Crushed stone from the Elvins pit and its neighbour
The Mine Safety and Health Administration places two crushed-stone quarries within five miles of Park Hills: Elvins Quarry & Mill, 2.4 miles north-west, and ST Francois Quarry (CS54), 4.9 miles south-east. If your dump truck or end-dump tractor hauls rock out of either one, it may well be sitting at the pit or the scale house when you call. Give us the gate it is behind and who can let us in, and the pickup is planned around that site.
Dimension stone is cut farther out: IKO Bismarck lies 11.1 miles south-west and Butler Hill Granite (CS58) 13.3 miles south-east, each listed by the Mine Safety and Health Administration. Trucks that move cut block from those two sites are often flatbeds or lowboys rather than dump bodies. Tell us the trailer type and the axle setup, and send a photo of the deck along with the cab and the VIN plate.
Madison Mine, gravel to the north, cement to the north-east
Madison Mine, a metal mine, is 21 miles south-east of town, and H Sand & Gravel works 22.3 miles north, both on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s listings. A truck parked at a yard that far from Park Hills does not have to be brought into town before you sell it. Share the street address or the pit entrance and a phone number for whoever is on site.
The Amrize Ste Genevieve Plant, a cement plant 23.1 miles north-east according to the Mine Safety and Health Administration, rounds out the heavy-material sites around here. Bulk pneumatic tankers and dry-bulk hoppers that served the plant are trucks we buy. Have the trailer’s paperwork ready alongside the tractor’s title, and tell us if you are selling one without the other.
General freight, dry bulk and heavy machinery
FMCSA’s carrier census shows 32 active carriers based in Park Hills, 13 of them listed for general freight. Six list dry bulk commodities, six list machinery and large objects, and four haul refrigerated food. Whatever your outfit pulled, note the cargo class on your registration when you contact us so we know which trailer and equipment questions to ask.
By operating authority, the same FMCSA census counts 22 intrastate carriers against 10 that cross state lines, and 16 private fleets that move their own goods. If your truck belonged to a contractor or a farm operation rather than a for-hire carrier, have the business name on the title match the person signing, or bring the paperwork that shows who can sign for the company.
New registrations have been steady, with three carriers added in 2024 and three more in 2025 on FMCSA’s census. An owner-operator who started recently and is now stepping away can sell the tractor here just as an older outfit can; the title, a photo ID and the lien release if the truck was financed are what the sale needs.
Short hauls around the county
Carriers here report 135 drivers working within 100 miles of base and 57 who go beyond it, according to FMCSA’s carrier census. Among 11 carriers that reported mileage, the median truck covered 11,200 miles a year in the same census. Those figures describe trucks that stay near St. Francois County, so the truck you are selling is probably parked in or close to Park Hills, which makes collection simple.
Fleet sizes vary widely across FMCSA’s registrations for Park Hills: one carrier lists 71 power units and 69 drivers, another 28 power units and 20 drivers, a third 15 power units and 24 drivers. Selling several units at once works the same way as selling one. List each VIN, where each truck is parked, and which titles are in hand.
Between October 2024 and August 2026, inspectors stopped 36 Park Hills trucks, and FMCSA roadside inspection records put their median build year between 2019 and 2020. Of those 36 stopped trucks, roughly 36 percent carried a model year ten or more years back, by the same FMCSA records. Any model year is welcome; tell us the year, make and model up front and attach your inspection reports if you kept them.
Keep those inspection reports with the truck’s file. A copy of the most recent roadside report, the annual inspection sheet and any service invoices give us the history in writing, and together with photos of the cab, frame, tires and dash they answer most of our questions before the first call.
Construction, manufacturing and cattle country
The Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts put 2,970 jobs in Park Hills in 2023, with 304 in construction (10.2 percent) and 203 in manufacturing (6.8 percent). Twenty-eight construction firms keep an establishment here, says the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns, from site-prep crews to builders. If your truck worked for a builder, a site-prep crew or a plant, a dump truck, a roll-off or a straight truck with a box, we buy it, and the contractor’s business title is handled the same as a personal one.
St. Francois County has 626 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, with cattle, soybeans and corn as the leading products. Grain trucks, livestock haulers and the tractors that pull hopper trailers off those farms qualify too. We pick up from the farmyard or barn lot itself, so mention whether the lane in is gravel or grass.
Titles in Farmington, bridges with no posted limits
Park Hills sellers handle title work 4.2 miles down the road at 103 Walker Drive in Farmington, the Missouri Department of Revenue office for the area. If the title is lost or still names a lender you have cleared, that office is where you apply for a duplicate or record the lien release. Start that before you call us, and send a photo of the receipt so we can schedule pickup with the paperwork underway.
The National Bridge Inventory counts six bridges in Park Hills, and none of them is load-posted or under 14 feet of clearance. A loaded tractor-trailer or a lowboy carrying a second unit can leave town without a detour around a weight or height limit, so tell us the truck’s exact spot and we route directly to it.
The questions we get asked in Park Hills
- Can you collect a dump truck that sits inside Elvins Quarry & Mill?Elvins Quarry & Mill is 2.4 miles north-west of Park Hills on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s listing, and we collect the truck at the quarry. Name the quarry contact who opens the gate and the hours the scale house is staffed.
- Which office in Farmington issues a duplicate title for a Park Hills truck?The Missouri Department of Revenue license office at 103 Walker Drive in Farmington, 4.2 miles away, handles duplicate titles and lien releases. Apply there, keep the receipt and send us a photo of it.
- Will you take a grain truck or cattle hauler off a farm outside Park Hills?St. Francois County’s 626 farms, counted in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, raise mostly cattle, soybeans and corn, and grain trucks and livestock haulers from them are trucks we purchase. Send the VIN, photos and the location of the farm.
- My tractor never leaves the Park Hills area; how does pickup work for a truck like that?Park Hills carriers report 135 drivers working within 100 miles of base on FMCSA’s carrier census, so a local truck is the usual case here. Tell us where it is parked and we come to it.