South on the Doswell road
Two crushed-stone quarries, one each side of the lake
Seven and a third miles south of the lake, the Mine Safety and Health Administration lists DOSWELL QUARRY as a crushed-stone operation. Tri-axle dumps and end-dump tractors that have hauled stone out of that pit are trucks we buy, and we collect them where they sit, whether that is a gravel pad at home or a lot near the quarry road.
Up north, Spotsylvania Plant appears in Mine Safety and Health Administration records as a second crushed-stone quarry, 15.9 miles from Lake Caroline. If your dump truck has split its loads between Doswell and Spotsylvania, tell us which bed and hoist it carries and send a photo of the plate on the door jamb, so we know the exact configuration before we arrange collection.
Sand and gravel pits off to the east
Caroline Plant, ten miles east and recorded by the Mine Safety and Health Administration as a sand and gravel operation, is the nearer of two such pits on that side of town. A single-axle dump or a roll-off that has worked there can be picked up from a home driveway at the lake as easily as from a contractor’s yard in Bowling Green.
Farther out, the Amrize Mattaponi Plant sits 16.4 miles east on MSHA’s list, also digging sand and gravel. Before you call, find the registration card, note the hour meter if the truck has a PTO-driven pump or hoist, and take pictures of all four sides plus the dash with the ignition on.
Southwest of the lake
Montpelier and the mineral haul
Out to the south-west, 18.3 miles from Lake Caroline, the Mine Safety and Health Administration places Montpelier Plant, an industrial-mineral mine. Bulk trailers and the tractors pulling them in that trade are on our list, and a tractor sold without its trailer is fine too; just tell us which of the two you are selling.
Have the title in the name that appears on the registration, and if a lender was ever recorded on it, keep the lien release letter with the paperwork so it travels with the truck when we load it.
Terminal and post
Tankers to Fredericksburg, trucks near Fort Walker
The Energy Information Administration lists a petroleum product terminal at FREDERICKSBURG, roughly 21 miles north of the lake. A fuel tanker or a straight truck with a delivery tank that loads there can be sold through us; send the tank’s inspection stickers and the most recent test paperwork along with the photos.
North-east of town, about sixteen miles out, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics records Fort Walker as a military installation. If you hauled to the post or own a former government truck, the title or the release document you received with it is what we will ask to see first.
Harvest haulers parked on lake-country farmland
Around Lake Caroline, farm ground counts for a lot: USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture records 214 farms in Caroline County, with corn, soybeans and wheat as the leading crops. Grain trucks with hoist beds and tractors that pull hopper trailers at harvest are welcome, including ones that spend most of the year parked in a barn or a field lane.
Tell us where on the farm the truck stands and whether a lowboy or rollback can get to it after rain, so we send the right equipment. Farm-plated trucks still need their title, so look it out before the harvest gear gets moved around.
A missing title, ten miles away in Bowling Green
A lost or misplaced title is replaced by the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles, and a nearby outlet is DMV Select - Caroline, 212 North Main Street, Bowling Green, 22427, about 10.3 miles from the lake. Take your registration and photo ID there to apply for the replacement.
That office is one of the DMV Customer Service Centers and DMV Select offices the Virginia agency lists for title work. Once the duplicate is in hand, you can sign it over to us at collection, at the lake or wherever the truck is parked.
The questions we get asked in Lake Caroline
- My tri-axle runs stone out of Doswell every week. Would you buy a tri-axle like that one?DOSWELL QUARRY, a crushed-stone pit 7.3 miles south per the Mine Safety and Health Administration, is exactly the sort of site those trucks serve, and we buy them. Text us the VIN, a few pictures and the street or farm where it is kept.
- Which Bowling Green office reissues a missing Virginia title for a Lake Caroline owner?DMV Select - Caroline at 212 North Main Street in Bowling Green, 10.3 miles away, handles replacement titles for the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles. Carry the registration card and a driver’s license to the counter on North Main.
- Will you collect a grain truck parked on a farm?Caroline County’s 214 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture grow mostly corn, soybeans and wheat, and their trucks are ones we collect where they are parked, field lane or barn included.