FMCSA’s carrier census shows 120 active carriers in Pelican Rapids, and general freight leads the cargo list with 43 of them. If your tractor has pulled dry vans or flatbeds out of town, send us the VIN, a photo of each side of the cab and a shot of the registration card, and we can start from there.
Grain, feed and hay come next on that same federal census at 32 carriers, with machinery and large objects at 23 and logs, poles, beams and lumber at 19. A straight truck with a grain box, a log truck with its loader or a tractor that has pulled a lowboy all fit what we collect; tell us what body or trailer goes with the unit so the description matches what we find on site.
New registrations keep arriving in the federal records too: six carriers here first registered with FMCSA in 2025 and four in 2024. If you started your outfit recently and are now selling a truck you bought for it, keep the purchase paperwork and the title together so the transfer goes in one step.
Mostly local routes and farm-owned trucks
Of those 120 carriers, the census lists 92 as intrastate only and 28 as interstate, while 79 run private fleets that haul their own goods rather than freight for hire. A truck owned by a farm, a feed mill or a contractor is often parked right where it works, so give us the yard or field address and the name of whoever can let us in.
Driver counts filed with FMCSA put 360 drivers inside a hundred-mile radius of their base and 92 beyond it. For a seller that usually means the truck comes home every night, so we arrange collection at your shop, your farmstead or a lot in town rather than at a distant terminal.
Across 25 carriers that reported annual mileage to the federal carrier census, the median comes to 10,000 miles per truck. Have the current odometer reading ready when you contact us, along with any service records, so the photos and the logbook tell the same story.
Small outfits with a few larger yards
If you are selling several units from a yard like that, list each VIN and where each truck is parked; we can collect them together or one at a time.
The same FMCSA inspection records put 64 percent of that group at ten or more model years old.
Pelican Rapids is ringed by farmland: Otter Tail County held 2,497 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, which lists corn, soybeans and milk as its leading products. Grain trucks, bulk feed units and milk haulers from these operations often sit at the farm between seasons, and we can collect from a machine shed or a field approach if you tell us how to reach it.
Before you contact us, check whose name is on the title; if it is someone else’s, have them ready to sign, or have the paperwork that shows you can sign for the farm.
In 2023 the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts recorded 1,175 jobs in Pelican Rapids, and manufacturing accounted for 207 of them, or 17.6 percent. Box trucks and tractors that serve a plant are often parked at the plant gate; tell us whether we need a visitor pass or an escort to reach yours.
Dump trucks, flatbeds and service bodies from contractors here can be collected at a job site or at the contractor’s yard, so long as the truck can be reached and someone with the keys can meet us.
The nearest office to Pelican Rapids that the Minnesota Department of Public Safety, Driver and Vehicle Services (DVS) lists is the Fergus Falls deputy registrar office at 545 W Fir Ave, Fergus Falls, 56537, about 18.9 miles away.
If the title is lost or still shows a lender’s name, start at that Fergus Falls office before you arrange collection. Bring your ID and the registration, plus a lien release if a loan was ever recorded on the truck, and ask for a duplicate title in your name.