Base deliveries north-west of the beach
Naval Support Facility Dahlgren appears in the Bureau of Transportation Statistics list of military installations, 5.6 miles north-west of Colonial Beach. A box truck or flatbed that delivers onto a base usually ends its day parked off-post, in a yard or a driveway nearer town, so give us that street address rather than the gate it served.
Closer still, Pumpkin Neck is recorded by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics as a military installation 3.7 miles north-west. If your truck sits on leased ground out that way, tell us who controls access, and have the title and current registration in the cab so the paperwork matches the VIN on the door jamb.
Dump trucks from Walker Sand & Stone and the Rappahannock pit
WALKER SAND & STONE, a sand and gravel operation 6.1 miles south-west of town according to the Mine Safety and Health Administration, puts tandem and tri-axle dump trucks on the county roads. If yours hauled from that pit, photograph the bed, the hoist and the tarp system along with the cab and the data plate.
Twelve point three miles to the west, the Amrize Rappahannock Mine is another sand and gravel site in the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s records. A dump truck still parked at a quarry scale house can be collected there; send the site contact’s name and phone number so a pickup can be lined up with whoever runs the gate.
Tankers loading at the FREDERICKSBURG petroleum terminal
Westward 24.9 miles, at FREDERICKSBURG, stands a petroleum product terminal that the Energy Information Administration includes in its terminal list. Owners of fuel tankers and propane bobtails that load there and deliver back toward Colonial Beach can tell us which product the tank carried, and send the tank’s test and inspection dates with the photos.
If a tanker is parked near the Fredericksburg terminal rather than at home in Colonial Beach, it can stay put. Share the lot’s address and the hours someone is there to hand over keys.
Produce, lumber and freight carriers in town
General freight is the cargo type 22 of Colonial Beach’s 45 active carriers declare in FMCSA’s carrier census. Eight report fresh produce, seven farm supplies and seven logs, poles, beams and lumber, so a reefer, a feed body or a log trailer with its tractor are all ordinary trucks for this town.
Of those 45, the federal carrier census shows 19 operating interstate, 26 intrastate only, and 21 running private fleets that move their own goods. A private-fleet owner who registered the truck under a farm or business name should have that entity’s paperwork ready, since the title holder signs the sale.
Fleet sizes stay small here: per FMCSA’s census, the three biggest local operations run 11, 7 and 4 power units. Someone selling several trucks out of one yard can send every VIN in one message, and we will cover them together.
Local radius, longer trips
All 45 carriers tell FMCSA they run within 100 miles, and 37 also report trips beyond that radius. Wherever the truck finished its last load, whether at a farm in Westmoreland County or a dock up the interstate, say where it is parked now and we plan collection there.
Among 13 carriers that reported mileage to FMCSA, the median works out to 10,000 miles a year per truck. Write the odometer reading down before you contact us, along with the engine hours if the truck has a PTO or a reefer unit.
New registrations continue at a steady pace in FMCSA’s census, with three carriers added in 2024 and three more in 2025. A newer operator who financed a tractor should have the lender’s contact details ready, along with the title showing the lienholder.
Farm ground, contractors and local work
Corn leads soybeans and wheat across Westmoreland County’s 141 farms, as tallied in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture. Grain trucks and hopper trailers on those farms often sit in a barn lot between harvests; a farm truck registered on farm tags still needs its title in hand when you sell.
Twenty-seven construction establishments operate locally, per the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns, and plenty of them keep a dump body or a rollback on the lot. Contractors with a dump truck, a rollback or a stake body can send photos of the body and any attached equipment, and note whether a crane or liftgate carries its own inspection sticker.
Colonial Beach held 746 jobs in 2023 by the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts, many of them reached by trucks garaged in town. If a title went missing in a move or a change of business name, the state’s title agency issues a duplicate; start that request early and send us the VIN meanwhile.
The questions we get asked in Colonial Beach
- My tri-axle sits at Walker Sand & Stone’s pit outside Colonial Beach; does it have to come into town first?WALKER SAND & STONE is 6.1 miles south-west of town by the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s location, and we collect from the pit itself. Pass along the pit foreman’s name so the gate is open on collection day.
- I hauled corn and soybeans on Westmoreland County farm tags, so which papers go with the truck?Westmoreland County has 141 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, and many of their trucks run on farm registration. Bring the title in your name or the farm’s, plus the current registration card, and we handle the rest.
- The title for my log truck is gone; how does a Colonial Beach lumber hauler replace it?Seven Colonial Beach carriers haul logs, poles, beams and lumber in FMCSA’s carrier census, and any of them in this spot applies to the state’s title agency for a duplicate. Send us the VIN while that request is pending.
- My tanker sits at the Fredericksburg fuel terminal instead of in Colonial Beach; can you pick it up out there?Fredericksburg’s petroleum product terminal is 24.9 miles west of Colonial Beach on the Energy Information Administration’s list, and we pick the truck up where it stands. Name the terminal staff member who can hand over the keys.