Hopper and stock trailer
Grain hoppers and livestock trailers out of Mobridge
Seventeen of the Mobridge carriers in FMCSA’s carrier census mark grain, feed and hay as a cargo they carry, and sixteen mark livestock. A tractor that has spent harvest pulling a hopper and the rest of the year moving cattle is exactly the kind of truck we expect to hear about here, so tell us both jobs when you write.
Ten operators in town also check commodities dry bulk on their federal registration, and fourteen list general freight, according to the same FMCSA census. If your truck switched between trailers, say which ones it pulled and whether any of them go with the sale, so we know whether we are collecting a tractor alone or a full rig.
Around the town, USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 258 farms in Walworth County, with corn, soybeans and wheat as the leading crops. Farm trucks that only see the road at planting and harvest still qualify; send a photo of the registration and the VIN plate along with a few shots of the cab and frame.
Where Mobridge drivers spend their working day
Mobridge carriers report 112 drivers who work inside a hundred-mile radius against 24 who go farther, on FMCSA’s carrier census. Put another way, better than four in five local drivers stay near home, so the truck you want to sell is most likely parked on a farm, at a shop or in a yard not far from town, and that is where we come to get it.
For the eleven local carriers that report mileage, the median sits at 45,000 miles a truck each year in the FMCSA filings. Read the odometer before you message us; that figure and the VIN together open every Mobridge pickup we arrange.
From one-truck farms to the biggest local fleet
The biggest operation based in Mobridge runs 93 power units with 68 drivers, followed by one at 20 trucks and 15 drivers and another at 8 trucks and 9 drivers, as FMCSA’s carrier census records them. Whether you are selling one truck or several from a fleet that size, list each unit’s VIN and where it is parked, and we can plan the collection as one trip or several.
Seventeen of the town’s carriers run interstate and fifteen stay within South Dakota, while seventeen describe themselves as private fleets hauling their own goods, per the federal census of carriers. A private farm or business fleet sells the same way a for-hire one does: the titles in the owner’s name, and a person who can sign for the company.
Sixty-eight percent of those trucks were ten or more model years old when inspected.
Older model years are welcome, and a 2007 tractor is as much a part of this trade as a newer one. What helps is the paperwork kept with it: inspection reports from those roadside stops, service records from your shop, and a note of anything fitted to the truck after it left the factory.
Selby
The treasurer in Selby and your truck title
Titles in this state are handled by the South Dakota Department of Revenue, Motor Vehicles Division, through county treasurer offices. For Mobridge owners, the South Dakota Department of Revenue, Motor Vehicles Division lists that office as the Walworth County Treasurer at 4303 4th Ave., Selby, 57472, about 19.6 miles from town.
If the title is lost, or still shows a lender’s lien that has been released, the Selby treasurer’s office is where a replacement title starts. Sort it before the pickup if you can, and if you cannot, tell us where it stands so we can say what is needed.
Contractors and wholesale
Builders, wholesalers and newer outfits
Builders and contractors run 19 establishments around Mobridge, by the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns. Dump trucks, flatbeds and service bodies from that work are part of what we collect, so send photos of the body and any equipment mounted on it as well as the cab.
Of the 1,292 jobs located in Mobridge in 2023, wholesale trade accounts for 52, or about 4 percent, on the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts. FMCSA’s carrier census adds two operators that registered in 2025 after none in 2024; a carrier that started recently and is changing direction can sell a truck the same way a long-running one does.
The questions we get asked in Mobridge
- The title to my Mobridge truck has gone missing; which office replaces it?The Walworth County Treasurer at 4303 4th Ave. in Selby, about 19.6 miles from Mobridge, is the county treasurer office that works for the South Dakota Department of Revenue, Motor Vehicles Division. Apply for the duplicate in Selby, then tell us the application date so the Mobridge collection can be lined up behind it.
- The truck is a grain truck parked on a farm outside town. Do I have to haul it in?With 258 farms counted in Walworth County by USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, plenty of trucks here sit on farm ground, and we collect from where yours is parked. Give us the address and tell us whether the yard is reachable in wet weather.
- I have a 2007 tractor. Do you take trucks that age?In FMCSA roadside inspection records, 2007 is the median model year for trucks from Mobridge carriers, and 68 percent were ten or more years old. A truck that age is common here; send the VIN, the odometer reading and a few photos.