The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists Empire State Mines, a metal mine, 5.7 miles south-east of Gouverneur, with the Balmat Mining Operations processing plant 5.8 miles out on that same side. A dump truck or lowboy tractor that has worked the Balmat road is often still parked near the mine gate, so give us the site name and who controls access before we arrange collection.
Further out, the Mine Safety and Health Administration records an industrial-mineral mine listed as Number 4 at 15.5 miles south, the Ogdensburg Plant crushed-stone quarry 23.8 miles north and the West Carthage Mine quarry 24.7 miles south-west. If your truck has hauled stone from any of these, send photos of the body, the frame and the cab, and note which quarry it served so the history travels with the pictures.
Box trucks, day cabs and straight trucks on local delivery routes fall squarely within what we buy, so have the title and current registration in hand when you reach out.
Machinery and large objects appear on 41 of those FMCSA registrations, logs, poles, beams and lumber on 32, and garbage, refuse and trash on 26. Log trucks, rolloffs and heavy-haul tractors with lowboys are all trucks we collect here; tell us the body type and the trailer, if one goes with it.
A business that owns a single truck for its own work sells it the same way a for-hire outfit does: one title, one registration, one pickup address.
In FMCSA’s census, the three largest fleets based in Gouverneur run 26, 15 and 14 power units. Selling several units from one yard? List each VIN and where every truck sits so one trip can cover them.
Drivers registered here split 286 working within 100 miles and 125 beyond it, per FMCSA’s carrier census. Among the 27 carriers reporting mileage in that census, the median is 6,000 miles per truck a year. Read the odometer and include it with your photos and VIN.
A newer outfit selling its first truck needs the same papers as any other: the title in the company’s name and the registration that matches it.
Fort Drum and rail
The Bureau of Transportation Statistics places Fort Drum, a military installation, 15.9 miles south-west of Gouverneur. A truck sold by someone posted there, or moving away from the base, can stay where it is parked; tell us the location and a contact who can meet us.
Carthage has a rail yard 24 miles south-west on the North American Rail Network kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Trucks that shuttle loads to and from that yard are ones we pick up near Carthage as readily as in Gouverneur, so give us the street address rather than the town.
The Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts put 1,497 jobs in Gouverneur in 2023, with 164 in manufacturing, about 11 percent, and 67 in construction, about 4.5 percent. Contractors’ dump trucks and plant delivery trucks are both on our list; keep any service records with the title.
Milk haulers, livestock trailers and grain trucks often stay on the farm between seasons, and we collect from a barnyard or field lane if you tell us how to reach it.
If the title is lost, or still shows a lender, that office is where a duplicate or lien release starts; bring the registration and your identification.