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

Of the 83 active carriers that FMCSA’s carrier census lists for Arlington, 32 declare grain, feed and hay as cargo and 23 declare farm supplies. If your truck is a grain hopper tractor, a straight truck with a box for seed and feed, or a tender that shuttles between bins and fields, it fits what this town runs, and we buy those trucks from owners directly.

Thirty Arlington carriers also report general freight on the same federal census, and 18 report machinery and large objects. A tractor that has pulled a lowboy for farm equipment one month and a dry van the next is common here; tell us which trailers it has hooked to and send a photo of the fifth wheel along with the cab and the VIN plate.

Around Arlington, Sibley County held 860 farms according to USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, with corn, soybeans and hogs named as its leading products. Livestock trailers, grain trucks and feed bodies all serve that mix, so if yours has worked a hog barn route or a harvest run, say which when you reach us.

Farm trucks out here often sit in a machine shed or at the edge of a yard between seasons. We collect from the farm itself, so give us the road address, a note on whether the gate or lane takes a tractor-trailer, and the name of whoever will be there to hand over the keys.

The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists Henderson Pit 096, a sand and gravel operation 9.4 miles south-east of Arlington, and CARVER PIT, another sand and gravel site 10.3 miles to the north-east. Dump trucks and end-dump tractors that load at pits like these are trucks we take on.

Ten construction establishments appear for Arlington in the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns, and those firms keep tandems and tri-axles busy hauling aggregate for driveways, roads and building pads. If your dump truck belongs to a contractor here, have the box measurements and a photo of the hoist ready alongside the title.

Seventy-four of Arlington’s carriers are intrastate operators and nine run interstate, per FMCSA’s carrier census, while 57 are private fleets hauling their own goods. A truck that has never crossed a state line still carries its Minnesota registration and title; keep both together so the handover is simple.

Drivers tell a similar story: the federal carrier census counts 138 drivers for Arlington carriers working within a hundred-mile radius and 96 who go further. Seventeen carriers reported annual mileage to FMCSA, with a median of 15,000 miles per truck; if yours has mostly shuttled between nearby farms, pits and elevators, say so.

Arlington’s biggest fleet on FMCSA’s census runs 26 power units with 30 drivers, the next has 22 power units and five drivers, and a third holds ten units with 15 drivers. If you manage several trucks and want to sell more than one, send a list with each VIN and where each unit is parked, and we will arrange collection for the group.

New registrations are steady but small: FMCSA’s records show four carriers added in Arlington during 2024 and one in 2025. Whether you are winding down a farm operation or trimming one truck from a growing fleet, the steps are the same, starting with the title in the name of the person or business selling.

Titles in this state go through deputy registrar offices. The Minnesota Department of Public Safety, Driver and Vehicle Services (DVS) lists its Gaylord office at 400 Court Ave, Gaylord, 55334, about 8 miles from Arlington, and that is where to go if your title is lost or needs a duplicate before a sale.

Bring your driver’s license and the truck’s VIN to Gaylord, plus the lender’s lien release if the truck was once financed. Once the title is in hand with your name on it, sign where DVS asks the seller to sign and keep the registration with it for pickup day.

The Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts place 419 jobs inside Arlington for 2023, spread across the town’s shops, plants and offices.

Plenty of those employers keep a truck or two of their own, from feed delivery rigs to a contractor’s dump truck, and we buy from Arlington businesses as readily as from its farms.

If your business truck is titled to a company rather than to you, the person signing the title must be authorized to sign for that company. Have that settled before we come, and keep the keys, the title and the registration in one envelope in the cab.

• Do you buy grain trucks and feed trucks from Arlington farms?Grain, feed and hay is the most common cargo among Arlington’s 83 active carriers on FMCSA’s carrier census, and those are trucks we buy. Tell us the body type and send photos of the cab, frame and box.
• Where near Arlington can I get a lost truck title replaced?Gaylord’s deputy registrar office at 400 Court Ave, Gaylord, 55334, about 8 miles from Arlington, handles titles for the Minnesota Department of Public Safety, Driver and Vehicle Services (DVS); request the duplicate there and have it in hand on collection day.
• Can you collect a dump truck that works the gravel pits?Henderson Pit 096 and CARVER PIT, both sand and gravel operations listed by the Mine Safety and Health Administration, sit about ten miles from Arlington, and we collect dump trucks from the pit, the contractor’s yard or your farm.
• Is a truck that has only worked Minnesota roads still one you take?Seventy-four of Arlington’s carriers on FMCSA’s carrier census operate intrastate only, so a truck that stays in Minnesota is the norm here; bring its Minnesota title, signed by the owner named on it.