Stone east of the village
Stone two miles east, gravel on three sides of Shortsville
The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists the Manchester Plant, a crushed-stone quarry, about 2.1 miles east of Shortsville. A dump truck or tractor that has been loading stone there may well be parked at the quarry or in a yard along the way when you sell it, so tell us which lot it is on and who can let us in.
Sand and gravel come out of two more sites on MSHA’s list: the Palmyra Plant roughly 8.2 miles north-east, and Syracusa Sand & Gravel about 11.7 miles west. MSHA also places the Walworth Plant quarry some 15.3 miles to the north-west. If your truck shuttled between these pits, a short note of which ones it served helps us ask the right questions, and photos of the body, frame and tires let us see the truck before we arrive.
A village whose carriers mostly stay in-state
Shortsville has 71 active motor carriers on FMCSA’s carrier census, and 61 of them run intrastate while only 9 cross state lines. For a seller, that usually means the truck is somewhere in the region rather than out on a long haul, which makes it simpler to agree a collection point.
According to the same FMCSA census, 56 of those Shortsville carriers are private fleets hauling their own goods rather than freight for hire. A farm, contractor or supplier selling one unit from such a fleet should have the title in the business’s name ready, along with the registration and any service records kept in the shop.
Machinery, farm supplies and grain out of the village
Of Shortsville’s carriers on FMCSA’s census, 27 haul general freight, 25 carry machinery and large objects, 20 move farm supplies and 18 take grain, feed and hay. Whether yours is a lowboy tractor, a flatbed or a grain hauler from that mix, tell us what it pulled and which trailer comes with it.
Ontario County had 815 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, with milk, cattle and corn at the top of the list. A feed truck or cattle hauler parked on a farm outside Shortsville can be collected from the farm itself, so give us the road address and a note on where in the yard it sits.
Forty-three inspected trucks and their 2016 median
Between November 2024 and August 2026, FMCSA roadside inspection records cover 43 trucks from Shortsville carriers, with a median model year of 2016, and those same records put about 47 percent of them at ten or more model years old.
Keep any inspection reports alongside the title for the sale. The 16 Shortsville carriers reporting mileage to FMCSA’s census put a median of 14,875 miles on each truck a year; have your odometer reading and VIN ready when you call, because nearly every other question we have follows from those two.
Shortsville’s top three operators run fleets of 20, 15 and 10 power units on FMCSA’s census. An owner selling several trucks at once can list each VIN, where it is parked and whose name is on each title, and we plan the collections from that list.
The Canandaigua DMV counter, five and a half miles off
A lost title is replaced through the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles, and its CANANDAIGUA office at 20 Ontario St, Canandaigua sits about 5.5 miles from Shortsville. Start the replacement before you arrange the sale, so the title in hand matches the name on the registration.
If the truck is titled to a business, bring the business documents the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles asks for to the Canandaigua counter, and keep the replacement title with the registration once it arrives.
Rail, fuel and builders
Rail yards at Lyons and Geneva, fuel toward Rochester
The North American Rail Network shows a rail yard at Lyons, about 13.7 miles north-east of Shortsville, and another at Geneva, some 14.1 miles east. The Energy Information Administration lists the Rochester South petroleum product terminal roughly 24.9 miles west. A tractor that has worked out of a yard or terminal can be collected there if the operator allows it; tell us the gate contact.
Builders count too: the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns puts 18 construction establishments in Ontario County around Shortsville. New York’s Advanced Clean Trucks regulation and its Heavy-Duty Low NOx Omnibus rule are both on the state’s books, and enforcement of each is paused; a diesel truck from a Shortsville contractor can be sold to us as it stands today.
The questions we get asked in Shortsville
- I misplaced the title to my Shortsville tractor; which office issues a new one?The New York State Department of Motor Vehicles office in Canandaigua, at 20 Ontario St, is about 5.5 miles from Shortsville and handles title replacement. Start it before the sale so the title matches the registration.
- I run a farm truck that hauls feed and grain around Ontario County. Would a feed hauler like mine qualify?Grain, feed and hay are listed by 18 Shortsville carriers on FMCSA’s census, and farm trucks like these are trucks we buy. Send photos, the VIN and the farm’s address and we arrange collection from there.