Quarry and pit trucks around Staunton
The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists Augusta Plant, a crushed-stone quarry 4.2 miles north-west of Staunton. A dump truck or tri-axle that loads at a quarry that close to town is often parked at the operator’s yard rather than at a home address, so tell us which yard it sits in and who holds the key.
Two sand and gravel operations, D M Conner Sand Co and ACRES SAND & STONE, both sit 10.8 miles south of the city on Mine Safety and Health Administration records. If your truck is kept down at one of those pits, we collect it there; send the gate contact and a few photos of the bed, the cab and the VIN plate with your first message.
What Staunton’s registered carriers carry
General freight is the cargo named by 41 of the 70 active Staunton carriers on file with FMCSA’s carrier census. A box truck or a dry-van tractor from one of those outfits sells with the title, the current registration and whatever service records you kept in the cab.
Machinery and large objects appear on 17 Staunton carrier filings in the FMCSA census, logs, poles, beams and lumber on 14, and motor vehicles on 13. Lowboys, log trucks and car haulers each carry their own equipment, so list the trailer or body that goes with the tractor when you write to us, and say whether it is part of the sale.
Of those 70 carriers, the federal census counts 39 running interstate, 31 intrastate only, and 29 as private fleets hauling their own goods. A private-fleet truck often has its title held by the parent business, so check whose name is on it before we schedule the pickup.
Federal inspection stops and the valley fleet’s model years
Across 133 Staunton trucks checked between 2024-08-30 and 2026-08-24, FMCSA roadside inspection records put the median model year at 2020. The same FMCSA inspection sample shows 22.6 percent of those trucks were ten or more model years old.
Keep the report from any of those roadside checks in the folder with the title. It confirms the VIN and the unit details in a federal record, which saves a round of questions when we look at the truck.
Valley runs and long routes from Staunton
Nineteen local carriers reported mileage to FMCSA, and the median among them is 48,083 miles per truck. Have the odometer reading ready when you contact us, along with the VIN; the rest of our questions start from those two numbers.
Staunton carriers report 177 drivers working within 100 miles and 332 driving beyond that radius, according to FMCSA filings. A long-haul tractor may be parked anywhere along its route when you decide to sell, and we can collect it where it is rather than back in the valley.
Three dozen units down to one
At the top end, FMCSA’s census lists Staunton fleets of 33, 30 and 25 power units, the latter with 25 drivers. If you manage a fleet that size and are letting several trucks go at once, send one list with each VIN and where each unit is parked, and we will work through them together.
New registrations stay small here: the FMCSA census records 4 new Staunton carriers in 2024 and 3 in 2025. An owner-operator who started a few years ago and is now stepping back sells the same way, with the title in their own name and the registration current.
Construction and warehousing jobs in town
The Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts put 632 of Staunton’s 11,910 jobs in construction in 2023, alongside 487 in transportation and warehousing, 441 in manufacturing and 286 in wholesale trade. Dump trucks, flatbeds and straight trucks from that work are the kinds of vehicles we pick up from job sites and contractor lots.
Staunton holds 102 construction firms but only 4 warehousing ones, per the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns. A contractor’s truck often carries the company name on the title, so have whoever signs for the business ready to sign the transfer.
The questions we get asked in Staunton
- Will you collect a tri-axle sitting at one of the sand pits below Staunton?D M Conner Sand Co and ACRES SAND & STONE sit 10.8 miles south of the city according to the Mine Safety and Health Administration, and we come to the pit. Give us the gate contact so the collection is arranged with the operator.
- The Staunton truck’s title has gone missing; where does a replacement come from?A Staunton owner requests a replacement from Virginia’s state title agency, which issues every title in the state. Tell us when you first write that the title is missing, and we will hold the pickup date until the duplicate arrives.
- Are Staunton lumber haulers and auto transporters something you take?Fourteen Staunton carriers list logs, poles, beams and lumber in FMCSA’s carrier census, and 13 list motor vehicles, and we buy trucks from both kinds of work. Send the VIN, the odometer reading and photos of the tractor and its trailer.
- How does a 2020 tractor compare with what Staunton carriers field?FMCSA roadside inspection records for 133 Staunton trucks give a median model year of 2020. Whatever the year, we need the title, the registration and the VIN to get started.