, and FMCSA roadside inspection records give 2017 as their median model year. A 42.2 percent share of that group of 45 carried a model year ten or more years back, per the same FMCSA roadside data.

Whatever the model year, have the title in the registered owner’s name before pickup. If the Louisiana title has gone missing, request a duplicate from the state’s title agency first, and keep any roadside inspection reports with the truck’s other papers.

• Can you collect a tractor left beside the Port of South Louisiana docks instead of in LaPlace itself?The port sits 4.1 miles south-west of town on the Bureau of Transportation Statistics list, and we collect from there. Pass along the dock-side address plus the port gate contact.
• Do you buy dump trucks that work the Hahnville and Beverly sand pits?Both pits are 7.3 to 7.5 miles south-east of LaPlace in Mine Safety and Health Administration records, and dump trucks from that work are on our list. Share photos, the VIN and the title.
• Which papers matter for a tanker tractor that loaded at the Garyville terminals?Garyville’s two Energy Information Administration-listed terminals lie about 8.6 to 8.8 miles west of LaPlace. Have the title, registration, service records and any terminal access paperwork ready, plus photos of the cab and frame.
• How do I sell a LaPlace truck whose Louisiana title went missing?LaPlace owners should ask the state’s title agency for a duplicate before collection and have it in the registered owner’s name on pickup day.