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

Of the 114 Olivette carriers active in FMCSA’s carrier census, general freight shows up on 73 registrations, the common thread across this suburb’s trucking. If your tractor or straight truck pulled mixed freight around the St. Louis side of the county, tell us the body type and axle setup when you first get in touch, and send the VIN with it.

Household goods appear on 16 Olivette carrier registrations in the FMCSA carrier census, with metal sheets, coils and rolls on 15 and refrigerated food on 14. A moving van, a flatbed set up for coil, or a reefer unit each gets a slightly different set of photos from us: the box interior for a mover, the deck and securement points for a coil hauler, the reefer unit and its hour meter for a cold-chain truck.

New registrations have held level, with the FMCSA carrier census recording 8 new Olivette carriers in 2024 and another 8 in 2025. If you started an authority in one of those years and are now winding down, have your USDOT number handy alongside the title, since it tells us which registered operation the truck was working under.

Of Olivette’s registered operators, the FMCSA carrier census counts 84 with interstate authority, 30 operating intrastate only, and 66 running private fleets that haul their own goods. A truck from a private fleet often has a company name on the doors and a fleet number on the cab; tell us whether the lettering is still on, and photograph both sides so we can see it.

Driver records filed with FMCSA show 631 drivers working within 100 miles of their base for Olivette carriers, against 478 who go beyond that. For a truck that spent its life on short metro routes, a phone photo of the dash showing the odometer and engine hours is the first thing to send.

Forty-nine Olivette operators report yearly mileage in the FMCSA carrier census, and their median truck logs 18,733 miles. Mileage is simply one of the numbers we record, so give us the reading as it stands and the year the truck joined your operation.

Between September 2024 and August 2026, FMCSA roadside inspection records logged 242 trucks belonging to Olivette carriers, and the middle model year among them is 2020. The same FMCSA inspection records put about 15.3 percent of those trucks at ten or more model years old when inspected.

Keep copies of any FMCSA roadside inspection reports with the sale paperwork. If your truck was stopped and passed an inspection, a copy of the report alongside the registration and any service invoices gives us its history in your own documents.

Registered fleet sizes vary widely in the FMCSA carrier census: one Olivette operation lists 121 power units and 115 drivers, another 111 power units and 59 drivers, and a third 99 power units with 222 drivers. If you are selling several units from a fleet like these, a spreadsheet of VINs, unit numbers and yard locations lets us plan each collection.

The North American Rail Network places the Lackland rail yard 1.6 miles north-west of Olivette and the Lindenwood yard 6 miles to the south-east. A day cab parked near either yard can stay where it is; give us the street address and the name of whoever can let us onto the lot.

Two intermodal ramps appear in Bureau of Transportation Statistics listings within reach: the Lindenwood ramp at 6 miles south-east, and the downtown Saint Louis ramp 9.1 miles east, per the same listings. Container chassis and drayage tractors from those ramps are trucks we buy, so tell us whether the chassis goes with the tractor or stays behind.

River freight sits close by as well, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, which lists the Saint Louis County port 4.1 miles south-west and the Saint Louis City port 9.3 miles east. A truck that worked the riverfront terminals may be parked on someone else’s property, so let us know whose gate it sits behind before we schedule the pickup.

The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists Champ Quarry, a crushed-stone operation 6.8 miles north-west, and Dredge Chesterfield, a sand and gravel site 9.2 miles north-west. Dump trucks and tri-axles that hauled stone or gravel out of those sites can be collected from the yard where they now sit.

Per the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts for 2023, builders and trades fill 1,459 of Olivette’s 7,461 jobs, a 19.6 percent slice. County Business Patterns from the Census Bureau records 85 construction establishments in the area alongside 3 warehousing ones. For a contractor’s truck, gather the title, the current registration and any body or hoist manuals before you contact us.

Wholesale trade holds 454 Olivette jobs and manufacturing 304, against 51 in transportation and warehousing, all from the same LEHD job counts. A box truck or stake bed that delivered for a wholesaler is welcome too; photograph the body, the liftgate if there is one, and the plate on the door jamb.

The Missouri Department of Revenue runs a license office called Olivette at 9652 Olive Blvd, about 0.6 miles from the middle of town. If the title is lost or still shows a lienholder, that office is where a duplicate or a lien release gets processed under Missouri Department of Revenue rules.

Bring the title in the registered owner’s name, or the company’s name if the truck belongs to a business, and a photo ID for whoever signs. When a business owns the truck, the signer should be someone authorized to sign for it, and we will tell you which lines on the Missouri title to complete.

Farm trucks count too: USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 222 farms in St. Louis County, growing mostly soybeans, corn and wheat. If your grain truck carries farm plates from the Missouri Department of Revenue, mention that up front so the paperwork matches the registration class.

• Our tractor sits on a lot by Lackland yard off the Olivette side; does it have to come to you first?Lackland sits 1.6 miles north-west of Olivette in the North American Rail Network, and we collect trucks from yards and lots right there. Pass along the lot address and the person holding the gate key.
• The Missouri title for my box truck has gone missing; which office near Olivette replaces it?The Missouri Department of Revenue’s Olivette license office is at 9652 Olive Blvd, 0.6 miles from town, and it handles duplicate titles. Start that request there and tell us it is underway.
• Do you buy moving vans and coil trucks, or just tractors?Olivette’s FMCSA carrier census registrations include 16 household goods haulers and 15 hauling metal coils, and both kinds of truck are ones we buy. Send the VIN and photos of the box or the deck.
• I have a dump truck that hauled from Champ Quarry. Would you collect a quarry dump truck like that?Champ Quarry is a crushed-stone site 6.8 miles north-west of Olivette on Mine Safety and Health Administration records, and dump trucks from quarry work are on our list. Tell us where it is parked and send photos of the bed and hoist.