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

Two sand and gravel operations lie east of Craigsville in Mine Safety and Health Administration records: one at Stuarts Draft, 15.7 miles out to the east, and Shenandoah Asphalt, Inc t/a Shenandoah Stone, 16.4 miles to the south-east. Tri-axle dumps, tandem dumps and transfer rigs that have hauled sand and gravel out of either pit are trucks we buy from the owners who drove them.

A dump truck that finished its last season at one of those pits is often still parked near Stuarts Draft rather than back in Craigsville. Tell us which pit it sits closest to, whether it is on the operation’s own lot or on a contractor’s yard beside it, and the name of the person who opens the gate in the morning, and we collect the truck from that spot.

Before you write to us about a gravel truck, pull together the Virginia registration card, the title in your name, and whatever hoist or body service receipts you kept. Photograph the bed from above with the tailgate open, the hoist cylinder, each side of the frame rails and the cab interior; those four views cover most of what we ask about a sand and gravel truck.

North-east of Craigsville, the crushed-stone quarry the Mine Safety and Health Administration lists as Augusta Plant lies 18.8 miles from town. A quarry of that kind is worked by loaders, crushers and screens that move on lowboys, so tractors with a heavy-haul history and the tri-axle dumps that carry stone off the site are both equipment we purchase in Craigsville.

If the tractor you are selling pulled a lowboy to Augusta Plant and the trailer is going with it, say so at the start and list the trailer’s axle count and whether its own title is in hand. If the trailer stays with you, we only need the tractor’s VIN, odometer reading and a photo of the fifth wheel to begin.

Stone trucks that worked the quarry run tend to be kept at home in Craigsville between contracts, on a gravel lane or a field edge. Give us the street address, say whether a car or a trailer has to be moved first, and tell us if the keys stay with a neighbour; none of that stops a sale, it only changes how we plan the pickup.

Out from Craigsville, USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 1,460 farms across Augusta County, and the same census names cattle, milk and corn as the county’s leading products. Cattle pots, gooseneck-equipped medium-duty trucks, milk tankers and grain trucks with hoists are the kinds of farm equipment that come up for sale here.

A livestock truck or grain truck is usually sold from the farm it worked on, and that is where we collect it. When you contact us, tell us whether the truck sits in a barn, on the lane or in a back field, whether the ground is firm enough for a rollback to reach it, and who on the farm should be told before we arrive.

For a farm truck, send the title, the registration card and any invoices for the body, the hoist or the tank, along with photos of the box or deck, the tires and the dash with the odometer showing. If the truck has been on farm plates, say so; it changes nothing about whether we buy it, but it helps us read the registration.

Titles in Virginia come from the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles, and the office that serves Craigsville is the DMV Customer Service Center in Staunton, 17.6 miles from town, at 17 First Street, Staunton, 24401, as the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles lists it. The Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles handles replacement titles through its DMV Customer Service Centers and DMV Select offices, so a lost title for a truck in Craigsville is replaced there.

If the title is simply misplaced, check the glovebox, the farm office and the folder the truck’s insurance lives in before you apply for a replacement; a duplicate title and the original both in circulation only slow the sale down. Once you have the replacement in hand, send us a photo of the front and back and the sale proceeds on that document.

Where the title is in a family member’s name or in the name of a farm partnership, tell us that when you first write, and bring the paperwork that shows who can sign for it. We will tell you which signatures the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles expects on the transfer before anyone makes the trip to Staunton.

Not every truck in Craigsville hauls stone or cattle. Day cabs, sleepers and box trucks that worked the roads through the valley are parked beside houses and on small lots in town, and the owner of any of them can sell to us without moving the truck anywhere. The three sites the Mine Safety and Health Administration lists near Craigsville all sit between 15.7 and 18.8 miles away, so a tractor kept in town is as easy for us to reach as one left at a pit.

For a tractor, the VIN, the odometer reading, the engine make and the transmission type answer most of our first questions. Add photos of the cab from each corner, the sleeper if it has one, the frame behind the cab and the rear tires, and tell us whether the truck sits on pavement or on grass, which decides how we load it.

Owners who have left Craigsville but still own a truck there can sell it from wherever they live now. Give us the address where the truck is parked, the name and number of someone nearby who can meet us, and a photo of the title, and the rest is handled by phone and email.

• My dump truck is sitting at the Stuarts Draft sand and gravel pit, not in Craigsville, and I would rather not haul it home before the sale.The Stuarts Draft sand and gravel operation sits 15.7 miles east of Craigsville in Mine Safety and Health Administration records, and we collect the truck there. Tell us whose lot it is on and who to notify, and the pickup is arranged with them rather than with you.
• If the title for my Craigsville truck is lost, which Virginia office issues the replacement, and how far is it?The DMV Customer Service Center at 17 First Street, Staunton, 24401, is 17.6 miles from Craigsville on the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles list of locations, and replacement titles are issued through the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles’ Customer Service Centers and DMV Select offices. Make the application at the Staunton office, and once the replacement title arrives photograph both sides for us.
• Do you buy cattle trucks and grain trucks from farms outside Craigsville?Augusta County’s 1,460 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture raise cattle, milk and corn above everything else, and the cattle pots, milk tankers and hoist-equipped grain trucks that work those farms are trucks we buy. Tell us where on the farm the truck is kept and whether a rollback can reach it.
• The truck is coupled to a lowboy that used to go to Augusta Plant. Can I sell the trailer too?Augusta Plant is the crushed-stone quarry 18.8 miles north-east of Craigsville in Mine Safety and Health Administration records, and lowboys that served it can be sold with the tractor or kept. Tell us which you want, and if the trailer goes, send its title and axle count with the tractor’s VIN.