Holston River Quarry crushes stone roughly 6.1 miles east of Pulaski, on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s register of mines. A dump truck or tractor that hauls aggregate from a pit that close to town is often parked at the quarry yard or at the owner’s shop, so tell us which of the two and who can let us in.
Wythe Sand Co, another crushed-stone quarry on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list, lies 14.9 miles south-west, and Highland Park Quarry, a dimension-stone site, is 23.9 miles to the north-east. For a truck that hauled between these pits and job sites, photos of the body, the frame and the cab, plus the VIN, are the first things to send us.
Stone trucks in this valley often carry a long trail of scale tickets and service invoices. Keep the service records together with the title; they let us confirm the truck’s history without guessing.
Twenty-six active carriers are based in Pulaski, according to FMCSA’s carrier census. Seventeen of them list general freight, eight list logs, poles, beams and lumber, eight list machinery and large objects, and seven list motor vehicles. Whether yours is a box truck, a log truck, a lowboy tractor or a car hauler, tell us the cargo it was set up for and the trailer it pulled.
On the same federal census, 16 of those carriers run interstate, 10 stay inside Virginia, and 13 operate as private fleets hauling their own goods. A private-fleet truck may still be registered to the parent business rather than to you personally, so check whose name is on the title before we schedule a collection.
Fleet sizes here run from a handful of units to a few dozen: FMCSA’s carrier census shows the three biggest Pulaski operations with 30, 27 and 5 power units. If you are selling several trucks from one yard, list each VIN and where each one is parked.
Long runs and short runs from the New River Valley
Across Pulaski’s carriers, FMCSA’s census records 71 drivers who work beyond a 100-mile radius and 34 who stay within it. A truck that spends its weeks out of state may be sitting at a terminal or a customer’s lot when you decide to sell; give us that address rather than bringing the truck home first.
For the eight carriers that report it, the median truck covers 12,430 miles a year, per FMCSA’s carrier census. Have the current odometer reading ready when you contact us, along with the registration, so the details we work from match the truck.
FMCSA roadside inspection records cover 48 Pulaski-based trucks inspected between September 2024 and August 2026. Half of those 48 trucks were model year 2020 or newer by the inspection records’ median, and 14.6 percent had reached ten model years or more.
A Pulaski owner whose tractor was pulled in for one of those checks should hold on to the inspection sheet. Along with the registration and title, it gives us the year, make and VIN in one place and saves a round of questions.
Manufacturing, freight and building jobs in town
Of the 4,104 jobs located in Pulaski in 2023, manufacturing held 588, transportation and warehousing 343, wholesale trade 88 and construction 61, by the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts. A truck that has shuttled parts or finished goods between plants and warehouses here may be parked at a loading dock; tell us whose dock, so the pickup is cleared with them.
Twenty construction establishments appear in the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns for the Pulaski area. Dump trucks, flatbeds and service bodies from contractors are on our list; send a photo of the equipment mounted on the chassis along with the truck itself.
Farms and the Army
Cattle farms and the Radford plant
Pulaski County has 390 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, and cattle, milk and corn top the county’s list. Livestock haulers, milk trucks and grain trucks that work these farms often stay parked on the farm itself; give us the farm address and tell us whether the lane takes a rollback.
The Bureau of Transportation Statistics lists the New River Valley Mem USARC 5.6 miles east of town and the Radford Army Ammunition Plant 15.2 miles north-east. A truck that has worked contracts near either site should be moved off any controlled ground before collection, since we can only pick up where our driver can get in.
The questions we get asked in Pulaski
- Will you pick up a dump truck sitting in a stone yard on the east side of Pulaski?Holston River Quarry sits about 6.1 miles east of town on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list, and a quarry yard like that is a normal place for us to collect. Tell us who controls the gate and when someone can let our driver in.
- Can the truck stay on a Pulaski County cattle farm until you collect it?Pulaski County counts 390 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, with cattle first on its list, so farm pickups are routine here. Give us the farm’s address and a note on the lane and gate.