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Peekskill · Westchester County · New York

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Peekskill sits on the Hudson in northern Westchester County, with a petroleum terminal at Cortland Manor, Camp Smith on the hill above town and quarries across the river at Haverstraw. The trucks that work here haul fuel, refuse, lumber and general freight up and down the valley.

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Freight, refuse and lumber out of the Hudson Valley

General freight tops the cargo list for Peekskill, claimed by 130 of the city’s 317 active carriers in FMCSA’s carrier census. If your box truck or tractor has been moving general freight around Westchester, send a clear photo of the door sticker with the VIN and a copy of the current New York registration.

Refuse hauling is the second line in that same federal census, with 28 Peekskill carriers listing garbage, refuse and trash. A roll-off or rear-loader sold here usually comes with a body that matters as much as the chassis, so send photos of the hoist or packer as well as the cab, and tell us the body make if you know it.

Twenty-five local carriers list motor vehicles and 23 list logs, poles, beams and lumber, according to FMCSA’s carrier census. Car carriers and flatbeds with stake pockets or headache racks are part of what we collect; note any trailer that goes with the tractor so the pickup is planned for both.

Small private fleets on the river

Per FMCSA’s carrier census, 282 local carriers operate intrastate against 34 interstate, and 242 haul their own goods as private carriers. A contractor or a supply yard selling one unit out of its own fleet can do that directly with us; the company name on the title just has to match whoever signs it.

The three biggest fleets registered in town run 55, 26 and 18 power units, with 31, 28 and 18 drivers, as FMCSA’s census records them. When a fleet retires several trucks at once, a list of VINs and where each one is parked is the quickest thing to hand us.

Of the drivers tied to Peekskill carriers, FMCSA’s census places 2,703 inside a 100-mile radius and 337 outside it. Among the 66 carriers reporting mileage to the federal census, the median truck covered 9,050 miles in a year, so most units we see from here have spent their lives on short Hudson Valley routes and are parked close to home.

The model years stopped at roadside

FMCSA roadside inspection records cover 111 trucks from Peekskill carriers checked between August 2024 and August 2026; their median model year was 2017, and 42.3 percent were ten or more years old. Whatever year yours is, the model year printed on the title is the one we go by, so have that title within reach when you call.

Hang on to the roadside paperwork. If your truck passed through a roadside check in that window, the inspection sheet and any annual inspection paperwork help show us how it has been kept, alongside a set of photos of the frame, tires and cab interior.

Fuel tanks at Cortland Manor, stone at Haverstraw

The Energy Information Administration places the Cortland Manor petroleum product terminal 1.3 miles north-west of Peekskill, and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics lists the Global liquid bulk terminal 13.7 miles out in the same direction. A tank truck or fuel delivery unit parked at either site can stay there; give us the gate contact and we will arrange collection on site.

Two rail yards lie to the south on the North American Rail Network: North Croton at 5.5 miles and Harmon Shops at 6.9 miles. If your truck works freight off those yards, tell us which one, since a lot beside the tracks may need a named contact to let us in.

Across the river, the Mine Safety and Health Administration lists the Haverstraw Quarry and Mill 8 miles south and a crushed-stone quarry under Speyside Holdings 10.8 miles north-west. Dump trucks and tri-axles that haul stone out of pits like these are collected where they sit, so a quarry address and the hours someone is on the scale house are all we need to schedule the visit.

Construction jobs and clear bridges

Construction accounts for 579 of the 6,320 jobs located in Peekskill in 2023, or 9.2 percent, on the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts, while transportation and warehousing account for 160. Westchester’s builders in the city itself number 157 construction establishments, per the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns. Contractors here run dump bodies, flatbeds and service trucks, and each one sells the same way: title, keys, photos and the address where it is parked.

Peekskill’s 12 spans in the federal National Bridge Inventory include no weight-posted bridge and no clearance lower than 14 feet. A tow truck or a lowboy reaching a driveway in town has no posted bridge to route around, so give us the street address and whether the truck is behind a locked gate.

Park Street DMV and the paused Albany truck rules

The New York State Department of Motor Vehicles runs its Peekskill office at 1045 Park Street, 0.3 miles from the centre of town. If the title is missing or still shows a lender, that office is where a replacement title or a lien release gets processed, and we can talk you through what to bring before you go.

Both of the state’s clean-truck regulations, Advanced Clean Trucks and the Heavy-Duty Low NOx Omnibus, show enforcement paused on the Department of Environmental Conservation’s pages. Neither one stands in the way of selling a diesel truck in Westchester County today; the title, the registration and your photos are what the sale rests on.

The questions we get asked in Peekskill

  • My dump truck sits at a Haverstraw quarry pit across the Hudson. Does it have to come over to Peekskill first?The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists the Haverstraw Quarry and Mill 8 miles south of Peekskill, and we collect from quarry lots like that one. Send the site address and the name of whoever controls the gate.
  • I cannot find the title to the rig I keep in Peekskill. Which DMV office in Peekskill handles that?The Peekskill office of the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles, at 1045 Park Street, is 0.3 miles from the centre of town and handles replacement titles. Start that before the sale if the original cannot be found.
  • My Peekskill business hauls its own goods with a few trucks. Will you take one unit out of that private fleet?FMCSA’s carrier census counts 242 private fleets among Peekskill’s 317 active carriers, and selling a single unit from one of them is routine for us. The business named on the title signs the paperwork.
  • Do the paused New York clean-truck rules affect selling my diesel?New York’s Department of Environmental Conservation shows enforcement of both the Advanced Clean Trucks and the Low NOx Omnibus regulations as paused. Your sale rests on the title, registration and photos of the truck.

Sell your truck in Peekskill

Peekskill trucks work the Hudson’s east bank from the Cortland Manor terminal and Camp Smith south to the Croton rail yards, and across the river to the Haverstraw quarries.