Sell your semi truck for cash in Oil City the easy and convenient way

FMCSA’s carrier census lists 17 active carriers based in Oil City, and 13 of them mark oilfield equipment as a cargo they haul. That points to winch trucks, heavy tractors and lowboy setups parked at a yard or a lease site rather than on a city street. Tell us which of those your truck is, and give us the spot where it sits, so the pickup is planned for that ground.

Machinery and large objects show up on 8 of those carrier filings, general freight on 5 and motor vehicles on 3, according to the same federal census. A tractor that has pulled heavy loads in Oil City often carries extra equipment such as a headache rack, a wet kit or a winch. List what is bolted on when you send photos, so we know the whole unit before we arrive.

Of the town’s carriers, 13 run as private fleets moving their own goods, 10 cross state lines and 7 stay inside Louisiana, per FMCSA registration records. A truck owned by a business rather than a for-hire outfit is usually titled to that company, so have the officer or owner who signs for it named before we talk.

Drivers based here split 27 within a 100-mile radius and 19 beyond it on FMCSA’s census. Among the seven carriers that report mileage to FMCSA, the median is 8,064 miles a truck in a year. Write the odometer reading down along with the VIN; those two figures answer most of our early questions about a unit that stays near home.

The largest Oil City fleet on the FMCSA census lists 20 power units and 10 drivers, the next 9 units and 4 drivers, and a third 4 units with 3 drivers. If you are clearing out several trucks from one yard, send a list of VINs together and we will arrange the collection as one job.

The Mine Safety and Health Administration records Lone Star Sand, a sand and gravel operation, about 8.3 miles east of Oil City, and the Cedar Bluff industrial-mineral mine roughly 12.3 miles in the same direction. Dump trucks and end-dump tractors that work those pits may be parked at the site itself; tell us the gate or the pit entrance and whether a lowboy can reach it.

Further out, Hat Creek, another sand and gravel operation on the MSHA list, lies about 16.9 miles south-east. If your truck sits at a quarry, a recent photo of the cab, frame and tires taken where it is parked saves a second visit.

Rail yards named DERAMUS and HARRIET STREET sit about 16.6 and 20.5 miles south-east of Oil City on the North American Rail Network kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Day cabs that shuttle freight to those yards often finish the shift near Shreveport, so say which side of the parish your truck is on.

About 22 miles south-east, the Energy Information Administration lists the Shreveport RP truck rack terminal for petroleum products, and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics places a liquid bulk terminal at the same distance. Tank trucks loading at those racks are bought too; bring any tank test or inspection papers you hold, since they show the history photos cannot.

An Oil City owner travels about 8.7 miles to reach the OMV Vivian Office, which the Louisiana Office of Motor Vehicles operates at 102 E Georgia, A, Vivian, 71082. That OMV office is where an Oil City owner replaces a missing title before a sale.

Have the title in the name on the registration, with any lien released in writing. If a bank still holds the paper, tell us the lender’s name early; the Louisiana Office of Motor Vehicles sets the steps for clearing it, and we work around that order.

The Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts for 2023 put 432 jobs in Oil City, with 102 in manufacturing and 101 in mining, quarrying and oil and gas extraction, close to a quarter each. Trucks serving both kinds of employer run here, from flatbeds hauling plant parts to service rigs headed for the wellhead.

Caddo Parish had 589 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, led by cotton, corn and cattle. Grain trucks and livestock haulers kept on a farm outside Oil City can be collected right at the barn; give us the road name and a gate code if there is one.

Around Oil City, the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns count 3 construction establishments. A dump truck or flatbed from a small contractor counts as much as a fleet tractor; send the VIN, the mileage and a few photos to start.

• My truck is parked on an oil lease outside Oil City; will you pick it up on the lease?Oilfield equipment is the leading cargo for Oil City carriers on FMCSA’s census, so lease sites are a common pickup spot here. Tell us the road, the site entrance and how a trailer gets in.
• My tractor’s title went missing; is there an OMV counter close to Oil City?The OMV Vivian Office of the Louisiana Office of Motor Vehicles, at 102 E Georgia, A, Vivian, is about 8.7 miles from town and handles title replacement.
• Will you take a dump truck that works Lone Star Sand or Cedar Bluff?Lone Star Sand and Cedar Bluff, both within about 12.3 miles east on the Mine Safety and Health Administration list, keep dump trucks at work, and those are trucks we purchase. Send the VIN and photos taken at the pit.
• My Oil City company hauls its own equipment with a handful of tractors; can they go together in one sale?Thirteen of the town’s carriers on FMCSA’s census are private fleets, and multi-truck sales are welcome. Send one list of VINs and the yard address and we will plan a single collection.