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

USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture records 428 farms in Lake County, with corn, cattle and soybeans at the top of the list. A tractor or straight truck that hauls those crops and that livestock often sits on a farmyard or beside a bin site outside town, so give us the road and the nearest crossroads when you get in touch.

Grain, feed and hay is the cargo for 28 of Madison’s 57 active carriers in FMCSA’s carrier census, and farm supplies for 20. If your hopper-bottom rig or feed truck is parked between harvest runs, send photos of the trailer and the tractor together, and tell us whether the two are being sold as a pair or apart.

West Pit, a sand and gravel operation on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list, lies 13.2 miles west of Madison. A dump truck or end-dump that has worked that pit can be collected at the yard where it is kept; tell us who holds the gate key and when someone can meet us there.

South-east of town, the Mine Safety and Health Administration lists Dell Rapids West Quarry, a sand and gravel site 23.4 miles out, and Dell Rapids East Quarry, a crushed-stone quarry at 23.9 miles. If your truck hauled aggregate from either one, have the title and the current registration in hand, and note the axle setup when you describe it to us.

Thirty-nine of Madison’s carriers run private fleets, hauling their own goods, while 31 are authorised for interstate work and 26 stay intrastate, according to FMCSA’s carrier census. Whichever kind of operation you run, the paperwork we ask for is the same: the title, the registration and any service records you have kept.

The three biggest fleets in town run 66, 33 and 21 power units, by FMCSA’s carrier census figures, and that same census logs three new carriers registered in 2025 against none in 2024. A business selling several units at once can send one list of VINs, and we will work through each truck from it.

Machinery and large objects appear as cargo for 16 local carriers in FMCSA’s carrier census, and general freight for 25. If yours is a lowboy tractor or a flatbed setup, photograph the deck, the hitch and the cab so we can see the whole rig before we talk.

Across 21 local carriers that report it, FMCSA’s carrier census puts the median at 20,000 miles per truck a year. FMCSA’s carrier census also shows 95 drivers working within 100 miles and 159 beyond that radius, so your truck may be at home in Madison or parked somewhere along a longer route when you call.

FMCSA roadside inspection records covering 34 Madison trucks, inspected between September 2024 and August 2026, give a median model year of 2017.5, with 47 percent ten or more years old. Whatever year yours is, read us the VIN and the odometer figure first, and the rest of our questions follow from those.

Manufacturing holds 1,005 of Madison’s 4,116 jobs, or 24.4 percent, in the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts for 2023, with wholesale trade at 131 and construction at 78. A box truck or tractor that served a plant or a distributor in town is one we purchase; tell us whether it is parked at the business or at your home.

County Business Patterns from the Census Bureau counts 30 construction establishments, and the LEHD job counts add 50 jobs in agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting. For a contractor’s dump truck or a farm truck kept in a shed, a clear photo of each side and of the title is enough to start.

The National Bridge Inventory lists 19 bridges here, none load-posted and none with clearance under 14 feet. Even so, tell us about any narrow lane, soft field approach or locked gate between the road and your truck, so the collection is planned around it.

If the truck sits at a farm, a quarry yard or a shop outside Madison, you do not need to move it into town. Give us the address and a contact who can be there, and we come to where the truck is parked.

• Our corn and bean truck stays on a Lake County farmstead. Is collection possible from that farmstead near Madison?Lake County holds 428 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, and many trucks stay on them between seasons. We collect from the farm itself; send the address and a note on how to reach the yard.
• Can a dump truck be collected at the West Pit yard west of Madison?West Pit sits 13.2 miles west of Madison on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list, and a truck kept at that yard can be collected there. Tell us who can let us in and when.
• Before calling, what does a Madison trucker pull together?Madison’s 57 carriers in FMCSA’s carrier census range from one-truck owners to a 66-unit fleet, and every seller here starts the same way: the title, the registration, the VIN, the odometer reading and a few photos of the truck.