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

The Bureau of Transportation Statistics places the port of Port Arthur 2.3 miles west of town and the Port of Port Arthur roll-on/roll-off terminal 3.7 miles to the south-west. A tractor that shuttles between those two gates is usually parked close to the water when the work stops, so tell us the yard or lot it sits in and who holds the key.

That same federal agency also lists Port Arthur as a strategic seaport, 3.8 miles south-west of the city. If your truck has hauled loads through the port gates, have the title in your name and the current registration in hand before you call, and photograph the cab, frame and fifth wheel in daylight.

Two petroleum product terminals sit 6.3 miles out, according to the Energy Information Administration: Port Neches to the north-west and GT Gulfway to the south-west. Tank-pulling day cabs from those sites are often kept on a contractor lot near the fence line, and we collect from there, so give us a contact who can open the gate.

Farther up toward Beaumont, the Beaumont I liquid bulk terminal lies 12.1 miles north-west on Bureau of Transportation Statistics listings. If your tractor crossed between that terminal and the Port Arthur plants, keep any site entry records or inspection reports you have; they travel with the truck and answer questions before we ask them.

The North American Rail Network, kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, shows two Port Arthur rail yards at 4.2 and 5.2 miles south-west. Drayage tractors that meet trains there tend to stay parked near the yard road, and the pickup can be planned at that spot rather than in town.

For a truck that worked those rail yards, send the VIN first, then the registration. If the Texas title has gone missing, the state’s title agency handles a replacement; start that request before the sale so the paperwork is ready when we arrive.

FMCSA’s carrier census counts 331 active carriers based in Port Arthur, with 217 of them listing general freight. Forty-seven list machinery and large objects, 43 list metal sheets, coils and rolls, and 40 list logs, poles, beams and lumber, per the same census, so flatbed and heavy-haul tractors are part of the local mix we buy.

Of those 331 carriers, the FMCSA census shows 250 holding intrastate authority, 81 interstate, and 72 operating as private fleets. A truck from a private fleet can come to us with the company as the titled owner; have someone with signing authority ready to sign the title over.

Driver radius records in that census show 392 drivers working within 100 miles and 252 beyond it. Among the 77 carriers reporting mileage, the FMCSA figure for median miles per truck is 25,000 a year. Fleets here range up to 40 power units with 3 drivers, 23 with 14, and 16 with 16 on the federal census, and we can collect one tractor or several from the same yard.

Port Arthur carriers had 228 trucks stopped between 2024-09-04 and 2026-08-26, and FMCSA roadside inspection records give 2016 as the median model year among them. Slightly over half of those inspected tractors, 51.75 percent by the FMCSA roadside count, carried a model year a decade or more back.

Whatever the model year, the paperwork list stays the same: title, registration, and any service or inspection records you kept. FMCSA added 24 new Port Arthur carriers in 2024 and 21 in 2025, and an owner who started out recently sells the same way as one who has run a tractor here for years.

LEHD job counts from the Census Bureau put 20,902 jobs in Port Arthur in 2023, with 3,569 in construction, 3,459 in manufacturing, 767 in transportation and warehousing, 567 in wholesale trade and 120 in mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction. County Business Patterns from the Census Bureau lists 51 construction establishments, so dump trucks and lowboy tractors parked on job sites are trucks we pick up where they sit.

Jefferson County had 612 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, with cattle, rice and honey at the top. A grain or livestock truck kept on a county farm is collected at the farm gate, and the National Bridge Inventory records 84 bridges around the city with 2 load-posted and none under 14 feet, so tell us the route in if one of those posted bridges is on it.

• My tractor is parked by the roll-on/roll-off terminal; does it have to come into town?The Bureau of Transportation Statistics lists the Port of Port Arthur roll-on/roll-off terminal 3.7 miles south-west of the city, and we come to the truck there. Tell us whose lot it is on so the collection can be arranged with them.
• My truck sits at a terminal near Port Neches; will you pick it up inside the site?We collect it there: the Energy Information Administration places the Port Neches petroleum product terminal 6.3 miles north-west of Port Arthur; give us the gate contact and the truck’s location inside the site.
• Is there a low bridge to watch for on the way to my yard?Among the 84 bridges the National Bridge Inventory records around Port Arthur, none is under 14 feet and 2 are load-posted, so mention it if your yard is reached across one of those posted bridges.