Pits and a mill
Quarries and a mill around Gordonsville
The Sansom Mine & Mill, an industrial-mineral operation the Mine Safety and Health Administration lists 5.7 miles south-east of town, is the closest extraction site to Gordonsville. A dump truck or tractor that has shuttled loads out of that mill is likely parked within a few miles of Main Street, and we collect it where it sits; send the address and a note on how a truck gets in and out of the lot.
Out to the north-west, the Mine Safety and Health Administration lists the Greene Plant crushed-stone quarry 12.4 miles away and the Charlottesville Plant quarry 14.2 miles south-west. Aggregate haulers working between Gordonsville and those two pits usually carry a vocational body, so photograph the bed, the hoist and the cab, and keep any scale tickets or service logs with the title.
North-east toward Orange, MSHA records two dimension-stone sites, Granite Managers at 16.3 miles and the Jet Mist Quarry at 17 miles. Flatbeds and heavy-spec tractors that move cut stone blocks should be described in detail when you reach us: axle setup, trailer type and whether the truck is loaded at the quarry today.
Lumber and vehicle loads
Log loads, car carriers and box freight from town
FMCSA’s carrier census shows 17 active motor carriers based in Gordonsville, with 9 of them hauling general freight and 5 each moving logs, poles, beams and lumber or motor vehicles. If your truck is a log truck, a car hauler or a box van from one of these small outfits, tell us which of those loads it carried and have the registration card ready alongside the title.
Of those 17 operators, the federal census records 7 running interstate and 10 staying inside Virginia, while 8 are private fleets carrying their own goods. A truck that has only worked in-state still sells to us the same way; we need the VIN, the title holder’s name and clear photos of all four sides.
Fleet sizes here stay small: the two biggest Gordonsville operations on the FMCSA register run 7 power units apiece with 8 drivers, and the next one runs 4 units. An owner-operator or a family fleet selling one or two units from a shop yard is the usual case, and we schedule the pickup around whoever has the keys.
Manufacturing jobs in a small town
Gordonsville counted 645 jobs in 2023 according to the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts, and 179 of those, or 27.8 percent, were in manufacturing. Straight trucks and tractors tied to plant shipping often have a maintenance file kept by the shipping office; ask for a copy before the sale so it travels with the truck.
Construction firms number 23 and warehousing outfits 4 in the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns for the area. Dump trucks, flatbeds and box trucks from contractors and storage operators are the kind of equipment we look at, and a contractor selling a unit off a job site can give us that site’s address instead of moving the truck.
Orange County growers
Farm hauling in the hills near town
Gordonsville’s surrounding farmland adds up to 430 farms in Orange County, per USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, with corn, soybeans and cattle as the leading products. Grain trucks, livestock haulers and the tractors that pull farm-supply trailers from those operations often sit in a barn lot or field edge, so let us know the gate access and whether the ground is firm.
Four of the town’s registered carriers list farm supplies as cargo on FMCSA’s census. If your truck delivered feed, seed or fertilizer to Orange County growers, a farm-plate registration or an ag exemption on the paperwork is useful for us to see up front.
Rails and a base
East Charlottesville yard and Rivanna Station to the west
Heading west 17.4 miles, the East Charlottesville rail yard appears on the North American Rail Network kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Day cabs that have run transload work between that yard and Gordonsville warehouses fit what we purchase; include the tractor’s VIN and a photo of the fifth wheel.
Rivanna Station, a military installation the Bureau of Transportation Statistics places 12.4 miles west, is on the same side of town. A truck stored out along the roads toward Charlottesville is still within our reach for collection; give us the nearest cross street and any gate hours that apply.
The DMV Select counter at Orange
A lost or missing title is replaced through the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles, and the nearest office for Gordonsville sellers is DMV Select - Orange (Pro Auto Body Inc.) at 12403 James Madison Hwy., Orange, 22960, 7.8 miles from town. That location is one of the agency’s DMV Customer Service Centers and DMV Select offices, so you can request the duplicate there before we arrange the pickup.
When you visit the Orange office on James Madison Hwy., carry the truck’s VIN, a photo ID and any lien release. If a bank or finance company still holds the title, tell us the lender’s name at the start, and we can work through the payoff paperwork with you.
The questions we get asked in Gordonsville
- Will you take a quarry dump truck from the Greene or Charlottesville plants?Dump trucks working the Greene Plant, the Charlottesville Plant and the Sansom Mine & Mill south-east of Gordonsville are among the trucks we purchase; send photos of the body and cab and the address where it is parked.
- I lost the title to my Gordonsville tractor; where is the nearest place to request another?DMV Select - Orange (Pro Auto Body Inc.), 7.8 miles away at 12403 James Madison Hwy., Orange, handles title requests for the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles.
- Will you pick up a log truck parked on a farm outside town?Orange County holds 430 farms on USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, and FMCSA’s carrier census lists 5 Gordonsville carriers hauling logs and lumber; we collect from farms and yards as long as you describe the access.