Product terminals north and south
Terminals between Steubenville and Wellsville
The Energy Information Administration places the Steubenville petroleum product terminal 3.7 miles south of Toronto, and lists a second one, Wellsville - Asphalt, 9.8 miles north. If your tractor pulled product out of either gate, we meet it wherever it is parked between them. Pass along the lot address plus the keyholder’s phone number.
Two liquid bulk terminals appear in the Bureau of Transportation Statistics listings north of town, one at 9.7 miles and another at 11.4 miles. A tanker tractor that ran between those docks and the Steubenville terminal should come with its title, current registration and any tank or hazmat inspection paperwork you kept. Send photos of the cab, the frame and the plates along with that paperwork.
Yards south of town
Two rail yards below Toronto on the river
Heading downriver from Toronto, Steubenville’s rail yard comes up at 8.1 miles and Gould’s at 9.8, both on the North American Rail Network that the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics keep. A day cab that shuttled loads to either yard can be collected from the yard lot or from your own place in Toronto.
If your truck is sitting in a yard lot rather than your own driveway, tell us who controls the gate. We plan the collection around that person, and the yard does not need to change anything for us.
Toronto’s plant jobs and building trades
Of the 1,881 Toronto jobs in the Census Bureau’s 2023 LEHD job counts, manufacturing held 936, just under half at 49.8 percent. Flatbeds, roll-offs and tractors that serve plant work make up a share of the trucks around town, and any of them is a truck we will look at.
Construction accounted for 268 of those jobs, or 14.2 percent, in the same LEHD figures, and County Business Patterns from the Census Bureau records 14 construction establishments. Dump trucks and equipment haulers from that trade can be sold from the job site itself; give us the site address and a time someone can meet us there.
Freight, machinery and dry bulk outfits in town
FMCSA’s carrier census shows 29 active carriers based in Toronto: 16 run interstate, 13 stay intrastate and 19 are private fleets hauling their own goods. The same census lists general freight for 17 of them, machinery and large objects for 13, dry bulk commodities for 8 and utility work for 7.
Drivers here mostly stay near home, with 68 reported working within 100 miles and 10 going beyond, per FMCSA’s carrier census. The three biggest local fleets in that census run 15, 8 and 6 power units, so a seller with one truck or a small group of them is the usual case, and we buy either.
For the 7 carriers that reported mileage, FMCSA’s census gives a median of 14,435 miles per truck. Note the odometer reading when you contact us; it is one of the first things we ask for, along with the VIN.
Clearances, corn and shale
Bridges, farms and the shale pit
Toronto’s 7 bridges in the Federal Highway Administration’s National Bridge Inventory carry no load postings, and not one of them clears under 14 feet. A tall tractor or a loaded flatbed can be collected from town without planning a detour around a low span.
USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture records 541 farms in Jefferson County, with corn, soybeans and horses as the top products. A grain truck or livestock hauler parked on one of those farms can stay put; we come to it, and the title in your name plus the registration is what we need to see.
Further out, the Mine Safety and Health Administration lists the Wellsville Facility, a mineral processing plant 9.7 miles north-west, and Shale Pit 002, an industrial-mineral mine 20.7 miles north-west. Dump trucks that have hauled out of either belong on the same list as the rest; tell us where they are parked now.
Getting a Toronto truck’s papers together
A Toronto owner with a missing title should ask Ohio’s title agency for a replacement before we schedule collection. The title has to be in hand when the truck changes owners.
Keep service records, registration and any inspection reports together with the title. If the truck hauled for one of the 19 private fleets in FMCSA’s carrier census, send the company’s own maintenance log along with the photos.
The questions we get asked in Toronto
- Our tanker still sits by the Steubenville fuel terminal; does it have to come up to Toronto first?The Energy Information Administration places that terminal 3.7 miles south of Toronto, and we collect the truck where it sits. Send us the lot address and a contact who can let us in.
- Is clearance a problem for a high-cab tractor leaving Toronto?The National Bridge Inventory lists 7 bridges in Toronto, none load-posted and none with less than 14 feet of clearance, so a high cab can leave town by the usual roads.
- I run a small construction outfit with a couple of dump trucks. Do you buy from outfits that size?Toronto has 14 construction establishments on County Business Patterns from the Census Bureau, and most sellers here are small operators. Call us with the VINs and where the trucks are parked.
- My farm truck has sat on a Jefferson County farm for a while. Is a pickup from a cornfield lane possible?Jefferson County has 541 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, and we pick up from farm lanes as readily as from yards. Keep the title and registration on hand and describe the lane or barn where the truck sits.