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

According to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Norfolk Southern TBT, a liquid bulk terminal, lies 4.1 miles south-east of Columbus, and Transflo CSXT, another liquid bulk site, is 6.2 miles to the south. If your tractor has been pulling tank trailers between those two transload points, tell us which one it ran from and whether the trailer goes with it or stays behind.

A tanker unit parked inside a terminal fence needs someone who can let us in. Give us the gate contact and the hours that the yard is staffed, and send pictures of the cab, the frame rails and the fifth wheel so we know the setup before we arrive on the south side.

The North American Rail Network, kept by the Federal Railroad Administration with the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, places the BANNON yard 4.5 miles south-east of the city and the PARSONS yard 5.5 miles due south. Drayage tractors that shuttle boxes and loads off those two yards are the kind of equipment we buy here.

If a day cab of yours is still sitting near BANNON or PARSONS, leave it there. Send the VIN, the cab configuration and the street address, and we arrange collection where the truck stands rather than asking you to move it across Franklin County.

Two petroleum product terminals, COLUMBUS SOUTH at 5.9 miles and COLUMBUS EAST at 6.1 miles, both sit west of the city on the Energy Information Administration’s list. Fuel haulers loading at either one should keep any hazmat endorsement paperwork and tank test certificates together with the title when they reach out.

Six point two miles south, the Mine Safety and Health Administration records the Columbus Plant, a crushed-stone quarry. Dump trucks and end-dump tractors that hauled aggregate out of that pit are welcome; tell us the axle setup and include a photo of the body so we can plan the right equipment for pickup.

East of town, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics also lists Defense Supply Center Columbus, a military installation 4.6 miles out. Should your truck be parked near a secured site like that, give us the nearest public address where it can be reached.

FMCSA’s carrier census counts 5,850 active carriers based in Columbus, with 4,674 of them listing general freight, 582 hauling refrigerated food and 567 carrying paper products. Whether yours is a reefer tractor or a dry-van unit, have the title in the registered owner’s name and the cab card on hand when you contact us.

Of those Columbus operators, 3,496 run interstate and 2,335 stay intrastate, while 908 are private fleets, per the same FMCSA census. Interstate operators should have the IRP cab card and any IFTA decals ready, since those registrations get closed out once the tractor leaves your authority.

New authority keeps arriving: FMCSA recorded 494 new carriers here in 2024 and 658 in 2025. If you started your own outfit in those years and are now selling the one tractor it owns, the title, the lien release if there was a loan, and your USDOT number are what we ask for first.

FMCSA roadside inspection records covering 7,760 trucks inspected between August 2024 and August 2026 put the median model year at 2019, with 25.8 percent of them ten or more years old. Tell us the year, make and model up front; that one line answers most of our first questions.

Among 1,901 carriers reporting mileage to the FMCSA census, the median is 48,000 miles per truck a year. Read the odometer before you call and photograph the dash so the figure on file matches what we see at collection.

The same FMCSA census shows 15,530 drivers working within 100 miles and 20,749 working beyond that radius. Long-haul sleepers often sit at a terminal or a driver’s home far from Columbus, so tell us where the truck is parked today, not where it is based.

Transportation and warehousing account for 29,370 of the 559,751 jobs in the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts for 2023, with manufacturing at 24,906, construction at 21,167 and wholesale trade at 19,779. Box trucks, straight trucks and tractors from any of those trades are on our list.

County Business Patterns from the Census Bureau show 1,172 construction establishments and 133 warehousing establishments. A contractor selling a dump truck or flatbed can have it collected straight from the job yard; send the yard address and a contact name.

Out in the county, USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture lists 372 farms in Franklin County, with soybeans, corn and potted flowering plants as the leading products. Grain trucks and farm-plated units count too; bring the farm registration along with the title.

The Federal Highway Administration’s National Bridge Inventory lists 494 bridges around Columbus, 3 of them load-posted and 7 under 14 feet of clearance. If your truck is parked past one of those, mention it so our driver routes around it.

The National Bridge Inventory’s lowest structure here is SR 315 over a park access road, at 9 ft 6 in. A tall box or sleeper tucked behind a crossing like that needs a note on how it got in, which helps us plan the way out.

• My tank tractor is parked near the Transflo CSXT terminal south of Columbus. Does it have to come off that lot before you collect it?It can stay put: the Bureau of Transportation Statistics puts Transflo CSXT 6.2 miles south of the city, and we collect from there. Give us the gate contact and the hours the site is open.
• I run a one-truck operation registered with FMCSA in 2025. Which documents should I gather for my single tractor?The title in your name, the lien release if the tractor was financed, the cab card and your USDOT number. FMCSA logged 658 new Columbus carriers that year, and those four items are what each one needs to sell a truck.
• Do you buy dump trucks that haul from the Columbus Plant quarry?We do, and the Mine Safety and Health Administration records that crushed-stone quarry 6.2 miles south of Columbus; send photos of the body and chassis and tell us where the truck is parked.