Crushed stone and granite around town
ST Francois Quarry (CS54) lies 0.3 miles east of Farmington, and Elvins Quarry & Mill is 7 miles north-west, both crushed-stone operations named by the Mine Safety and Health Administration. A tri-axle or tandem dump that hauls aggregate from either pit can be collected at the quarry gate or at your shop; tell us which, and who holds the key.
To the south-east, Butler Hill Granite (CS58) cuts dimension stone 8.7 miles out, and the Mine Safety and Health Administration places IKO Bismarck, another dimension-stone quarry, 12.8 miles west. Block and slab loads usually mean a flatbed or lowboy behind the tractor, so photograph the trailer deck and the hitch as well as the cab when you send pictures.
Mine, mill and river
Madison Mine, the cement plant and New Bourbon
Madison Mine, a metal mine, sits 17 miles south-east, and the Amrize Ste Genevieve Plant, a cement plant, is 23.5 miles north-east, according to Mine Safety and Health Administration listings. Bulk tankers and end dumps serving either site may be parked on the property itself; give us the gate contact so a pickup there is arranged with the site, not around it.
The Bureau of Transportation Statistics records the New Bourbon Port Authority 22.6 miles east, toward the Mississippi. H Sand & Gravel, which the Mine Safety and Health Administration lists 23.8 miles north, rounds out the ring. A truck left near the river or the gravel pit stays there; send us the address and we travel to it.
Freight, lumber and bulk carriers
FMCSA’s carrier census counts 89 active carriers based in Farmington: 49 haul general freight, 17 move machinery and large objects, 12 carry logs, poles, beams and lumber, and 11 pull dry bulk commodities. A log truck with its bunks and standards, a step-deck that carried equipment, or a pneumatic dry-bulk trailer all fit what we buy, alone or together with the tractor.
Of those carriers, 43 run interstate and 46 stay inside Missouri, while 32 are private fleets hauling their own goods, per the same federal census. FMCSA’s census also puts 113 drivers within 100 air miles of home and 211 working beyond that radius. If your rig ran out-of-state lanes, keep the logbook or ELD records together with the title so the route history is ready when we ask.
How old the local trucks are, and how many
Between September 2024 and August 2026, FMCSA roadside inspection records cover 120 trucks from Farmington carriers; their median model year is 2020, and 26.67 percent were ten or more model years old. Whatever model year is printed on your Missouri title, start by reading us the VIN off the door jamb and the odometer off the dash.
Among the 32 carriers reporting mileage to the federal carrier census, the median truck logged 26,057 miles a year. Fleets of 40, 32 and 18 power units head the Farmington list in that census. An owner selling several units at once can list them on one request, with each VIN and where each truck is parked.
New registrations held steady, with FMCSA’s census recording 6 new Farmington carriers in 2024 and another 6 in 2025. If you started hauling recently and are now stepping away, a younger operating authority makes no difference to the sale; the title in your name is what matters.
Plant jobs, contractors and cattle ground
Of 12,768 Farmington jobs tallied for 2023 in the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts, factories held 893, construction 294, wholesale trade 223 and transportation and warehousing 138. Sixty-seven construction firms operate locally, by the count in County Business Patterns. Contractors parting with a dump truck, a roll-off or a flatbed can have us collect it from the job yard.
St. Francois County holds 626 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, where cattle, soybeans and corn lead. A livestock hauler, a grain truck or a farm-plated straight truck sitting in a barn lot outside town is one we can load from that lot; mention the farm plates so the title paperwork matches.
Title office and the road out
Missouri Department of Revenue lists its Farmington license office at 103 Walker Drive, 1.2 miles from the city centre. If your title is lost or still lists a lienholder, that office handles the duplicate or the lien release, so start there before we schedule the collection.
None of Farmington’s 7 bridges in the National Bridge Inventory carries a posted load limit, and none sits under 14 feet. A loaded lowboy or a tall box truck can leave town without a detour, so the pickup address you give us can be the exact spot where the truck is parked.
The questions we get asked in Farmington
- Our tandem dump sits at the stone pit on the east edge of town, or out at Elvins. Will you load it on site?ST Francois Quarry (CS54) is 0.3 miles east and Elvins Quarry & Mill 7 miles north-west, per the Mine Safety and Health Administration, and we collect from either. Name the quarry foreman or scale-house contact, and our driver meets them at that gate.
- The title for my truck went missing; which Farmington office reissues it?103 Walker Drive is where the Missouri Department of Revenue runs its Farmington office, 1.2 miles from the city centre. Once the replacement title is in hand, a phone photo of its front is all we need to book the collection.
- Will you buy a Farmington log rig with its bunks and loader?Twelve Farmington carriers haul logs, poles, beams and lumber in FMCSA’s carrier census, and their trucks are ones we buy, with or without the trailer. Pictures of the loader, the bunks and the standards help us plan the haul out of the woods.
- Is a cattle or grain truck kept on a county farm something you buy?Cattle, soybeans and corn lead the 626 farms that USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture records across the county, and grain trucks and livestock haulers from them are on our list. Tell us the plate type and where the truck is kept.