The Mine Safety and Health Administration records the Fishkill Quarry, a crushed-stone operation, 2.9 miles south-west of Merritt Park. A dump truck or tri-axle that has been loading stone there can stay parked by the quarry road or in your yard; give us the exact spot and we plan the collection around it.
Just past it, 3.2 miles out in the same direction, the CENTURY AGGREGATES FISHKILL MINE appears in Mine Safety and Health Administration listings as a sand and gravel operation. Owners of gravel trailers, roll-offs or end dumps from that pit should photograph the body, the hoist and the cab, then send those shots along with the VIN.
Clinton Point
The Clinton Point mill to the north-west
CLINTON POINT QUARRY & MILL, which the Mine Safety and Health Administration lists as a crushed-stone quarry, lies 6.5 miles north-west of town. Trucks that cycle between that mill and job sites around Dutchess often sit near the operator’s lot between shifts, and that is a fine place for us to meet the truck.
Put the registration and any service records in the cab before pickup day. For a quarry tractor, a list of what it hauled and from which of the three Mine Safety and Health Administration sites near Merritt Park helps us ask the right questions the first time.
Off to the west, the Energy Information Administration lists ROSETON as a petroleum product terminal 5.8 miles from Merritt Park and NEWBURGH as another at 8 miles. Tank wagons and tractors that load at those racks are trucks we buy; tell us the tank’s capacity and compartment count when you write in.
To the north-west, New Hamburg is a liquid bulk terminal 5.3 miles away according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, which also lists Global, a second liquid bulk site 7.9 miles west. A tanker parked at either can be collected from there, provided someone can unlock the gate and point us to the unit.
A rail yard five miles west
The North American Rail Network, kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, places a rail yard at the DANSKAMMER PLANT 5.4 miles west of town. For a day cab that shuttles between that yard and the nearby terminals, the odometer reading is one of the first things we will ask for.
If your truck worked that run and now sits idle near Danskammer, you do not have to bring it back to Merritt Park. Send the address where it sits and the name of whoever holds the keys.
Merritt Park’s farm neighbours are counted in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, which puts 620 farms in Dutchess County and lists milk, equine and deer as the top products there. Milk route trucks, livestock haulers and the flatbeds that move hay to horse barns all fit what we collect.
Keep the farm truck’s registration with the title so the paperwork matches the truck we see. Photos of the bed or body, and of any hitch gear, round out what we need from a farm seller.
Replacing a missing certificate four miles away
The New York State Department of Motor Vehicles handles replacements, and its WAPPINGERS FALLS office at 29 MARSHALL RD, WAPPINGERS FALLS is 4 miles from Merritt Park, according to the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles office list. Starting the replacement there before you contact us keeps the sale moving once the truck is chosen.
A lien on the certificate needs a release from the lender, and the state’s DMV offices can tell you what form they accept.
New York adopted the Advanced Clean Trucks (ACT) Regulation, and the state’s environmental agency has put its enforcement on hold. Merritt Park owners of diesel tractors are not blocked from selling by it today.
The Heavy-Duty Low NOx Omnibus (HD Omnibus) Regulation is in the same position, with enforcement suspended by the state. Put the engine’s model year in your first message to us so the Merritt Park pickup can be lined up around the right truck.