Stone faces near the village
Crushed stone on both sides of the village
The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists Oakwood Plant, a crushed-stone quarry, 3.6 miles north-east of Union Springs, and the Seneca Stone Corporation quarry 5 miles to the west. A dump truck or tri-axle that loads at either face may well be parked at the quarry when you call us, so give us the site name and gate location and we will arrange collection there rather than ask you to move it.
Farther out, Davis Mine, a sand and gravel operation, lies 19.7 miles east of the village and Cayuga Mine, an industrial-mineral site, 22.9 miles south-east, according to the Mine Safety and Health Administration. If your truck splits its work between the lakeside pits and those eastern operations, tell us where it sleeps at night; that is the address we plan around.
Kendaia and Geneva yards across the lake
Kendaia rail yard sits 13.3 miles south-west of Union Springs and Geneva’s yard 14.4 miles due west, per the North American Rail Network kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. A tractor that shuttles to those yards may be staged west of the village between runs, so tell us where it is parked.
When you contact us about a truck that works the yards, send the VIN, a photo of the registration and a few shots of the cab, frame and fifth wheel. With those in hand we can line the unit up with its paperwork ahead of any trip toward Kendaia or Geneva.
Union Springs motor carriers
Intrastate haulers, farm fleets and a twenty-unit operation
Of the 42 active motor carriers that FMCSA’s carrier census places in Union Springs, a group of 33 keeps its trucks on New York roads and only 9 run interstate. The same FMCSA census marks 32 of the 42 as private fleets hauling their own goods. A truck from one of those may be titled to a farm or a contractor, so check whose name is on the title.
General freight is the listed cargo for 17 of those carriers in the federal census, with grain, feed and hay close behind at 16 and machinery or large objects at 12. The three biggest local fleets in that census run 20, 15 and 8 power units, so if you are clearing several trucks at once, list each VIN and where each one is kept.
Of the 15 carriers that reported mileage to FMCSA, the median truck logged 7,352 miles a year. That is a plain figure, not a judgment; just have the current odometer reading ready when we ask for it.
Milk trucks, grain haulers and farm supply runs
Around Union Springs, Cayuga County holds 747 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, and milk, corn and cattle lead the county’s output. Bulk milk tankers, grain trailers and livestock haulers tied to those farms are trucks we buy, and many sit in a barn lot or machine shed when the owner calls.
Ten local carriers list farm supplies as cargo in FMCSA’s census. If the truck is registered to the farm itself, the person named on the title signs it over; tell us early if that is a family member or a farm partnership so the right signature is ready.
The DMV desk up the road in Auburn
The New York State Department of Motor Vehicles handles title replacement, and its nearest office to the village is the Auburn office at 160 Genesee St, Auburn, 8.2 miles away according to the DMV’s own office list. If you cannot find your title, start the replacement there or through the DMV’s title page before we schedule a pickup.
Bring the registration and photo ID to the Auburn counter, and if a lender once held the truck, a lien release too. Once the replacement title is in hand, send us a photo of the front so we can confirm the name and VIN match the truck.
Jobs, contractors and state truck rules
Union Springs held 346 jobs in 2023 under the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts, while a half-dozen construction establishments, 6 in all, show up in County Business Patterns. Contractor trucks from those firms, from flatbeds to dump bodies, can be collected from a job site or a yard in the village.
New York has adopted the Advanced Clean Trucks (ACT) Regulation and the Heavy-Duty Low NOx Omnibus (HD Omnibus) Regulation; for both, enforcement is paused, according to the state’s published heavy-duty vehicle notices. Union Springs owners selling a diesel truck today do not need any added emissions paperwork for us beyond the title and registration.
The questions we get asked in Union Springs
- Will you collect a dump truck sitting at Oakwood Plant or the Seneca Stone quarry?Oakwood Plant is 3.6 miles north-east of the village and the Seneca Stone quarry 5 miles west, per the Mine Safety and Health Administration, and we collect from sites like those. Name the quarry and the person at the scale house who can let us in.
- My truck title is missing; who issues a new one for this corner of Cayuga County?The New York State Department of Motor Vehicles office at 160 Genesee St in Auburn, 8.2 miles from Union Springs by the DMV’s listing, handles replacement titles. Carry your registration and a photo ID to the Auburn counter.
- Can a dairy or grain farm near Union Springs sell a truck titled in the farm’s name?Cayuga County’s 747 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture run heavily to milk, corn and cattle, and trucks titled to a farm or farm partnership are ones we buy. The partner or family member named on that farm title is the one who signs.
- Do the state clean-truck rules affect selling my truck?Union Springs sellers face paused enforcement under both New York’s Advanced Clean Trucks (ACT) Regulation and its Heavy-Duty Low NOx Omnibus (HD Omnibus) Regulation, so the title and registration are what we need.