Sand pits and quarries along the road toward Slatersville
The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists Material Sand & Stone Corp, a sand and gravel operation 6.1 miles east of Chepachet, and the Slatersville Plant, another sand and gravel site 6.6 miles to the north-east. A dump truck or roll-off that has run loads out of either pit can be collected where it is parked between jobs, so send us the yard or driveway address along with the VIN.
Farther out, Cumberland Quarry Corp. sits 10.8 miles east and Portable 7, a crushed-stone quarry, is 10.9 miles south-east, both on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s register. If your tri-axle or tractor hauled stone from those faces, photograph the body, the hoist and the cab from both sides, and tell us which site it served so our questions start in the right place.
Thirty-nine registered operators around the village
Chepachet has 39 active carriers on FMCSA’s carrier census, and 27 of them run private fleets that haul their own goods rather than freight for hire. An owner who keeps one truck for a farm, a landscaping business or a building trade can sell it the same way a for-hire carrier would: registration, title and the keys are what we ask you to have on hand.
General freight is listed by 16 of those carriers, machinery and large objects by 13, farm supplies by 6 and grain, feed or hay by 5, according to the same federal census. A lowboy tractor, a rollback or a stake-body truck from any of those lines fits what we collect, and a note on what it usually carried helps us arrange the right equipment for loading.
Interstate authority is held by 26 local operators and intrastate-only service by 13, per FMCSA’s registrations, while one new carrier registered in 2025 and two in 2024. If your authority is lapsing or you are winding a company down, keep your USDOT number handy so we can match the truck to its registration.
Short runs, mostly inside Rhode Island and its neighbours
Drivers working within a hundred-mile radius number 64 against 35 who go farther, the FMCSA carrier census shows for Chepachet operators. For a Chepachet rig that returns to the village after each job, tell us the street where it is kept and we will plan the collection there.
Write down the current odometer reading before you call; with the VIN, it is the first thing we will ask for.
The three biggest local fleets on FMCSA’s census run 24, 14 and 9 power units, with 24, 12 and 4 drivers respectively. An operator retiring several units at once can list them together, and we will set up a single visit for the whole yard.
Thirty Chepachet-registered trucks were checked at the roadside from October 2024 to August 2026, and FMCSA roadside inspection records put their median model year at 2016. Around 47 percent of those inspected trucks were ten or more model years old, by the same FMCSA roadside inspection records.
Whatever the year of your truck, an inspection report or a service log gives us its history in writing. Keep those papers with the title and photograph the data plate on the door jamb so the model year and VIN are clear.
New London Avenue and a missing certificate
Rhode Island titles are handled by the Division of Motor Vehicles, and duplicates go through its Research and Title Office at DMV headquarters, 600 New London Avenue, Cranston 02920, about 15 miles from Chepachet. If the title has gone missing, start the application with the Division of Motor Vehicles before you set a pickup date.
If a lender’s name still appears on the certificate, ask that lender for its release letter and take it to Cranston with the title application.
Chepachet tankers and the Providence waterfront
The North American Rail Network, kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, places Providence rail yards 13.6 miles east of Chepachet. A tractor that has shuttled freight to those yards can be listed with a short note on the trailers it pulled.
Sprague Energy’s liquid bulk terminal, 15 miles east per the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, sits beside a Providence petroleum product terminal that the Energy Information Administration lists at the same distance. Fuel delivery trucks and tankers from those runs fit what we collect; tell us the tank capacity and the compartment count when you send photos.
Building trades, farms and the state’s truck rules
Construction accounts for 57 of the 952 jobs in Chepachet, about 6 percent, by the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts for 2023, and County Business Patterns lists 46 construction establishments. Contractors parking dump trucks, box trucks or flatbeds behind a shop can sell one unit or several.
Across Providence County, USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture records 362 farms, with cattle, hogs and cut Christmas trees among the main products. A livestock hauler, a farm flatbed or a grain truck kept in a barn near Chepachet can be loaded from the farm itself.
Rhode Island has adopted Advanced Clean Trucks under its Low-Emission and Zero Emission Vehicle Programs and also keeps the Heavy-Duty Engine and Vehicle Omnibus Regulation in force. For a Chepachet owner, these rules leave unchanged what you need to sell an existing truck here: the title, the registration and the keys.
The questions we get asked in Chepachet
- Will you come to Chepachet for a truck parked at a gravel pit?Chepachet has sand and gravel operations 6.1 and 6.6 miles away on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list, and we collect from yards like those as well as from homes and shops. Give us the address and describe the access road into the site.
- Can a Chepachet business that hauls its own goods sell a truck?Twenty-seven of Chepachet’s 39 active carriers on FMCSA’s carrier census run private fleets, and a single truck from any of them is welcome. Keep the title and registration together with the keys for the day we arrive.
- What details should a Chepachet seller gather before getting in touch?Chepachet trucks inspected at the roadside had a median model year of 2016 in FMCSA records, and we start every listing the same way: the VIN, the odometer reading and photos of the cab, body and data plate.