Gladstone’s small carriers and what they haul
FMCSA’s carrier census lists 33 active motor carriers with a Gladstone address, and 21 of them declare general freight. If your tractor or straight truck belongs to one of those outfits, have the title and the current Missouri registration together before you call, and tell us whether it pulls a van, a flatbed or nothing at all.
Six Gladstone carriers in the same FMCSA census haul motor vehicles, five carry logs, poles, beams or lumber, and five move machinery and large objects. A car hauler, a log trailer setup or a lowboy tractor each needs a different look, so send photos of the deck, the headrack or the gooseneck along with the cab.
The three fleets at the top of Gladstone’s FMCSA roster run 7, 6 and 5 power units, according to the federal carrier census. An owner of a fleet that size can sell one truck or several at once; list each unit’s VIN and where it is parked, and we line up the collections one address at a time.
Gladstone trucks that cross state lines and those that stay home
Of the active Gladstone carriers in FMCSA’s census, 18 hold interstate authority, 15 work intrastate only, and 7 operate as private fleets hauling their own goods. Tell us which applies to your truck and bring the matching registration paperwork, whether it covers Missouri routes only or interstate travel.
Drivers for these Gladstone carriers split 44 within a 100-mile radius and 20 beyond it, per the FMCSA filings. A truck that stays inside the metro is usually parked at a shop or home lot in Clay County at night, which is where we would meet it.
Across the eight Gladstone outfits that filed annual mileage with FMCSA, the middle truck logs 34,947 miles in a year. Read the odometer and photograph it for us, along with the dash and the VIN plate, and keep any service records in the cab.
Rail and freight hubs
Rail yards east and south of Gladstone
The North American Rail Network places the Ford Claycomo Plant yard 4.8 miles east of Gladstone and the Murray yard 5.4 miles south. Haulers who shuttle finished vehicles or parts between those yards and nearby lots fit the motor-vehicle cargo group the carriers here file under, and a car-hauler rig that worked that run is one we collect.
Two Kansas City intermodal ramps sit 6.3 miles south and 7.1 miles east of town on the Bureau of Transportation Statistics map. If your day cab drayed containers off those ramps, give us the chassis details and the tractor’s VIN, and tell us whether it is parked at a drayage yard or at your place.
Quarries, a mineral plant and the Sugar Creek terminal
Randolph Deep Mine, a crushed-stone quarry the Mine Safety and Health Administration lists 5.2 miles south-east, sits beside Randolph Plant #9, an industrial-mineral operation 5.5 miles out. Dump trucks and end-dump tractors that hauled from those pits can be collected from a quarry gate as easily as from a driveway, as long as we know the gate and who can let us in.
Liberty Aggregates LLC runs another crushed-stone quarry 8.4 miles east, again per MSHA records. If your tri-axle or super dump worked that site, send photos of the bed, the hoist and the tag axle, and note any scale tickets or site logs you still keep.
The Energy Information Administration lists the Sugar Creek petroleum product terminal 8.9 miles south-east of Gladstone. Fuel tankers and the tractors that pull them belong on our list; tell us the tank’s capacity and whether the trailer is part of the sale.
Bridges, construction work and Clay County farms
Gladstone’s 6 bridges, as the National Bridge Inventory records them, carry no load posting and give at least 14 feet of headroom. That means a tall box truck or a tractor with a loaded lowboy can reach most local addresses, so give us the street the truck sits on and we plan the route from there.
Census Bureau LEHD job counts for 2023 put 720 of Gladstone’s 8,685 jobs in construction, or 8.3 percent, alongside 67 in wholesale trade and 55 in transportation and warehousing. Contractors selling a dump, a flatbed or a mixer can send the truck’s spec sheet with their photos.
Clay County has 523 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, with cattle, corn and soybeans leading. A grain truck or a livestock hauler kept on a county farm is collected right at the barn, so tell us the farm road and where the truck stands.
Titles and the Gladstone license office
The Missouri Department of Revenue runs a license office at 5943 N Antioch Rd, 0.9 miles from the centre of Gladstone. If the title is lost or still names a lienholder, that office handles a duplicate title or the lien release paperwork; sort it out there first.
Gladstone added 3 new carriers in 2025 and 1 in 2024 under FMCSA’s registration records. An owner closing out a recently registered authority should have the USDOT number to hand and the title in the business name that appears on the registration.
The questions we get asked in Gladstone
- Do you buy car haulers in Gladstone?Six Gladstone carriers in FMCSA’s census haul motor vehicles, and their car-hauler tractors and trailers are trucks we buy; send the VIN and photos of the decks.
- My dump truck sits at a Randolph or Liberty quarry yard; can you get it there?Randolph Deep Mine sits 5.2 miles south-east and Liberty Aggregates 8.4 miles east, per the Mine Safety and Health Administration, and we collect from a quarry yard when someone there can open the gate.
- My truck title went missing; is there a Department of Revenue counter on Antioch Road?The Missouri Department of Revenue license office at 5943 N Antioch Rd, 0.9 miles from town, handles duplicate titles; bring your ID and the VIN.
- Will low bridges block pickup in Gladstone?The National Bridge Inventory lists 6 Gladstone bridges with none under 14 feet and none load-posted, so tell us the address and we plan the approach.