Wallops gate runs
Eight miles from the Wallops Island installation
Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story - Wallops Island lies 8 miles south of Captains Cove, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics list of military installations. A box truck, flatbed or tractor that has delivered to the gate there is a truck we buy, and it can stay parked wherever you keep it on the shore while we arrange collection.
If your truck carried loads onto the Wallops base, keep any gate passes and delivery slips in the folder with the title. Photograph the cab, the bed or fifth wheel and the VIN plate, and send those along with a note on what the truck hauled down that southbound stretch.
Grain on the shore
Corn, soybean and wheat hauling around Captains Cove
Around Captains Cove the fields grow corn, soybeans and wheat, the three leading crops for Accomack County in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture. Grain trucks, dump trailers and the tractors that pull them out of those fields at harvest are all ones we collect, straight from the farm lane if that is where yours is parked.
Accomack County counted 254 farms in that 2022 USDA census. If a farm truck has sat in a shed or field edge since the last soybean or wheat cutting, give us the address and say whether a trailer can back up to it; we plan the pickup around that spot.
A DMV Select counter nineteen miles from the cove
Duplicate titles for Captains Cove trucks come from the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles, issued at its DMV Customer Service Centers and DMV Select offices. For Captains Cove owners, the closest listed is DMV Select - Parksley, at 18444 Dunne Avenue, Parksley, 23421, which the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles places 19.2 miles from town.
Start that replacement before you call us if the title is missing, and bring your registration and photo ID to the Parksley counter. A title in the name of a farm or business should match the name on the registration, so check both papers against each other first.
Folder for the shore
Papers to pull together in Captains Cove
Slip the title, this year’s Virginia registration and the shop invoices from Eastern Shore mechanics into one folder. Add a clear photo of the odometer and the VIN plate on your Eastern Shore truck, taken in daylight.
Tell us how the truck is set up: day cab or sleeper, axle count, body type, and whether it pulled a grain trailer, a flatbed or nothing at all. Those details shape the questions we ask and the equipment we bring to Captains Cove.
Pickup on the shore
Collecting from a cove lot, a farm or a yard near Parksley
We come to the truck, whether it sits in a driveway in Captains Cove, in a barn lot inland, or in a yard on the way toward Parksley. Give us the street address or the farm road and mention any soft ground, gates or low branches a tow rig would meet.
If someone else will be at the truck on collection day, put their name and phone number in your message. The title should be signed by the owner named on it, so arrange that signature ahead of time when the owner lives off the shore.
The questions we get asked in Captains Cove
- Do you buy trucks that served the Wallops Island base?Wallops Island’s installation, 8 miles south on the Bureau of Transportation Statistics listing, is close enough that plenty of local trucks have run loads there, and we buy them. Send photos and the VIN, plus any delivery records you kept.
- My Captains Cove flatbed’s title went missing in a move; which counter on the Eastern Shore prints a duplicate?DMV Select - Parksley, at 18444 Dunne Avenue, is the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles office the agency lists 19.2 miles from town. Bring your registration and ID and request a replacement title there.
- Can you collect a corn or wheat truck from an Accomack field near Captains Cove?Accomack County’s 254 farms, counted in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, are where many of these trucks are parked, and we collect from the field or shed. Tell us the farm road and how a trailer can reach the truck.