Tankers loading at the racks north-west and south of Leonville
Leonville’s closest fuel rack on the Energy Information Administration’s list is the Opelousas petroleum product terminal, 9.5 miles away to the north-west. If your tanker or fuel truck has loaded there, tell us the trailer type and the products it carried, and send pictures of the tank, the valves and the cab so we can see the whole rig.
Heading south instead, Anse La Butte Terminal sits 14 miles from town on the same Energy Information Administration list. A tractor that shuttled between that terminal and the Opelousas rack can stay where it is parked; give us the street address and say whether a flatbed or a tow rig can pull up beside it.
Hazmat haulers from this corner of the parish usually carry tank inspection reports and placard records. Keep those in the cab with the title; they show what the truck has hauled without guesswork on either side.
Rice and soybeans
Farm trucks on the fields around Leonville
Soybeans, rice and cattle lead the 1,087 farms that USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts in St. Landry Parish. Grain trucks, hopper trailers and livestock haulers are the working equipment of that list, and we buy each of them from owners in and around Leonville.
A grain truck that only comes out at harvest often sits in a shed or at the edge of a field the rest of the year. Tell us which road the farm is on and whether the gate is locked, and we will plan the collection around the yard instead of asking you to move the truck.
For a cattle pot or a stock trailer, photos of the floor, the gates and the coupler help us describe it correctly. Add the tractor’s VIN and a shot of the odometer, and we have what we need to start.
Pit and parish builders
Dump trucks, the B & D Sand Pit and parish builders
The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists B & D Sand Pit 19.4 miles south-east of Leonville as a sand and gravel operation. Tandem dump trucks and end dumps that hauled out of a pit like that are welcome here, whether they belong to one owner-operator or sit in a small yard.
Eighteen construction establishments appear for this area in County Business Patterns from the Census Bureau. If your flatbed, roll-off or dump body worked on their jobs, send photos of the body and the hoist along with the cab, and say whether the truck is still on a site or back at your place.
A truck parked at an active job site needs a gate code or a contact name on the day we come. Write that down when you first reach us so nobody waits at a closed fence.
Drayage south of town
Lafayette’s rail yard and the drayage around it
South of town, the Lafayette rail yard appears on the North American Rail Network kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, 16.2 miles out by its measure. Day cabs that pulled loads to and from that yard are part of what we purchase.
If your tractor did that work, send shots of the fifth wheel, the tires and the frame rails. Pair them with the VIN plate and a cab picture and we can describe the truck back to you accurately before anything is arranged.
Creswell Extension
The Creswell Extension office for a lost Louisiana title
According to the Louisiana Office of Motor Vehicles, its OMV Opelousas Office stands at 1638 Creswell Extension, # 3, Opelousas, 70570, some 6.3 miles from Leonville. It is the office where a missing certificate of title gets replaced.
Bring your driver’s license and the registration when you go, and if a bank once held a lien on the truck, carry the lien release too. Start the replacement before you contact us if you can, and tell us it is in progress if you cannot; a title still on order is something we can work around.
When the title is in hand, check that the VIN printed on it matches the plate on the door jamb. A mismatch caught in Opelousas is far easier to sort out than one found on collection day.
What a Leonville owner sends us first
Start with the VIN, the make and model, and the address where the truck stands, whether that is a farm lane outside Leonville, a yard near Opelousas or a lot down toward Lafayette. Four photos come next: front, both sides and the cab interior.
Then add what the truck did: fuel runs from the terminals, harvest hauling across the parish, aggregate out of the sand pit, or rail drayage. That one line shapes the rest of our questions, and the title, registration and any service records finish the file.
The questions we get asked in Leonville
- My tanker hauls from the Opelousas rack. Can Big Ugly Truck take it off my hands?The Opelousas petroleum product terminal, 9.5 miles north-west of Leonville on the Energy Information Administration’s list, is the kind of rack we expect tankers here to serve, and we buy those tankers and the tractors that pull them. Send the tank type and photos of the tank and cab.
- My title went missing; is there an OMV counter on Creswell Extension that can reissue it?The Louisiana Office of Motor Vehicles runs its OMV Opelousas Office at 1638 Creswell Extension, # 3, Opelousas, 70570, about 6.3 miles from town. Bring your license and registration; a lien release too if a lender was ever on the title.
- Can you pick up a rice or soybean truck parked out on the farm near Leonville?Farm trucks are common across St. Landry Parish, where USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 1,087 farms led by soybeans, rice and cattle. Give us the road, the gate details and where on the property the truck is parked, and we come to it.
- My dump truck hauls out of B & D Sand Pit; would you take it?B & D Sand Pit, 19.4 miles south-east of Leonville according to the Mine Safety and Health Administration, is one of the operations those trucks serve, and dump trucks are on our list. Send pictures of the body, the hoist and the cab with the VIN.