Stone, sand and mineral sites on either side of town
The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists the Pacific Plant, an industrial-mineral mine, 4.4 miles west of Eureka, and the Antire Quarry (CS-72), a crushed-stone operation, 4.7 miles east. A dump truck or aggregate tractor that loads at either one is usually parked within a few miles of town, so give us the yard address and the name of whoever holds the keys.
Farther out, House Springs Quarry (CS-73) is 8.7 miles south-east and the Quikrete mineral processing plant is 9.7 miles east, both on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s rolls. If the truck stays on a quarry lot between shifts, tell us whether we need a gate code or an escort, and we will arrange the collection with the site rather than ask you to move it.
Two sand and gravel operations, Shead at 12.8 miles and the Hageman Plant at 13.4 miles, both east of town, also appear in the Mine Safety and Health Administration register. Photos of the bed, the hoist and the tag axle alongside the cab let us see the same truck you describe on the phone.
FMCSA’s carrier census shows 17 active carriers based in Eureka, and 12 of them operate as private fleets hauling their own goods rather than freight for hire. If your truck belongs to a contractor or a manufacturer and not a trucking company, the business that holds the title is the seller, so have someone with signing authority ready.
Of those 17 carriers, the federal census counts 10 that stay inside Missouri and 7 that cross state lines. A truck that never left the state may carry Missouri plates only, while an interstate unit may also carry apportioned registration paperwork; bring whichever applies to yours.
General freight is listed by 11 local carriers in the FMCSA filings, machinery and large objects by 6, and dry bulk commodities and metal sheets, coils and rolls by 3 each. Lowboys, flatbeds and pneumatic tankers come out of that mix, and naming the trailer type when you contact us tells us what to send for collection.
Short hauls and fleet size
In FMCSA’s census, Eureka carriers report 70 drivers who stay inside 100 miles of home and 49 who range past that line. A local truck is likely back on its home lot each night, which makes it simple for us to find; a long-haul unit may be out on a run, so tell us when it will be back in St. Louis County.
Six carriers here report mileage to FMCSA, and their median is 32,600 miles per truck in a year. Keep the odometer reading and the VIN to hand when you call; with those two figures we can look up the truck before anything else is asked.
FMCSA’s carrier census shows one local fleet with 25 power units and 25 drivers, another with 14 units and 25 drivers, and a third with 13 units and 15 drivers. Selling several trucks from one yard is a single conversation; send a list of units with their VINs and where each one is parked.
New registrations add to the count each year: the FMCSA census shows 3 carriers starting up in Eureka in 2025 and 2 in 2024. If you are a newer operator selling your first truck, the title and your USDOT number are the two things to have ready.
Builders, plants and soybean fields
Eureka counted 5,969 jobs in 2023 on the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts, with 738 in construction and 759 in manufacturing. Plant trucks and site trucks both come from that work, and service records from a shop or a fleet manager help us understand what the truck has done.
There are 51 construction businesses with a payroll here, a tally the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns keeps. A contractor selling a dump truck or a flatbed can usually leave it at the job yard; tell us the access hours and we plan around them.
Soybeans lead, then corn and wheat, across the 222 farms that USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture finds in the county around Eureka. A grain truck kept in a shed outside town is still a commercial truck we buy, so give us directions to the farm along with photos.
Osage Street, posted spans and the rail yard
The Missouri Department of Revenue runs a license office at 730 Osage in Pacific, 5.8 miles from Eureka, and that is where a lost Missouri title can be replaced. Get that replacement moving early; a Eureka sale closes only once the title is in hand.
Of the 17 bridges the National Bridge Inventory records in and around Eureka, 3 carry posted load limits and none is under 14 feet of clearance. Tell us if the truck sits on a road behind one of the posted bridges, so the carrier we send can choose the right route in.
Rail and bulk freight sit just east: the North American Rail Network shows a rail yard 10.2 miles from town, and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics lists Burlington Junction, a liquid bulk terminal, 11.1 miles out. A tractor that has worked those sites can be collected right where it is parked.
The questions we get asked in Eureka
- Our tandem dump sits on the Antire lot between loads; is that where you pick it up?Antire Quarry is 4.7 miles east of town on the Mine Safety and Health Administration list, and we collect from the quarry lot itself. Let us know who on site can let our driver in.
- I misplaced the title to a truck I keep in Eureka; which office replaces it?The closest Missouri Department of Revenue license office is at 730 Osage in Pacific, 5.8 miles away. Apply for the duplicate there and let us know it is in progress when you get in touch.
- I run a private fleet for my own company. Can I still sell a truck to you?FMCSA’s carrier census lists 12 private fleets among the 17 carriers based in Eureka, and trucks from fleets like those are part of what we buy. The company named on the title signs the sale.
- Do you buy grain trucks from farms outside Eureka?Grain from 222 county farms, counted in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture as mostly soybeans, corn and wheat, moves on trucks, and one from one of them is a truck we buy. Send photos and the farm address.