Parish cropland
Hopper and grain trucks from Simmesport farms
Around Simmesport, Avoyelles Parish counted 868 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, with soybeans, corn and rice named as its leading crops. A grain truck, a dump body or a tractor that pulls hopper trailers through harvest is the kind of equipment we buy from owners in this part of the parish.
If the truck is parked at a farm shop or along a field road outside Simmesport, it can stay there. Give us the farm’s address, a gate code or a contact who can let us in, and a note on whether the ground near it is soft after rain, and we plan the collection around that spot.
Selling one truck from a small Avoyelles Parish town
LODES, the LEHD job counts, records 324 positions held at Simmesport workplaces for 2023. Whether your truck is the only one you own or one of a few, you sell it to us yourself, with nobody in between.
Owner-operators and family farms here can sell a single straight truck or one tractor with no fleet behind it. Tell us the make, model, model year and VIN, and send clear photos of the cab, the frame, the tires and the body or fifth wheel so we see the truck as it stands.
Louisiana titles come from the Louisiana Office of Motor Vehicles, and the closest of its OMV offices to Simmesport is Avoyelles Tag and Title, LLC, at 458 Acton Road, Suite C, Marksville, 71351, about 17.8 miles away by the Louisiana Office of Motor Vehicles’ own office list. A duplicate title for a truck registered in this parish is handled there.
Search the truck’s glovebox, the farm office files and any old loan papers for the original title first; it may already be in Simmesport. If a lender’s lien is still shown on it, bring the release letter with the title, and keep the current registration with both.
The pickup folder
What to gather before we collect the truck
Have the signed title, the registration card, and any service or inspection records you have kept on the truck in one folder. Records from a harvest season show where the truck has worked, and if there are none, telling us what it hauled around Simmesport answers the same question.
Keys, a spare set if one exists, and any manuals for a dump body or hydraulics belong with the truck on the day. If someone other than you will meet us at a field in Avoyelles Parish, put their name and phone number in your first message.
Off the field
Grain season trucks and the farm calendar
USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture lists soybeans first, then corn, then rice across the parish that includes Simmesport. A truck that sits in a barn or shed between harvests on one of the parish’s 868 farms, as counted in that same USDA census, is one we can collect where it stands.
Tell us when the truck is free to go. If it is still needed through the soybean or rice harvest, say so in the first message, and we arrange collection for a date that suits the work on your farm.
The questions we get asked in Simmesport
- The truck is parked at a rice or soybean farm near Simmesport. Can it stay on that farm for the collection?Simmesport’s parish has 868 farms on the USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture roll, and we collect from the farm where your truck is parked. Give us the farm road, the shed or field it sits in, and who will unlock it.
- Which OMV office issues a duplicate title closest to Simmesport?Avoyelles Tag and Title, LLC, at 458 Acton Road, Suite C, Marksville, is an office of the Louisiana Office of Motor Vehicles about 17.8 miles from Simmesport, and it handles duplicate titles for the parish.
- Simmesport is a small town and I have a single truck. Will you collect just that one?Simmesport counted 324 jobs in 2023 in the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts, and a single truck from any one of those workplaces or farms is a sale we handle. Send the VIN, the model year and photos of the cab and frame to start.