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

Rocky Gap Quarry, a crushed-stone operation the Mine Safety and Health Administration lists 17.1 miles west of Narrows. A dump truck or tri-axle that hauls from that pit is often parked near the scale house between loads, so tell us whether it lives at the quarry or at your house before we schedule a collection.

The Mine Safety and Health Administration also lists Holston River Quarry, a crushed-stone site 18.7 miles south-east of town, and Highland Park Quarry, which cuts dimension stone 24.5 miles to the east. Flatbeds that carry cut slabs and dump bodies that carry aggregate are different trucks with different paperwork, so a photo of the body, the data plate and the VIN plate tells us which one you have.

If your truck spent its working life on haul roads at any of these three pits, gather the scale tickets or service invoices you kept. They are not required, yet they let us match the truck to the work it did without a long phone call.

The Bureau of Transportation Statistics places the Radford Army Ammunition Plant 17.7 miles south-east of Narrows and the New River Valley Mem USARC a mile farther along at 18.7. Contractors’ box trucks, flatbeds and service units that ran gate-to-gate deliveries for either installation are trucks we buy.

A truck that entered a military post may carry a base decal or a contractor placard on the glass. Leave it where it is and mention it when you send photos; the registration and title are what we need, and a sticker on the windshield changes nothing about the sale.

FMCSA’s carrier census shows 17 active motor carriers based in Narrows, and general freight is the most common cargo listed, at eight of them. Seven list machinery and large objects; lowboys and step-decks that move equipment between job sites fall under that heading.

Five Narrows carriers tell the federal safety agency they haul logs, poles, beams and lumber, and three carry farm supplies. A log truck with a knuckleboom loader is sold as one unit, so photograph the loader controls and the bunks along with the tractor and its door sticker.

Of those 17, FMCSA’s census lists 11 interstate operators and six that stay inside Virginia, and 11 are private fleets hauling their own goods. If yours is a private fleet unit, the cab card still carries the USDOT number we will ask for, so have it close at hand when you call.

The two biggest fleets registered in Narrows each run nine power units, according to FMCSA filings; one has seven drivers on the roster and the other has just one, while the third-largest runs three trucks with three drivers. Selling one truck out of a nine-unit fleet works the same way as selling a single tractor: one title, one VIN, one collection.

Seven local carriers reported their annual mileage to the federal carrier census, and the median comes to 8,000 miles per truck. A Narrows seller can simply read the dash and the door-jamb VIN to us on the first call.

Two new carriers registered in Narrows during 2025 under FMCSA’s records, after none in 2024. If you are one of those two and are already thinking about changing equipment, the process is the same for a recent purchase as for a truck you have had for years.

Around Narrows, Giles County holds 356 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, and cattle, corn and cut Christmas trees lead the list. Grain trucks, livestock haulers and the flatbeds that carry baled trees down off the ridges each season all come up for sale from these operations.

A farm truck may be registered under farm plates rather than commercial ones. Bring whichever registration it carries, along with the title, and tell us if the truck sits at a barn or a field gate rather than a paved yard, so the driver we send arrives with the right equipment.

The Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns counts nine construction establishments for the area, and the LEHD job counts put 268 jobs in Narrows in 2023. Dump trucks and service bodies from those builders sit alongside the farm fleet in the same parking areas around town.

Virginia titles are issued by the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles through its DMV Customer Service Centers and DMV Select offices. For a Narrows seller the closest is DMV Select - Pearisburg, at 130 North Main Street, Pearisburg 24134, which the department lists 4.1 miles from town.

If the title is lost, or still names a lienholder, start the replacement at that Pearisburg counter before a collection date is set. Bring the registration, your ID and any lien release letter, and send us a photo of whatever paperwork you already hold so we can see what is missing.

• Can a tri-axle that sits at a crushed-stone pit outside Narrows be collected on site?Rocky Gap Quarry sits 17.1 miles west and Holston River Quarry 18.7 miles south-east, per the Mine Safety and Health Administration, and we collect from sites like those. Give us the gate address and the name of whoever can let our driver in.
• Which DMV office closest to Narrows handles a missing title?DMV Select - Pearisburg, at 130 North Main Street in Pearisburg, is 4.1 miles from town according to the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles, and it handles title replacements. Start there, then send us a photo of the new title once it arrives.
• I run a log truck with a knuckleboom out of Narrows; is that something you take?Five Narrows carriers list logs and lumber and seven list machinery with FMCSA, and their trucks are the kind we buy. Send photos of the tractor, the trailer or loader, and the VIN plate.
• Can I sell a farm truck from a cattle or Christmas tree operation?Cattle and cut Christmas trees are among the top products on Giles County’s 356 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, and trucks from those farms are welcome. Have the title and whatever registration the truck carries, farm plates included.