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Amityville · Suffolk County · New York

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

Amityville sits on the South Shore of Suffolk County, a village of 9,588 people by the Census Bureau’s count, where box trucks, refuse trucks and moving vans share short local routes with dump trucks heading to the gravel pit up the road.

Selling a truck in Amityville? Tell us about it and we'll take it from there.

South Shore carriers that rarely leave the state

FMCSA’s carrier census lists 408 active carriers registered in Amityville, and 351 of them run intrastate against 55 that cross state lines. If your truck has spent its working life on Long Island runs, the New York registration and the title in your name are the two papers to find before you call.

Amityville’s businesses run 290 private fleets among those carriers, by FMCSA’s tally, moving their own stock instead of other people’s freight. A contractor, landscaper or supplier on the South Shore who owns one or two trucks for the business can sell one without closing the account; tell us whose name is on the title, the owner’s or the company’s.

Drivers attached to these carriers mostly stay close: FMCSA records 775 operating within 100 miles of base and 281 beyond it. A truck on that local pattern is usually parked at a yard or a driveway in town, so give us the street address and say whether a flatbed can back in.

Box trucks, packers and moving vans in the village

General freight is the cargo most often declared here, by 199 carriers in FMCSA’s census, and box trucks and straight trucks are the usual equipment for it. Have the registration, the VIN and a clear photo of the cargo body ready, and note the body length if you know it.

Garbage, refuse and trash is claimed by 39 Amityville carriers in the FMCSA listing, household goods by 31 and motor vehicles by 28. Packers, roll-offs, moving vans and car carriers all fit what we buy; for a packer or roll-off, a photo of the hoist or body with the cab in frame tells us what we are looking at.

Three fleets lead the registrations here, with 127, 109 and 23 power units according to FMCSA. An operation retiring several trucks at once can send one list of VINs and yard locations rather than calling truck by truck.

Tractors and straight trucks pulled over on Long Island roads

A 2018 model year sits at the midpoint of the 307 Amityville-registered trucks that turn up in FMCSA roadside inspection records from September 2024 through August 2026. Roughly 42.7 percent of those 307 inspected Amityville trucks, the FMCSA records show, carried a model year at least ten years back. Copy the model year straight off your New York title when you describe the truck to us, so the two never disagree.

Annual mileage is modest in this village: the median reported to FMCSA is 10,000 miles per truck, across 96 carriers that filed a figure. Read the odometer before you call and take a photo of the dash showing it, along with the engine hours if the truck records them.

Broad Hollow gravel, North Shore tanks, Queens rail

Six miles north, Broad Hollow Estates Inc is listed by the Mine Safety and Health Administration as a sand and gravel operation. Dump trucks and tri-axles that load there are welcome; if yours sits at the pit, name a contact who can let us onto the site.

Out to the north-west, about 15 to 16 miles off, the Energy Information Administration lists petroleum product terminals at Oyster Bay and Glennwood Landing, and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics records Global’s liquid bulk terminals at the same spots. A tractor that has pulled tankers from there can be collected from wherever it is parked once you send the address.

Westward, the North American Rail Network places Jamaica Yard about 20.5 miles away and the Jamaica rail yard at 21.1 miles. If your truck worked the rail side in Queens and is still parked near there, it does not need to come back out to Suffolk County for us to pick it up.

Title help two miles away in Massapequa

A lost title is replaced by the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles, whose Massapequa office at 927 Carmans Road, in the Carmans Plaza Shopping Center, is about 2.2 miles from Amityville. Start the duplicate there before the sale if you cannot find the original.

On the state Department of Environmental Conservation’s heavy-duty vehicle pages, enforcement of Advanced Clean Trucks and of the Heavy-Duty Low NOx Omnibus both show as paused. Neither one changes the papers you need to sell a diesel truck here: the title, the registration and a photo ID that matches the name on the title.

Construction and trade jobs around the village

The Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts for 2023 put 8,068 jobs in Amityville, with 534 in construction, 468 in manufacturing, 392 in wholesale trade and 124 in transportation and warehousing. Contractors’ dump trucks and suppliers’ delivery trucks belong to that work, and either can be sold straight from the job yard.

Amityville is home to 114 construction establishments, a figure from the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns, and their dump bodies and stake beds are trucks we collect from the shop lot. Across Suffolk County, USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 578 farms, with potted flowering plants, horses and hogs leading; a nursery stake truck or a livestock hauler from one of them is a truck we will look at too.

The questions we get asked in Amityville

  • Which DMV office replaces a lost truck title for an Amityville owner?The Massapequa office of the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles, at 927 Carmans Road, is about 2.2 miles from the village and issues duplicate titles. Carry your license and the truck’s VIN to that Carmans Plaza counter.
  • Can my tri-axle stay at the Broad Hollow pit north of Amityville for pickup?Broad Hollow Estates Inc, the sand and gravel operation the Mine Safety and Health Administration lists 6.4 miles north, is a place we can collect from. Tell us who at Broad Hollow can open up for the flatbed, and when the pit is staffed.
  • Do you buy refuse and moving trucks here?Amityville has 39 refuse carriers and 31 household goods carriers in FMCSA’s census, and packers, roll-offs and moving vans from them are all trucks we buy. A photo of the packer body or van box with the cab in frame, plus the name on the title, gets the conversation started.
  • Do the paused clean truck rules affect selling my diesel truck in New York?New York’s Department of Environmental Conservation lists enforcement of both the Advanced Clean Trucks and HD Omnibus regulations as paused. The sale itself still turns on a clear title and a registration in your name.

Sell your truck in Amityville

We collect trucks across Amityville and the South Shore, from the gravel pit north of the village to the fuel terminals at Oyster Bay and the Jamaica rail yards to the west.