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

The North American Rail Network, kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, places the Roanoke yard 1.2 miles west of the city and the South Roanoke yard 1.3 miles south. If your tractor shuttles freight to and from either yard, it is probably parked on a lot near the tracks when you call, and we can collect it there rather than have you move it across town.

West of downtown, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics lists Associated Asphalt as a liquid bulk terminal 1.6 miles out, and the Energy Information Administration puts the ROANOKE petroleum product terminal at 1.7 miles in the same direction. A tank tractor that loads at those racks can be sold from the terminal lot; send us the VIN, a photo of the data plate and the name of whoever controls gate access.

On the east side, Norfolk Southern TBT appears in Bureau of Transportation Statistics listings as a liquid bulk terminal 1.8 miles away, while the ROANOKE 1 petroleum product terminal sits 1.9 miles east on Energy Information Administration records. If the truck you are selling hauled from these east-side racks, keep any loading tickets or site permits with the title; those papers show which trailers and routes the tractor served.

Roanoke Quarry, a crushed-stone operation on Mine Safety and Health Administration rolls, lies 4.4 miles south of the city, and the Starkey Lime Plant is listed by the same agency 5.7 miles to the south-west. Dump trucks and tri-axles that run between those pits and job sites often stay parked at the quarry or a contractor yard nearby; give us that address and we plan the pickup around the site’s hours.

For a quarry truck, photograph the body, the hoist, the tag axle and the cab, and note whether the bed and chassis are titled together or separately in Virginia. With that answered at the start, the questions that follow are about your specific truck.

General freight shows up on 262 of the 382 active Roanoke carrier registrations in FMCSA’s carrier census. If yours is a van or reefer tractor from that group, have the registration card, the title and your USDOT number together before you contact us.

Machinery and large objects appear on 55 carrier registrations in the same FMCSA census, with household goods and motor vehicles each on 45. Lowboys, car haulers and moving vans from those operations are all trucks we purchase here, and a photo set showing the deck, ramps or box makes the first conversation shorter.

Of the 382, the FMCSA census records 229 operating interstate, 153 intrastate and 143 running private fleets for their own goods. A private-fleet truck may be titled to a parent business rather than a trucking company, so check whose name is on the Virginia title and who can sign for it.

The three biggest Roanoke-based fleets in FMCSA’s census run 308, 297 and 200 power units. Selling several units out of a fleet that size goes easiest with one list: VIN, unit number and lot location for each truck.

New registrations add to the count each year, with FMCSA recording 27 new Roanoke carriers in 2024 and 29 in 2025. An owner-operator who started recently and is now leaving the business can sell a single tractor to us; the title in your name and a current registration are the starting point.

Carriers here report 1,635 drivers working within 100 miles and 2,079 running beyond that radius, according to FMCSA’s census. A long-haul truck may be sitting at a terminal outside Virginia when you decide to sell, and you can tell us where it is instead of bringing it home first.

Across 428 Roanoke-based trucks checked at roadside from August 2024 through August 2026, the middle model year in FMCSA roadside inspection records lands on 2021. Whatever the year of yours, a photo of the VIN plate and the odometer settles the specification questions up front.

Just under a fifth of those Roanoke trucks, 19.2 percent by FMCSA’s roadside figures, carried a model year ten or more years back. Older or newer, keep any service records you have with the title, and if you lack them, tell us what work the truck did.

Among 119 Roanoke carriers reporting mileage to FMCSA, the median annual figure is 19,625 miles per truck. Note your own truck’s annual miles when you contact us so we know how it was used.

The Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts put 69,862 jobs in Roanoke in 2023, with 4,574 in construction and 4,436 in transportation and warehousing. Contractors’ dump trucks and box trucks from that work are usually kept at a yard or job trailer, and we collect from either.

County Business Patterns from the Census Bureau lists 199 construction establishments and 7 warehousing establishments in Roanoke. If the truck belongs to one of those businesses, have the officer who signs titles available, and bring the company’s registration paperwork along with the title.

• My tank tractor sits at a west-side Roanoke terminal; does it need moving before you collect?It can stay put: Associated Asphalt is 1.6 miles west of the city by Bureau of Transportation Statistics records, and we can collect from a terminal lot there once you name the contact who opens the gate.
• Will you collect a Roanoke dump truck parked at the Starkey Lime Plant south-west of town?We will; the Mine Safety and Health Administration lists the Starkey Lime Plant 5.7 miles south-west of Roanoke; send the address of the lot and the title, and we arrange the collection at the site.
• My Roanoke-registered sleeper is on a long-haul trip outside Virginia; is that a problem for the sale?Not at all, since FMCSA’s census shows 2,079 drivers for Roanoke carriers working beyond 100 miles, and a truck on the road can be collected where it stops; give us its location and the Virginia title details.