Setauket’s fuel terminal and the Port Jefferson waterfront
The Energy Information Administration lists a petroleum product terminal at East Setauket, 1.9 miles east of Stony Brook, and a second one, the North Holtsville Terminal, 7.3 miles to the south-east. A tank truck or fuel delivery straight truck that loads at either rack can be collected from the yard where it is kept between runs; send us that street address and the name of whoever holds the key.
Port Jefferson, 4.2 miles north-east of town, appears among the ports listed by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. If the truck you are selling is parked near the harbor or the ferry approach, tell us whether a tractor and lowboy can turn in beside it, and photograph the cab, the frame rails and the plate on the door jamb so the VIN is legible.
Sand pits past Coram
Sand and gravel along the Coram and Roanoke roads
Two sand and gravel operations sit east of Stony Brook in the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s mine records: Coram Materials Corp at 8.1 miles and Roanoke Sand & Gravel Corporation at 9.7 miles. Dump trucks, tri-axles and loaders’ haul units that work those pits are trucks we buy, and a pickup from a pit gate or a contractor’s lot is arranged around the site’s hours.
Construction accounted for 122 of the 3,712 jobs located in Stony Brook in 2023, a 3.3 percent share by the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts. Stony Brook’s construction trade spans 40 establishments in the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns, from site contractors to builders with a single dump truck. If your dump truck or rollback belongs to one of those firms, have the title and the current New York registration together before you call.
Tankers and trailers off the Brookhaven rail yard
South-east of town, 11.4 miles out, the North American Rail Network maintained by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics shows the Brookhaven Rail Terminal yard. The Bureau of Transportation Statistics also lists the same site as a liquid bulk terminal. A tractor that shuttles trailers or tankers off that yard can stay where it is parked; give us the gate details and a contact on site.
Further west, a liquid bulk terminal named Global stands 21 miles from Stony Brook in the Bureau of Transportation Statistics list. If your truck is now kept out near that terminal, it can be collected there rather than on the North Shore. A location pin and a phone number for whoever can unlock it are enough for us to plan the collection.
Who keeps trucks on the books in Stony Brook
FMCSA’s carrier census counts 59 active carriers in Stony Brook, 52 of them intrastate and 7 interstate, with 49 operating as private fleets hauling their own goods. By the same FMCSA census, general freight is listed by 22 of those carriers, garbage and refuse by 7, machinery and large objects by 6, and logs, poles, beams and lumber by 5. Whether yours is a box truck, a roll-off, a flatbed or a log truck, it fits what we purchase.
On driver radius, the federal carrier census reports 68 drivers staying within 100 miles and 30 travelling beyond it. The biggest local operation in that census runs 17 power units with 14 drivers, and the next two run 4 trucks each. Small fleets and single-truck owners sell to us the same way: VIN, photos, and where the truck sits.
A replacement title from Veterans Memorial Highway
A lost New York title is replaced by the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles, whose office at 250 Veterans Memorial Hwy in Hauppauge is 7.7 miles from Stony Brook. Start that application before you list the truck with us, and keep the receipt; a title in the right name is the one document every sale needs.
For annual mileage, a median of 11,862 miles per truck across 12 reporting carriers comes from FMCSA’s carrier census. Have your own odometer reading, the registration, and any service or inspection records ready to send alongside the photos, so the description we work from is your truck’s own.
Suffolk County farms and New York’s truck emission rules
Potted flowering plants, horses and hogs top the list for Suffolk County’s 578 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, which puts working farms within reach of Stony Brook’s eastern roads. Nursery box trucks, livestock haulers and farm straight trucks from those operations can be collected at the farm itself.
On its heavy-duty vehicle pages, New York’s Department of Environmental Conservation shows the Advanced Clean Trucks rule and the Low NOx Omnibus rule with enforcement on pause. A Stony Brook owner with a diesel tractor or straight truck can sell it to us with either rule in that paused state.
The questions we get asked in Stony Brook
- Can you collect a tri-axle from the Coram sand pit instead of my Stony Brook driveway?Coram Materials Corp is 8.1 miles east of Stony Brook in the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s records, and we collect from the pit or yard where the truck sits. Give us the pit foreman’s number so the gate is open on collection day.
- Which DMV office near Stony Brook reissues a missing title?The Hauppauge office of the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles, at 250 Veterans Memorial Hwy, 7.7 miles from Stony Brook, handles replacement titles. Take your ID and the truck’s New York registration to that Hauppauge counter.
- My truck has never left New York; does it qualify?In FMCSA’s carrier census, 52 of Stony Brook’s 59 active carriers are intrastate, so a truck that never leaves New York is the usual case here and sells the same way.
- Will you take a rear-loader or roll-off from a Stony Brook refuse route?Seven Stony Brook carriers list garbage and refuse as cargo in FMCSA’s carrier census, and refuse trucks and roll-offs are on our list of trucks we purchase.