Two petroleum terminals within two and a half miles
The Energy Information Administration places the Lawrence Blending Terminal 2.1 miles north-west of town and the Inwood terminal 2.3 miles out in the same direction. A tank truck or fuel-delivery straight truck that loads at either one is usually parked close by, so give us the yard address and a gate contact and we arrange collection there.
Further up the same line, Bayside Fuel Oil Depot Corporation sits 13.7 miles north-west and The Energy Conservation Group 14 miles out, both listed as liquid bulk terminals by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. If your tanker rotated between these Queens depots and the Inwood racks, note which ones it served and keep its tank test certificates in the cab folder with the title.
Refuse and freight
Refuse routes, freight and lumber loads
FMCSA’s carrier census counts 80 active motor carriers in Lawrence, with 34 listing general freight and 20 listing garbage, refuse and trash. Roll-off trucks, rear loaders and box trucks are the equipment that work produces, and for any of them we want the VIN, a photo of the body and a note of the chassis make before anything else.
Seven of those carriers report machinery and large objects and six report logs, poles, beams and lumber, again per the federal carrier census. A flatbed, a rollback or a lumber truck with a crane fits that list; photograph the deck and the loader from both sides and say whether a trailer goes with it.
Short-haul South Shore
Most of the work stays inside the state
Of the 80 carriers, 64 run intrastate and 16 interstate, and 59 are private fleets hauling their own goods, according to FMCSA registrations. For a private-fleet truck owned by a contractor or a sanitation business, the title should be in the company’s name, so have whoever signs for the business ready when we speak.
Drivers tied to Lawrence carriers number 219 working within 100 miles and 173 beyond it, by the carrier census. Among the 23 carriers that reported annual mileage, the median was 12,500 miles per truck on the same FMCSA filings; read the odometer off the dash and include it with your first message.
Build years on Lawrence-plated tractors and trucks
A 2019 median model year shows up across the 84 Lawrence carrier trucks that FMCSA roadside inspection records logged from September 2024 to August 2026, which makes the build year and engine the details to lead with. The same FMCSA inspection set shows 39.3 percent at ten or more model years old; put the year plate and engine tag in your photos either way.
The three biggest local fleets run 46, 27 and 16 power units, with 60, 27 and 20 drivers, as filed with the carrier census. If you are selling several units from one yard, list each VIN on its own line so every truck is matched to its own title before pickup.
Titles go through the Queens South office
The New York State Department of Motor Vehicles lists Queens South TVB at 168-35 Rockaway Blvd in Jamaica, 4.9 miles from Lawrence. If the title has gone missing, a duplicate comes through the state DMV and that Rockaway Boulevard office is the one listed for this stretch of the shore, so start the request before you contact us.
Under New York’s Department of Environmental Conservation, enforcement of both the Advanced Clean Trucks regulation and the Heavy-Duty Low NOx Omnibus rule is listed as paused. Neither rule changes what you need for the sale: a signed title, the current registration and any service records you have kept.
Rail and the harbor
Queens rail and the Brooklyn box ramp
The North American Rail Network, maintained by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, places Jamaica Yard 8.2 miles north-west and the Jamaica yard 8.5 miles out. A day cab that shuttled freight to those Queens yards can be collected wherever it now sits, so tell us the street and the hours someone can let us in.
Red Hook Container Terminal, a rail intermodal ramp 16.4 miles west in Brooklyn, appears in Bureau of Transportation Statistics listings. Tractors that pulled boxes from that ramp out to Nassau County are on our list; send a photo of the fifth wheel and the cab interior with the VIN.
Payrolls, builders and horse farms
The Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts show 2,228 jobs in Lawrence in 2023, 147 of them, or 6.6 percent, in transportation and warehousing. County Business Patterns from the Census Bureau records 21 construction establishments, the source of many dump trucks and stake bodies on South Shore streets; if yours carries a contractor’s lettering, photograph it as it is.
Horses and cut flowers top the list for the 29 Nassau County farms counted in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture. A horse-van straight truck or a nursery delivery box truck from one of those farms qualifies too, and the farm’s registration paperwork should travel with it.
The questions we get asked in Lawrence
- Must a refuse truck kept by the Inwood racks be driven over to Lawrence before collection?The Inwood terminal is 2.3 miles north-west of Lawrence on Energy Information Administration listings, and we collect from yards like that one where the truck already sits. Name the Inwood yard and who holds its gate key, and pickup is planned around them.
- Which DMV office near Lawrence handles a duplicate truck title?Queens South TVB, at 168-35 Rockaway Blvd in Jamaica, is 4.9 miles away and is listed by the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles. Request the duplicate through the DMV and tell us when it is on the way.
- Does the paused ACT and Omnibus enforcement in New York matter for a sale from Lawrence?The Department of Environmental Conservation lists enforcement of the Advanced Clean Trucks and Low NOx Omnibus rules as paused in New York. With a signed title in hand, a Lawrence owner can sell a diesel tractor of any model year to us.