Fairfax County
Nine thousand acres, and more people working on it than at the Pentagon
The node attached to this place is the installation itself: an Army post of almost 9,000 acres, active, and not a joint base. Its coordinate is taken from the centroid of the installation polygon rather than from a gate, and it reverse-geocodes to Fairfax County.
It is the largest employer in Fairfax County, with nearly twice as many workers as the Pentagon. That is worth stating carefully, because it is a comparison between two rows in this same work rather than a superlative reached for — the Pentagon is a node in this data too, up the road in Arlington. Measured that way, the largest concentration of military employment in this region is not the Pentagon.
The tenant list is why. The Defense Logistics Agency headquarters sits here, along with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency and Army Cyber Command; the Intelligence and Security Command has been headquartered here since 1989.
What that means for trucks
The traffic a post this size generates is local, and the record says so
Those agencies do not move freight, but keeping nine thousand acres running does. The row sits 0.86 miles from the centroid of the place it is named for, inside it rather than merely nearest to it, and of the 47 military rows this work carries in Fairfax County and the rest of the state, 33 join that way. The service radius recorded against it is 50 miles, and the reason given is explicit: base support and contractor traffic is local.
That is the shape of the work here, and it is different from a quarry or a rail yard. It is construction and grounds contracts, waste and materials runs, utilities work, and the fleets that service a population the size of a small town. Short legs, many stops, and trucks that accumulate hours rather than miles.
It is worth being clear that 50 miles is an estimated constant applied to installations across this work rather than anything measured about this one, and the source flags it as estimated. We are repeating the flag rather than dropping it.
Virginia paperwork
Three salvage tests in one chapter, and a rebuilt test that runs inside out
None of that changes your paperwork, which is fixed by the code rather than by who you hauled for, and Virginia writes it unusually. Va. Code § 46.2-1600 sets three salvage thresholds where most states set one. A late model vehicle is salvage where estimated repair would exceed its actual cash value less its current salvage value. A recovered stolen vehicle acquired by an insurer is salvage above seventy-five per cent of actual cash value. A vehicle is nonrepairable above ninety per cent of its value before the damage.
Subtracting the salvage value makes the base smaller, so that first test is easier to trip rather than harder — the opposite of what comparing the bare percentages suggests. The rebuilt test then runs inside out: it measures the repair cost excluding damage to the engine, transmission or drive axle assembly, the exact inverse of Oklahoma, which counts only the suspension, motor, transmission, frame and structural components.
Late model is the current model year and the five preceding, or any vehicle whose value before the damage met the floor the section names, so an older truck outside that limb sits outside the salvage regime altogether. The repair figure also excludes towing, storage, a temporary replacement and diminished-value compensation — storage and diminished value being two items no other state on file names.
Weight is set at § 46.2-1122 and § 46.2-1127 — 20,000 lb on a single axle, 34,000 lb on a tandem and 80,000 lb gross — and the interstate limits are the same as the highway limits, so there is no inversion here to catch a driver out at the ramp.
What we buy here
The offer does not sort by truck type
Those rules apply to whatever you drive, and the offer does not sort by type either. Dump trucks and tandems off the construction and grounds contracts that Fairfax County runs on, including the work that keeps 9,000 acres of post going. Day cabs and road tractors on the runs into the district. Flatbeds, box trucks, straight trucks and rollbacks out of the trades, plus service bodies and the crew pickups that go with them.
Whatever you drive, the offer doesn’t change. We buy all of them.
Getting it to us is the part that flexes. We can come to you and drive it away, or come and tow it; we can also buy it remotely and arrange the tow with nobody visiting at all, and you are welcome to bring it here instead. If the truck is behind a gate, remote is usually simpler for everyone.
We buy complete trucks. If the engine, transmission, doors, rear ends, drive shafts, wheels or anything under the hood have been removed, we can’t buy it. Small things — a missing bumper — are fine.
Straight answers
The questions we get asked in Fort Belvoir
- Does it have to run?No. It does have to be complete — if the engine, transmission, doors, rear ends, drive shafts, wheels or anything under the hood have been removed, we can’t buy it. Rust is not a disqualifier.
- The truck is on the installation. Is that a problem?Not for us, though it can be for access. Buying it remotely and arranging the tow is often the cleanest route in that case — you handle the pass or move it to the fence line, we handle everything after that. The 50 miles of local contractor work around this post is exactly the traffic we see most of.
- It never left Fairfax County.Then it will show hours rather than mileage, which is what short-leg contract work does to a truck. That is normal here and it is not something we hold against it.
- How am I paid?Cash or electronic payment. That is the whole list.
- What about the title?We need one unless the truck is old enough that it never had one. A lost title has a counter replacement; where none exists there is a bonded route.
Why people call
None of those questions is why the phone rings. Retiring. A medical that went the wrong way. A contract that finished and was not renewed. A dump truck standing out a Fairfax County winter at the edge of a yard within 0.86 miles of a post of almost 9,000 acres, insurance going out on something that is not turning a wheel.
Most of those aren’t happy reasons, and we don’t treat them like they are. Somebody wants a straight answer and the truck gone. That’s what we’re here for.
Virginia title rules read from the Code of Virginia in August 2026 — verify with Virginia DMV before acting on them. Salvage, nonrepairable and rebuilt definitions at Va. Code § 46.2-1600; weight limits at § 46.2-1122 and § 46.2-1127. The installation figures are as carried in this work’s node record: an almost 9,000-acre active Army post, coordinate taken from the polygon centroid rather than a gate, county reverse-geocoded. The employment comparison with the Pentagon is between two rows in this same data. The 50-mile service radius is an estimated constant applied across installations, flagged as estimated in the source, and is not a measurement of this post. No bridge or weight measurement was made for this node and none is stated. Whether Virginia has any seasonal or frost provision was not determined for this node’s research batch and none is stated here. Information, not legal advice.