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

South Hill sits in Tompkins County, with a gravel pit 5.1 miles east and Cayuga Mine 8.8 miles north on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list, so the trucks parked on its streets and in its yards tend to be dump bodies, tractors and farm haulers tied to the hills around Ithaca.

Selling a truck in South Hill? Tell us about it and we'll take it from there.

Gravel and salt

Pits and a mine within nine miles of South Hill

University Gravel Products, a sand and gravel operation the Mine Safety and Health Administration records 5.1 miles east of South Hill, and Edger Sand & Gravel LLC, 9 miles south, are both short drives from town. If your tri-axle or tandem dump has spent its seasons loading at either pit, tell us which one and leave the truck where it is parked; we collect from the yard, the driveway or the pit lot.

Cayuga Mine, an industrial-mineral mine the Mine Safety and Health Administration places 8.8 miles north, is the other extraction site nearby. A tractor or end-dump that hauled from Cayuga can be sold from wherever it sits now. Send us the VIN, a photo of the door plate and a few shots of the body and frame, and say whether a gate code or a contact is needed to reach it.

Propane at Harford Mills, fuel at Watkins Glen

The Energy Information Administration places the Harford Mills LPG Terminal 14.8 miles east of South Hill and the Watkins Glen Terminal 23.4 miles west, both petroleum product terminals. Propane bobtails and fuel tankers that load at those two sites are trucks we buy, tank and all, so tell us the tank’s capacity and whether the cargo tank inspection paperwork is in the cab.

A delivery truck based out toward Harford Mills or parked near Watkins Glen does not have to be driven back to Ithaca first. Give us the street address, a name to call on the day, and photos of the cab, the tank and the plate on the chassis, and we arrange the collection at that spot.

The Owego rail yard to the south-east

Owego (OHRY), a rail yard 23.8 miles south-east of town, appears on the North American Rail Network maintained by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Day cabs that shuttle loads between a rail siding and customers are part of what we purchase.

If your tractor is kept near the Owego yard rather than on South Hill, that is where we pick it up. Have the title in the registered owner’s name, the current New York registration, and any service invoices you kept together in one folder before we arrive.

Dairy, corn and cattle farms across Tompkins County

USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 487 farms in Tompkins County, and it ranks milk, corn and cattle as the county’s top products. Bulk milk tankers, grain trucks used at corn harvest and livestock haulers with cattle bodies all fit that list, and we buy each of them from the farm where they are stored.

On a dairy or cattle operation the truck may sit in a barnyard or a machine shed for most of the year. Tell us which building it is in, whether a tractor has to move first to open the doors, and if the registration has lapsed while it was parked, so collection day goes the way you planned it.

Construction crews and jobs around South Hill

County Business Patterns from the Census Bureau lists 89 construction establishments for the area, and the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts put 3,715 jobs in South Hill in 2023. Contractors’ dump trucks, flatbeds, stake bodies and service trucks are as welcome as a long-haul tractor.

If the truck belongs to a small contracting business rather than to you personally, the title will carry the company’s name. Bring the paperwork showing who may sign for the business, along with the title itself, and that signature is the only extra step.

Title office, fleet age and New York’s truck rules

A lost title is handled by the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles office at 301 3rd St in Ithaca, which the DMV lists 2.6 miles from South Hill. Apply for the duplicate there and tell us it is on order; we can start on the photos and VIN while it is processed.

Of 80 trucks stopped in this part of New York between August 2024 and August 2026, FMCSA roadside inspection records show a median model year of 2019, with 23.75 percent ten or more years old. Whatever the model year of yours, put it with the make, engine and axle setup in your first message.

On its heavy-duty vehicle pages, New York’s Department of Environmental Conservation shows enforcement of Advanced Clean Trucks and of the Low NOx Omnibus rule as paused for now, which matters to a South Hill owner weighing a sale. Neither one stops you from selling a diesel truck registered in New York to us today.

The questions we get asked in South Hill

  • Our tandem dump still sits at the University Gravel pit east of South Hill - will you pick it up from that lot?University Gravel Products sits 5.1 miles east and Edger Sand & Gravel 9 miles south of South Hill on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s register, and a truck at either pit is collected on site. Give us the name of whoever holds the pit gate key and we set the visit around their hours.
  • The title to my dump truck went missing - is the Ithaca DMV on 3rd Street the place to replace it?The Ithaca office of the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles, at 301 3rd St, is 2.6 miles from South Hill according to the DMV. Request the duplicate there and let us know when it is on its way.
  • Will you take a bulk milk tanker or a corn-season grain truck off a Tompkins County dairy farm?Milk, corn and cattle lead Tompkins County’s farm products in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, which counts 487 farms here, and tankers, grain trucks and livestock haulers from those farms are all trucks we purchase.
  • Does New York’s clean truck rule stop me from selling my diesel tractor?Enforcement of New York’s Advanced Clean Trucks and Heavy-Duty Low NOx Omnibus regulations is listed as paused by the state Department of Environmental Conservation, so a diesel tractor registered here can be sold to us.

Sell your truck in South Hill

From the gravel pits east and south of South Hill to Cayuga Mine, the fuel terminals at Harford Mills and Watkins Glen and the rail yard at Owego, we collect trucks wherever they work across Tompkins County.