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

The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists a crushed-stone quarry 3 miles south-east of Amsterdam and Pattersonville Plant #61, another crushed-stone quarry 4.5 miles out in the same direction. A dump truck or tri-axle that hauls stone from either pit can stay parked at the quarry gate or in your yard while we arrange the collection; tell us which site and who can let our driver in.

Maple Ave Pit, a sand and gravel operation 11.4 miles north-west of town on Mine Safety and Health Administration records, sits on the opposite side of Amsterdam from the stone quarries. If your truck works out of that pit, send the VIN, a photo of the body and the plate number with your first message.

The North American Rail Network, kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, places the Amsterdam rail yard 1.4 miles south-east of the city and the Mohawk yard 15.2 miles east. Day cabs that shuttle loads to and from those yards are trucks we collect; give us the address where the tractor is parked.

Further out, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics lists the Albany, NY - Mechanicville intermodal ramp 24.4 miles east of Amsterdam. A tractor that pulls containers off that ramp can be sold from wherever it is parked, so long as the title is in your name and you have the registration to hand.

FMCSA’s carrier census counts 268 active carriers based in Amsterdam, with 115 hauling general freight, 49 machinery and large objects, 44 farm supplies and 44 logs, poles, beams and lumber. Flatbeds, lowboys, log trailers and dry vans all come out of that mix, and we take each of them.

Of those 268 carriers, 223 run intrastate and 45 interstate, and 191 are private fleets hauling their own goods, again on the FMCSA census. A contractor or farm business that owns a truck for its own work sells it the same way a for-hire carrier does: title, registration and the keys.

The same federal census shows 739 drivers working within 100 miles of home and 254 beyond it, while the 59 carriers that report mileage put a median of 11,593 miles on each truck in a year. Read the odometer before you call and pass that figure on with the VIN.

Across 187 trucks inspected between September 2024 and August 2026, FMCSA roadside inspection records show a median model year of 2020, and 28.3 percent of them were ten or more years old. Send the model year and engine with your photos, and include any service records you keep.

Those same roadside inspection records from FMCSA list the inspections by truck, so if yours was stopped on the road, keep the inspection report with the title. It gives us the VIN and the plate in one place.

Montgomery County holds 522 farms, and milk leads cattle and corn among what they sell, according to USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture. Milk tankers, livestock haulers, grain trucks and the farm’s own straight trucks are all trucks we collect from the farm itself.

If the truck is parked in a barnyard or field lane, tell us whether a tow truck can reach it in wet weather, and whether the farm or a family member holds the title.

A lost title is replaced through the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles, whose Fonda office at 64 Broadway, County Office Building, is 9.7 miles from Amsterdam. Start the replacement there before the sale, since we need the title in the seller’s name.

Of Amsterdam’s 32 bridges in the National Bridge Inventory, a single one carries a posted load limit, and not one sits lower than 14 feet. Tell us the route to your truck if it crosses the posted bridge, so the pickup is planned around it.

• My dump truck sits at the stone quarry past the Amsterdam rail yard. Will you collect it from the quarry gate?The Mine Safety and Health Administration places that crushed-stone quarry 3 miles south-east of the city, and we come to the truck there; tell us whose lot it is on and who can open the gate.
• Will you pick up a milk tanker or grain truck from a dairy farm outside Amsterdam?Montgomery County’s 522 farms, counted in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, produce mostly milk, cattle and corn, and we collect tankers, livestock trucks and grain trucks from any of them.