General freight, car hauling and refuse in Falls Church
Of the 190 carriers FMCSA’s carrier census counts in Falls Church, 93 list general freight, so box trucks, straight trucks and tractors that pull dry vans make up much of what operates from addresses in the city. If yours ran general freight, have the title and current registration together before you call, and tell us whether it pulled a trailer of its own.
Thirty carriers here declare motor vehicles as cargo and 20 declare driveaway or towaway work, according to the same FMCSA census. Car carriers, rollbacks and tow units fit that description. When you contact us about one, mention the deck or wheel-lift setup and send a photo of it alongside the cab.
Refuse is on the list too: FMCSA records 17 Falls Church carriers hauling garbage, refuse and trash. Roll-off, rear-loader and front-loader trucks all belong on what we purchase, and photos of the body, the hoist or packer and the plate help us identify the unit before we arrange collection.
Where Falls Church trucks travel
Per FMCSA’s carrier census, 120 carriers registered in Falls Church operate interstate and 70 stay intrastate, while 64 run private fleets that carry their own goods rather than freight for hire. A truck from an interstate operation may be parked well outside the city when you decide to sell, so give us the address where it sits now and we will plan the pickup there.
Most Falls Church drivers stay close: carriers told FMCSA that 1,764 of their drivers work inside a 100-mile radius, against 210 who travel past it. For a seller, that usually means the truck comes home at night to a yard or street nearby; tell us whether someone can meet us with the keys or whether it sits behind a locked gate.
Fifty-seven carriers here gave FMCSA annual mileage, and the median truck among them covered 16,050 miles in a year. Read the odometer and the VIN off the truck before you get in touch; those two figures are the first things we will ask for.
Falls Church trucks pulled over for roadside checks
Roadside inspectors stopped 37 trucks belonging to Falls Church carriers from September 2024 to August 2026, and FMCSA’s inspection records put the median of those at model year 2017. A 2017 tractor and a much older straight truck are both trucks we buy, so give us the model year exactly as the title shows it.
Just under half of those 37 trucks, 45.95 percent by FMCSA’s roadside inspection records, carried a model year ten or more years back. Whatever the year of yours, a copy of its most recent inspection report and any service records you kept make a useful addition to the photos you send.
Companies that started recently
FMCSA’s census shows 22 new carriers registering in Falls Church in 2025, after 7 in 2024. If you set up your authority recently and are now selling the truck you started with, keep the title, the registration and the bill of sale from when you bought it in one folder.
A new company often has its truck titled in the business name rather than a personal one. Tell us whose name is on the title when you first contact us, and have someone who can sign for the company available when the paperwork is completed.
Fleet sizes in the city
The three largest fleets based in Falls Church run 73, 58 and 51 power units, on FMCSA’s carrier census figures. If you manage a fleet that size and are retiring several units at once, send a list of VINs and where each truck is parked so the collection can be planned as one job.
The fleet with 58 power units lists 80 drivers with FMCSA, while the one with 51 lists 32. Whether you have one truck or dozens, the same documents apply to each unit: title, registration and the photos of the cab, frame and tires.
Nearby work sites
Terminals and quarries within reach
The Energy Information Administration lists the Fairfax and Fairfax Blending petroleum product terminals 5.8 miles west of Falls Church. Fuel tankers that load there come within what we purchase; note the tank capacity and the compartment count when you describe one.
About 6.2 miles to the south-east sits Norfolk Southern TBT, a liquid bulk terminal on the Bureau of Transportation Statistics list. If your tanker or tractor worked that terminal and is parked on a site there, tell us who controls access so the pickup can be cleared in advance.
Two crushed-stone quarries appear in Mine Safety and Health Administration records nearby: Graham-Virginia, 14.4 miles south-west, and Chantilly Crushed Stone Incorporated, 17.3 miles west. Dump trucks and tractors with end-dump trailers that ran aggregate from those pits are trucks we buy; say which quarry it served and send a photo of the bed.
Builders and contractors
Construction accounts for 720 jobs located in Falls Church, 6.7 percent of 10,691 in 2023, in the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts. Contractors here run dump trucks, flatbeds and service bodies, and any of them can be sold where it is parked on a job site or at the shop.
Inside the city line, the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns places 56 construction establishments. If your truck belongs to one of those firms, gather the title, the registration and photos of any crane, lift or tool body fitted to it before you reach out.
The questions we get asked in Falls Church
- My dump truck hauled stone from the Chantilly quarry and is still parked out there. Must I tow it back to Falls Church first, or can it stay by the Chantilly pit?Chantilly Crushed Stone Incorporated sits 17.3 miles west of Falls Church in Mine Safety and Health Administration records, and we collect from where the truck is parked. Send the quarry-side address and a contact at Chantilly who can let our driver onto the lot.
- Do you buy tow trucks and car carriers from Falls Church?FMCSA’s carrier census lists 30 Falls Church carriers hauling motor vehicles and 20 doing driveaway or towaway work, and their rollbacks, tow units and car haulers are trucks we purchase. Send photos of the deck or wheel lift along with the title.
- My fuel tanker loads at the Fairfax terminals. Which details should go in my first message?The Fairfax petroleum terminals are 5.8 miles west of the city on Energy Information Administration listings, and for a tanker from there we start with the VIN, the odometer reading, the tank capacity and photos of the barrel and cab.