Merrick’s own-goods haulers
Of the 180 active carriers that FMCSA’s carrier census places in Merrick, 133 run private fleets, hauling their own goods rather than freight for hire. If your truck belongs to a contractor, landscaper or supplier that runs its own vehicles, the title may be in the business name, so check whose name is printed on it before you call us.
Only 18 Merrick carriers are listed as interstate in FMCSA’s carrier census, and the same census records 302 drivers working within 100 miles against 79 who go beyond it. A Merrick truck is usually parked at a yard, a shop lot or a driveway close to home when we collect it, so send us that street address with the VIN.
New registrations stay small and steady: FMCSA’s carrier census shows 7 new Merrick carriers in 2025 and 6 in 2024. If you started an operation recently and are winding it down, have the registration and the operating authority paperwork together so the sale and the closing of the account line up.
General freight, refuse and lumber
General freight is the cargo 67 Merrick carriers list with FMCSA’s carrier census, which points to box trucks, straight trucks and day cabs doing deliveries across Nassau. For one of those, photos of the cargo body, the liftgate if it has one, and the cab interior tell us what the truck is before anyone sees it.
FMCSA’s carrier census also lists 23 Merrick carriers hauling garbage, refuse and trash, 16 carrying logs, poles, beams and lumber, and 14 moving household goods. Roll-offs, packers, flatbeds and moving vans each come with their own equipment, so tell us what is mounted on the chassis along with the make and model of the truck itself.
Short routes and modest annual miles
A typical Merrick truck logs about 10,000 miles a year, the median across the 37 local carriers whose mileage FMCSA’s carrier census holds. Read the odometer and note it in your first message, together with engine hours if the truck runs equipment such as a packer or a crane.
The biggest local operations are not large: FMCSA’s carrier census lists Merrick fleets of 9 power units, 7 power units with 12 drivers, and 7 power units with 4 drivers. Selling several trucks from a fleet that size is one conversation, so list every VIN and say where each truck is kept.
Stopped at the roadside between September 2024 and August 2026, the 67 Merrick trucks in FMCSA roadside inspection records had a median model year of 2017, and 38.8 percent carried a model year ten or more years back. Whatever the year of yours, send the service records you kept along with the photos.
Terminals, rail yards and gravel to the west and north
The Energy Information Administration lists two petroleum product terminals west of Merrick, the Lawrence Blending Terminal at 9.9 miles and the Long Island Blending Terminal at 10.1 miles. If your tractor or tank truck has been loading at either, it can stay parked where it works; give us the location and a contact who can let us onto the lot.
Liquid bulk terminals run by Global sit 13.2 miles north-west and 15.4 miles north of Merrick, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. The North American Rail Network, kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, places the Jamaica Yard 13.6 miles west and a second Jamaica yard at 14.2 miles. A truck kept near any of those sites is collected there, so tell us which gate it sits behind.
Broad Hollow Estates Inc, a sand and gravel operation 10.1 miles north-east, is on record with the Mine Safety and Health Administration. A dump truck or mixer that has worked a pit like that should come with the body specifications and the axle configuration in your message.
Garden City is the title office
The New York State Department of Motor Vehicles runs its Garden City office at 400 Oak St, 5.8 miles from Merrick. If the title is lost, that is where a duplicate is requested, and the request can go in before we schedule the collection.
Bring the registration along with the title, and if a lender is still shown on the title, the lien release from that lender. With the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles office that close, a missing document in Merrick is usually one short drive to Oak Street rather than a reason to wait.
Builders, warehouses and nurseries
Of 7,229 jobs located in Merrick in 2023, construction held 210 and transportation and warehousing 178, on the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts. Contractor pickups with dump bodies, service trucks and delivery vans all come out of that work, and we take each of them.
County Business Patterns from the Census Bureau records 106 construction establishments for the area, and the LEHD job counts add 133 manufacturing jobs and 110 in wholesale trade for 2023. If your truck served a builder or a supplier, say what it carried and whether the body or crane stays with it.
Nassau County had 29 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, with equine operations and cut flowers and cultivated greens leading. A horse-hauling rig or a nursery truck from the county is something we collect too; send the trailer details if it goes with the sale.
The questions we get asked in Merrick
- My Merrick truck only ever did local runs. Can you still collect it from home?Most Merrick trucks stay close: FMCSA’s carrier census lists 161 of 180 local carriers as intrastate, and we collect from the address where yours is parked.
- Which DMV office in Nassau County issues a duplicate title for a Merrick truck?The New York State Department of Motor Vehicles office at 400 Oak St in Garden City, 5.8 miles away, handles a duplicate title request.
- Do you take garbage and refuse trucks from Merrick?Refuse is the second cargo on FMCSA’s carrier census for Merrick, with 23 carriers, and we take packers and roll-offs; tell us the body make with the chassis details.
- Do the paused New York ACT and Omnibus rules affect a Merrick diesel sale?New York’s Department of Environmental Conservation lists enforcement of both the Advanced Clean Trucks regulation and the Heavy-Duty Low NOx Omnibus regulation as paused, and the sale goes ahead with your title and registration.