North Fork carriers
The North Fork’s working fleet
Of the 110 active carriers FMCSA’s carrier census places in Mattituck, a full 104 hold intrastate-only authority and just 6 cross state lines. A truck from one of these outfits has usually spent its life between Orient Point and the Riverhead line, so when you contact us, tell us the town or farm road where it is parked and we will plan the collection there.
Of those 110 carriers, 91 are private fleets moving their own goods, according to the same FMCSA census. That covers nurseries, builders and haulers who own a dump truck or flatbed to serve their own business. If yours is a company truck, have the registration in the business name and the person who can sign for the company ready before pickup.
Freight, refuse, machinery and farm loads
General freight is the most common cargo listed, with 32 Mattituck carriers declaring it in the FMCSA census, followed by garbage and refuse at 13. Box trucks, roll-off and rear-loader units all fit what we purchase; send photos of the body, the cab and the plate so we can match the unit to its paperwork.
Machinery and large objects appear on 11 carrier filings and farm supplies on 10, by FMCSA’s carrier census. Lowboys, tilt-decks and stake-body trucks that moved equipment or feed between North Fork farms qualify the same way, and the trailer can go with the tractor or be sold on its own if it carries its own title.
Fuel racks and pits
Terminals and pits around Riverhead
United Riverhead Terminal, a liquid bulk terminal on the Bureau of Transportation Statistics list, sits 5.7 miles west of Mattituck, and the Energy Information Administration records a petroleum product terminal at Riverhead 5.8 miles out. Fuel and tank trucks that loaded at those racks can be collected where they are parked; tell us which yard holds the truck and who opens the gate.
South of town, the Mine Safety and Health Administration lists East Coast Mines & Materials, a sand and gravel operation 10.9 miles away, and Westhampton Property Associates 12.1 miles to the south-west. Dump trucks and tri-axles working those pits are welcome; a photo of the bed raised and the VIN plate answers most of our first questions.
Farther out, the North American Rail Network shows the Brookhaven Rail Terminal 24.2 miles south-west, which the Bureau of Transportation Statistics also lists as a liquid bulk terminal. If your truck shuttles loads to that rail yard and is parked there between runs, we can collect it on site.
Short routes and fleet sizes
Drivers working within 100 miles of base number 201 across Mattituck carriers, against 44 who go beyond that radius, per FMCSA’s carrier census. For 27 carriers reporting mileage, the median works out to 6,249 miles per truck in the same census, so record the odometer reading when you send the VIN.
The biggest fleet here runs 31 power units with 24 drivers, and two others each run 11 units, FMCSA’s census shows. Selling several trucks from one yard is a single conversation: list each VIN and plate, and we arrange all of them together.
New registrations come in small numbers, with FMCSA recording 7 new Mattituck carriers in 2025 and 3 in 2024. A newer operator selling a first truck needs the same papers as a long-standing one: the title, current registration and a photo ID.
Across 53 trucks inspected between September 2024 and August 2026, FMCSA roadside inspection records put the median model year at 2016, with about 50.9 percent of them ten or more years old.
Model year matters to us only as a fact for the listing, so give it alongside the make, model and engine. Any inspection reports you kept from those roadside stops can go in with the photos.
Hamlet employment
Construction, farming and manufacturing work
The Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts show 1,450 jobs in Mattituck in 2023, with 206 in construction, 112 in manufacturing and 51 in agriculture, forestry and fishing. Builders are well represented locally too, with 42 construction firms around the hamlet on the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns. Contractor dump trucks, flatbeds and service bodies from those firms are all trucks we collect.
In Suffolk County, USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 578 farms, with potted flowering plants, horses and hogs leading the list. Nursery box trucks, livestock haulers and stake beds from those operations can be picked up at the farm, so give us the field or barn address rather than a mailing address.
Mattituck owners missing a title go to the Riverhead branch of the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles, 7.4 miles west at 200 Old Country Rd, for a duplicate. Ask there before the sale, and bring the registration and your ID.
Enforcement of the Advanced Clean Trucks regulation is paused in New York, and the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation shows the same status for the Heavy-Duty Low NOx Omnibus rule. Neither rule stands in the way of selling a diesel truck from the North Fork today.
The questions we get asked in Mattituck
- My dump truck is parked at a sand pit south of Mattituck. Will your driver go out to the pit?East Coast Mines & Materials, 10.9 miles south of town on the Mine Safety and Health Administration list, is the kind of site we pick up from. Give us the pit’s address and a contact on site who can let the driver in.
- My carrier holds intrastate authority only. Does that change anything about selling the truck?Intrastate-only carriers make up 104 of the 110 active Mattituck carriers in FMCSA’s census, and their trucks are bought the same way. Send the VIN, plate and photos and we handle it from there.
- Are New York’s heavy-duty emission rules a problem for selling my diesel from Mattituck?Both the Advanced Clean Trucks rule and the Low NOx Omnibus show enforcement paused on New York’s Department of Environmental Conservation site. A diesel from Suffolk County can be sold like any other truck.