FMCSA’s carrier census lists 113 active motor carriers based in Hornell, and 76 of them are private fleets moving their own goods rather than hiring out. If your truck belongs to a business that hauls for itself, such as a farm, a contractor or a supplier, the seller is the name on the title, so have whoever signs for the company ready when you contact us.
General freight is the cargo most often declared, by 43 carriers, with machinery and large objects at 26, according to the same FMCSA census. Farm supplies and logs, poles, beams and lumber follow with 21 carriers each in that FMCSA tally. Tell us which of those your truck hauled and what body or trailer setup it carries, whether a flatbed, a lowboy, a log bunk or a box, so we know what is coming before we see it.
Only 11 of Hornell’s carriers are cleared for interstate work, while 102 stay inside New York, the FMCSA census shows. A truck that has never left the state usually has its New York registration and inspection sticker as its main paperwork; keep both with the title so the sale can be checked against them.
Short routes and local miles around Hornell
Carriers here report 200 drivers who stay within 100 miles of home and 72 who go farther, under FMCSA’s carrier census. Most Hornell trucks therefore sit close to town between jobs, in a yard, a barn lot or a driveway, and that is where we collect it; give us the address and say whether a tractor can get in and turn around.
Have the current odometer reading and the VIN to hand when you get in touch, since those two figures answer most of our first questions.
Fleets in town run small: the FMCSA census puts one Hornell operation at 36 power units with 9 drivers, and two others at 11 power units each. If you are selling several units from one operation, send a list with each VIN, its unit number and where it is parked, and we can plan one visit for the lot.
Of those trucks, 57.45 percent were ten or more model years old when FMCSA inspectors stopped them. Whatever the year of yours, list it with the make and model when you first write to us.
Inspection reports, service invoices and the annual New York inspection paperwork all help show what a truck has done. Bring together what you have before the pickup; if a file is thin, tell us the truck’s main work instead and we will ask the questions from there.
Gravel, stone and fuel east of town
The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists the Howard Plant, a sand and gravel operation 8.3 miles east of Hornell, and the Cohocton Mine, another sand and gravel site 13.5 miles to the north-east. Dump trucks and tri-axles that have worked these pits can be collected at the pit yard if the operator allows it, so name the site and a contact who can let us in.
Further out, the Bath Plant, a crushed-stone quarry, lies 16.3 miles east according to MSHA records, and the Energy Information Administration places the SAVONA petroleum product terminal 20.7 miles east as well. If your tanker or aggregate hauler is parked at one of those sites rather than in Hornell, leave it where it sits and send us the location.
Milk haulers, grain trucks and livestock rigs from those operations are trucks we buy, and a farm truck parked in a field or machine shed can be picked up there.
Whichever plate yours carries, have the title in the farm owner’s or the farm business’s name and the current registration together, so the paperwork matches the person signing.
Jobs, builders and roads around the city
Manufacturing accounts for 825 of the 3,728 jobs located in Hornell, 22.1 percent, according to the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts for 2023, and wholesale trade adds 51. Box trucks and straight trucks that deliver to or from those plants can be sold from the loading dock or the company yard where they are kept.
Contractors’ dump bodies, flatbeds and utility trucks are welcome; tell us about any attached equipment, such as a plow, a crane or a lift gate, so it is described correctly from the start.
Among the 19 bridges the National Bridge Inventory lists around Hornell, one is load posted and none has a clearance under 14 feet. Tell us of any weight limit on the road to your yard so the pickup truck and trailer take a route that suits it.