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Bismarck · Burleigh County · North Dakota

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

We buy all types of trucks from heavy to light duty

Sell your semi truck for cash in Bismarck. We buy all commercial trucks — sleeper trucks, day cabs, dump trucks, flatbeds and grain hauls.

Day cabs, dumps, grain hauls and flatbeds, anywhere in Burleigh County — whatever shape it’s in, as long as it’s all there. We come to you or buy it remotely and arrange the tow, handle the title, and pay at pickup.

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How it works

Five steps. One buyer. Deal done.

  1. 1
    Fill out the form or give us a call
    Either one works — a real person answers.
  2. 2
    Tell us about the truck
    Year, make, model, mileage, and how it runs.
  3. 3
    Take photos of the truck inside and out. If it's running take a video of the engine running.
    Phone pictures are fine.
  4. 4
    We agree on a price
    It's an estimate until we see the truck in person.
  5. 5
    We inspect, we pay, we take the title and the truck
    Cash or electronic, your choice. Deal done.
Title is required.
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Why sell to Big Ugly Truck?

Because you want the truck gone — not another listing, another no-show, or another "maybe."

We’re a direct buyer, not a broker. You deal with us. We buy semi trucks (our specialty) plus box, dump, utility, vocational, dually, and pickup — as long as it’s complete. Clear title required. All 50 states. We come to you.

The pitch in three beats:

1. Straight deal — no auction fees, no middleman cut, no endless tire-kickers.

2. Honest process — photos to start, offer you can take or leave, pay at pickup.

3. We handle the hard part — pickup and title work so you’re not chasing buyers across town.

Ugly ones welcome. Pretty ones too. If the title’s in hand, we’re ready to talk.

Call/text (404) 453-1427 or request an offer on the site.

We buy trucks in Bismarck

There are 4 trucking companies registered in Bismarck, and 144 of them are one-truck owner-operators. That's a lot of trucks working the same roads, and every one of them gets to the point where it's worth more sold than fixed. If that's where you are, you don't need a listing or an auction lot. Send us the photos, take the offer or leave it, and we come to Bismarck and pay at pickup.

144 owner-operators run out of Bismarck with one truck to their name. When that truck is done — the engine's tired, the emissions system is eating the profit, or you're just done driving — it's still worth money. We buy it direct, no broker, no consignment.

138 companies in Bismarck run their own trucks instead of hiring it out. When a unit comes off the rotation, most of them trade it in and take whatever the dealer says. We'll make an offer on the whole truck instead, and we'll buy the whole batch if you're turning over the fleet.

Center Mine is 27 miles from Bismarck, pulling coal (lignite). That's dump trucks, mixers, end dumps and water trucks, and they get used hard. We buy them with the miles on them and the bed rusted through. Clear title, and we'll take it off the site.

Bismarck is cattle country — 709 farms in Burleigh County, and every one of them moves product on trucks. Grain haulers, hopper trucks, cattle haulers, flatbeds for hay. If yours has seen its last harvest, send us a few photos.

385 construction outfits work out of Bismarck, and construction trucks live hard lives. Dump trucks, mixers, service bodies, lowboys, water trucks — we buy them with the dents and the hydraulic leaks. You'd have to fix them to sell them anywhere else; you don't have to fix them to sell to us.

How fast do you pay?

At pickup. Cash or electronic, your choice.

Do you come to Bismarck?

Yes. We come to you anywhere in North Dakota.

What if the truck doesn't start?

Send photos and tell us what it does. We buy trucks that are worth repairing.

What if there's a lien?

Tell us who holds it. We pay the lienholder and you get the difference at the same time.

What if I lost the title?

Get a duplicate from North Dakota first. We'll wait; we can't close without it.

Do you buy more than one?

Yes. Fleets, pairs, a truck and a trailer together.

Fill out the form or call. We come to Bismarck, we pay at pickup, and we take the truck and the title the same day.

Burleigh County

Two Guard sites, a yard over the river, and then a long way

What is on the record here is short. A Guard complex about 2.6 miles north of the middle of town and an Army Reserve centre about 3.3 miles south-west — and no quarry, no mill and no rail yard inside the city at all. The nearest yard is about 9 miles west at Mandan, over the river in Morton County.

After that the map is genuinely empty until the coal. The Center Mine is about 30 miles north-west in Oliver County with 182 people on it, which is by a long way the largest workforce within forty miles, and a second, much smaller Center operation about 37 miles north-west has 1.

So one employer dominates the freight for thirty miles

That single mine changes what the road work looks like. The Center Mine runs 182 people on a surface operation, and the trucks feeding and clearing a site that size are doing 30-mile legs on state and county roads rather than city miles — out through Oliver County, not through town.

It also changes what we lead with when somebody calls from out that way. On a 30-mile leg we frequently buy the truck remotely and arrange the tow, and that is the realistic answer rather than the polite one. Coming out to drive it away, coming out to tow it, or you bringing it in all stay real options; the distance decides which makes sense.

North Dakota weight law

Three ceilings, and the third one is a local decision

Those legs run under a rule with three tiers where most states on file have two, and the statute makes the split by excluding the interstate from its own scope. Under N.D. Cent. Code § 39-12-05.3 the gross weight ceiling is 105,500 lb on state highways and 80,000 lb on all other highways — unless local authorities designate otherwise, for up to 105,500 lb. So the third tier is a decision taken by the road’s own authority, not by the state.

Underneath it: 20,000 lb on a single axle, 10,000 lb wheel load, 34,000 lb tandem, and 48,000 lb for three or more axles. Directors and local authorities may permit farmers and motor carriers to exceed the limits by ten per cent up to that 105,500 lb ceiling, and the highway patrol issues those permits. The interstate is governed separately under § 39-12-05, which our files record as not read.

N.D. Cent. Code § 39-12-05.3. Whether the three-or-more-axle figure carries a bridge formula on top was NOT determined. Information, not legal advice, and only as current as the date the rule file was last verified.

North Dakota seasons

The thaw levels come with axle weights attached

And on top of those three ceilings sits a seasonal regime that is unusually specific. Under § 39-12-03 the state posts named restriction levels on the state highway system — Legal Weight, then 8-Ton, 7-Ton, 6-Ton and 5-Ton — and unlike most seasonal rules on file these carry actual axle weights rather than a vague warning. At the 8-Ton level that is 16,000 lb on a single axle and 32,000 lb on a tandem.

The 7-, 6- and 5-Ton figures are not in our files and must not be worked out by scaling, because the relationship between the level name and the permitted weight is not established as linear. If you are hauling in the spring, read the posted level rather than doing the arithmetic.

N.D. Cent. Code § 39-12-03, administered by NDDOT on the state highway system. Only the 8-Ton figures were captured. Information, not legal advice.

What we buy here

The river work and the mine runs use different iron, and whatever you drive, the offer doesn’t change — we buy all of them. Dump trucks and aggregate haulers on the coal and overburden work north-west. Grain hauls and farm trucks off the country around. Day cabs and road tractors on the runs west through Mandan, flatbeds, box trucks, service bodies and the pickups that follow the rest of it around.

Most of it works either inside about 9 miles or out at 30 — the Mandan yard at one end and the Center Mine at the other.

We buy complete trucks. If the engine, transmission, doors, rear ends, drive shafts, wheels or anything under the hood have been removed, we can’t buy it. Small things — a missing bumper — are fine.

Straight answers

The questions we get asked in Bismarck

  • Does it have to run?No. It does have to be complete, though — if the engine, transmission, doors, rear ends, drive shafts, wheels or anything under the hood have been removed, we can’t buy it. A missing bumper is fine. A missing driveline is not.
  • Do you actually come out this far?Often we do not need to. We buy it remotely and arrange the tow, and where the nearest yard is 9 miles west at Mandan and the Center Mine is 30 miles north-west, that is frequently the straightforward answer rather than a last resort. We also come to you and drive it away, come to you and tow it, or you drive it to us.
  • What if I can’t find the title?We need a title — unless the truck is old enough that it never had one. If it’s lost, there’s a counter replacement. If there was never one to lose, there’s a bonded route. Neither stops a sale.
  • There’s still money owed on it. Now what?That’s a payoff and a lien release, and it’s the slow part rather than the hard part. Tell us up front and we’ll work it into the paperwork.
  • How do you pay?Cash or electronic payment, whichever you would rather have.
  • The road is posted for the thaw. Does that stop you?No. It changes how the truck leaves, not whether we buy it. The posted levels here carry real axle weights — 16,000 lb on a single axle at the 8-Ton level — so it is a thing to work around rather than a surprise.

Why people call

Beyond the trucks themselves, the reasons repeat. A DOT physical didn’t go the way it used to. A hauling contract that filled the season for nine years went to somebody else. The truck is just sitting beside a shed, and every month it sits is another month of insurance on something that isn’t turning a wheel.

The lots over toward the Mandan yard 9 miles west in Morton County, and out along the road to the Center Mine 30 miles north-west in Oliver County, hold a fair number of trucks in exactly that position.

Most of those aren’t happy reasons, and we don’t treat them like they are. Somebody wants a straight answer and the truck gone by the end of the week. That’s what we’re here for.

Sell your truck in Bismarck

A quiet river town, a coal mine thirty miles north-west, and three different weight ceilings depending on whose road you are on. We come to you and drive it away, we come to you and tow it, we buy it remotely and arrange the tow, or you drive it to us. Tell us what you’ve got and we’ll take it from there.

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