Sell your semi truck for cash in Setauket the easy and convenient way

FMCSA’s carrier census counts 45 active motor carriers based in Setauket, and 43 of them are registered for intrastate work only, against 2 cleared to cross state lines. For a seller that usually means the truck has spent its life on Long Island roads, and it is most likely parked at a home, a shop yard or a job site within the county when we come to collect it.

Of those 45, the federal census lists 36 as private fleets: businesses that run trucks to move their own goods rather than hauling for hire. If your truck belongs to a contractor, a landscaper or a supply firm, have the business name on the title match the registration, and have someone with authority to sign for the company available when we arrange the pickup.

Fleet sizes are modest: in FMCSA’s carrier census the three biggest Setauket operators report 12, 10 and 6 power units, and the 12-unit fleet lists only 3 drivers. If you are selling one or several units from a yard like that, send the VIN of each truck and say which ones sit idle, so we can plan to collect them together.

General freight is the most common cargo line, claimed by 17 Setauket carriers in the FMCSA census, with 10 hauling machinery and large objects. Box trucks, straight trucks and tractors with flatbed or lowboy trailers come out of that kind of work, and we buy each of those body styles. Photograph the body or trailer alongside the cab so we see the whole unit.

Lumber, poles and beams are hauled by 5 Setauket carriers and refuse by 4, going by FMCSA’s carrier census. Roll-off, rear-loader and lumber-hauling trucks are all on the list of what we purchase; for a refuse body, tell us the make of the packer or hoist as well as the chassis.

Whatever the cargo, the plate number, the VIN and a clear shot of the dashboard are the three things we ask for first. With those in hand, the rest of the conversation is about where the truck sits and who signs.

The Bureau of Transportation Statistics places the port at Port Jefferson about 1.5 miles north-east of town. If your truck is kept near the harbor, give us the street and note any height or turning limits at the lot so the right recovery truck is sent.

Only 2.5 miles south-east, the East Setauket petroleum product terminal appears in Energy Information Administration listings, and a second terminal at North Holtsville sits 9.7 miles south. Fuel delivery and tank trucks that load at either site are vehicles we take; keep the tank’s inspection certificates with the title so they travel with the sale.

Brookhaven Rail Terminal, 12.6 miles south-east, shows up both as a liquid bulk terminal in Bureau of Transportation Statistics records and as a rail yard on the North American Rail Network. Further out, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics lists a liquid bulk terminal called Global 22.1 miles west. If your tractor shuttled between the yard and the island’s terminals, tell us where it is parked now and we will collect it there.

Mine Safety and Health Administration records list Coram Materials Corp, a sand and gravel operation 7.6 miles east, and Roanoke Sand & Gravel Corporation about 9.8 miles in the same direction. A tri-axle or dump body that fills at Coram or Roanoke is exactly the sort of Setauket truck we collect.

Of Setauket’s 1,092 jobs in 2023, the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts put 59 in construction, a 5.4 percent slice. If your dump truck is parked on a job site rather than at home, let us know who controls the gate and when the site is open, and we will schedule around it.

The nearest New York State Department of Motor Vehicles office for title work is in Hauppauge, at 250 Veterans Memorial Hwy, roughly 10.4 miles from Setauket. If the title is lost, that office handles a replacement, so start the request there before you contact us.

Bring the current registration, the title in the name of the person or company selling, and any lien release if the truck was financed. A company-owned truck also needs the signature of an officer of the business, so arrange that before the collection is booked.

Suffolk County’s 578 farms, tallied in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, lead with potted flowering plants, then equine operations, then hogs. Nursery box trucks, horse-hauling rigs and livestock trucks from those operations can be sold to us the same way as any freight truck.

For a Setauket owner weighing a sale, New York currently shows Advanced Clean Trucks and the Heavy-Duty Low NOx Omnibus with enforcement on pause. Either way, a North Shore diesel still changes hands with us on its title, its registration and its keys.

• My truck is parked near the Port Jefferson harbor. Will you pick it up at the harbor?Port Jefferson’s port is about 1.5 miles north-east of Setauket on Bureau of Transportation Statistics listings, and we collect trucks from there. Give us the harbor-side address and whoever holds the lot keys.
• My Setauket company keeps its own trucks. Can a company sell to you?Thirty-six of Setauket’s 45 carriers in FMCSA’s census are private fleets, so company sellers are common here. Have the title in the company’s name and an officer available to sign.