Rail and supply
Two rail yards and a supply depot north of town
The North American Rail Network, kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, places the Bellwood rail yard 1 mile north of town and the DuPont Richmond Lead yard 3.3 miles north. If your truck works around those tracks, give us the lot address and the name of whoever holds the keys.
Def Gen Supply Center, a military installation the Bureau of Transportation Statistics locates 1.2 miles north-west of Bellwood, has its own gate rules. If your truck sits inside a fenced area near the depot, tell us before collection so the visit can be cleared with the person who controls access.
Fuel tankers from the blending terminal gates
Two petroleum product terminals appear in Energy Information Administration listings close to Bellwood: the Richmond Blending Terminal, 2.8 miles north, and Richmond 1, 3.8 miles north. Tractors that pull fuel tankers out of those gates are trucks we purchase; send the VIN, the registration card and a photo of the data plate with your first message.
Hazmat haulers usually carry tank test reports and annual inspection sheets in the cab. Keep those with the tractor for the collection driver, since they let us match the paperwork to the unit without a second phone call.
A river port ramp and a stone pit south-west
According to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, the Port of Virginia’s Richmond Marine Terminal runs both a roll-on/roll-off berth and a rail intermodal ramp 3.8 miles north of Bellwood. Container chassis tractors and day cabs working that ramp can be collected from a drayage lot near the terminal rather than brought home first.
South-west of town, the Mine Safety and Health Administration lists the Dale Plant, a crushed-stone quarry 5.1 miles away. Dump trucks and tri-axles hauling stone from that pit are welcome; photograph the body, the hoist and the cab, and tell us whether the truck sits at the quarry or at your yard.
Of the 130 active carriers FMCSA’s carrier census places in Bellwood, 66 stay inside Virginia, 64 cross state lines and 44 haul their own goods as private fleets. In that same census, general freight is carried by 88 of them, machinery and large objects by 25, motor vehicles by 19 and household goods by 17.
Car haulers, lowboy tractors, moving vans and dry-van rigs are all trucks we buy here. One fleet registered in town runs 96 power units with 119 drivers, per that same FMCSA census, while others hold 31 and 20 units, so we handle a single owner-operator rig or several units from one yard.
New registrations continue too: FMCSA records 20 carriers added in 2024 and 12 in 2025. If your authority is newly opened and the title still shows a lender, bring the lien release or the lender’s contact details when you reach out.
Depot jobs, Chesterfield contractors and horse farms
In 2023 the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts put 3,340 jobs in Bellwood, and 1,067 of them, 31.9 percent, were in transportation and warehousing. The same LEHD figures give construction 398 jobs, manufacturing 275 and wholesale trade 167; box trucks, flatbeds and yard tractors from any of those trades are welcome.
Bellwood’s area holds 113 construction firms against just 6 warehousing ones, going by the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns. A contractor selling a dump truck or a stake-bed off a Chesterfield job site can leave it on the site; just give us a gate code or a foreman’s number.
Out in Chesterfield County, USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture tallies 162 farms, with equine, soybeans and corn heading the list. Horse-trailer pickups, grain trucks and farm flatbeds count as commercial trucks to us too.
Across 283 Bellwood-based trucks stopped between August 2024 and August 2026, FMCSA roadside inspection records show a median model year of 2022, with 15.9 percent built ten or more years before. Whatever the model year on your title, list it with the VIN and the engine make so the unit can be identified from the paperwork.
Among the 35 carriers reporting mileage to FMCSA, the median comes to 48,231 miles per truck a year, and the census shows 235 drivers working within 100 miles against 367 going beyond. Long-haul trucks may be parked away from Bellwood when you decide to sell; tell us where the truck is and we collect it there.
The questions we get asked in Bellwood
- The title for my Chesterfield County dump truck has gone missing; where do I get a new one?Virginia’s title agency handles a lost title for a truck registered in Chesterfield County. Start that request when you contact us and send the VIN so we can work through the rest alongside it.
- My tri-axle hauls crushed stone out of the Dale Plant; is that a truck you take?The Dale Plant, a crushed-stone quarry the Mine Safety and Health Administration lists 5.1 miles south-west of Bellwood, keeps dump trucks busy, and those are trucks we purchase. Send photos of the body and cab with the title details.