Stone and site work
Stone haulers working the pits flanking Sterling
Leesburg Plant, a crushed-stone quarry the Mine Safety and Health Administration lists 7.3 miles north-west of Sterling, and Chantilly Crushed Stone Incorporated, 7.5 miles south-west, put two aggregate pits on either side of town. Dump trucks and tri-axles that load stone at either pit are trucks we buy, and we collect them from the yard where they are kept.
Construction accounts for 3,101 of the 12,084 jobs located in Sterling, about 25.7 percent, in the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts for 2023. If your truck hauls to those job sites, send us a photo of the body, the VIN plate and the title along with the site address.
Loudoun County holds 160 construction establishments according to County Business Patterns from the Census Bureau. A contractor selling a single dump truck or a roll-off from a site in the county does not need to move it first; give us the site address and a name to ask for at the gate.
Tankers near Fairfax and the Norfolk Southern TBT terminal
South-east of Sterling by 12.9 miles, the Fairfax petroleum product terminal appears in Energy Information Administration listings as the nearest fuel rack. A tractor or straight tanker that loads fuel there can be sold from wherever it is staged; tell us whether the tank is empty and the truck parked off the rack.
Further out in the same direction, Norfolk Southern TBT is a liquid bulk terminal 20.4 miles from Sterling on the Bureau of Transportation Statistics list. For a tanker that has worked either terminal, keep the tank’s test and inspection certificates with the title; those papers travel with the truck when we take it.
Freight, furniture, machinery and cars out of Sterling
General freight is the most common cargo listed, at 294 of the town’s active carriers in FMCSA’s carrier census, with household goods at 74, machinery and large objects at 64 and motor vehicles at 50. Box trucks, moving vans, lowboys and car haulers all fit what we purchase, so tell us the body type when you first reach out.
Of those 506 companies, 348 run interstate and 158 stay intrastate, while 219 operate private fleets, per the federal carrier census. A private-fleet truck owned by a business rather than a for-hire company sells the same way: the name on the title signs, and we handle the collection.
Newly registered carriers numbered 42 in 2025 and 22 in 2024, FMCSA’s census shows. If you started out recently and the truck is still financed, have the lender’s name and the payoff letter ready, since the lien has to clear before the title transfers.
How old Sterling’s inspected trucks run
FMCSA roadside inspection records stopped 132 Sterling-based trucks from August 2024 through August 2026, and the middle model year among them is 2016. The same inspection records put about 47.7 percent of those trucks at ten or more model years old. Whatever the year on your title, send the VIN and we will read the build details from it.
Among the 203 Sterling carriers reporting mileage to FMCSA’s census, the median truck covers 23,095 miles a year. Have the current odometer reading and any service records on hand when you call; they answer most of our questions in one go.
Larger operators
Selling several trucks from one Sterling yard
The three biggest fleets based in Sterling run 173, 168 and 92 power units, according to FMCSA’s carrier census, the second of those with 326 drivers. An operator retiring a group of trucks can list them together with VINs and the yard address, and we plan one collection around them.
Drivers working within 100 miles of base total 1,880 among Sterling carriers, against 1,170 who go farther, as recorded by the federal carrier census. A truck that runs long routes may be parked out of state when you decide to sell; tell us where it sits and we arrange pickup there.
Cattle, corn and horse country in Loudoun
Loudoun’s 1,332 farms lean toward cattle, corn and horses, the three leading lines in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture. Livestock haulers, grain trucks and horse-hauling rigs from those farms are welcome, and they can be collected from the farm lane.
Manufacturing employs 2,200 people working in Sterling, 18.2 percent of local jobs on the Census Bureau’s LEHD counts, while transportation and warehousing employ 365. A delivery or service truck from a plant here sells with its title and registration, plus the keys and any spare set.
The questions we get asked in Sterling
- Can my tri-axle stay at the Leesburg or Chantilly pit for pickup?Leesburg Plant sits 7.3 miles north-west and Chantilly Crushed Stone 7.5 miles south-west on the Mine Safety and Health Administration list, and we collect from either site. Tell us who manages the yard so the gate is open on the day.
- Do you buy moving vans from Sterling?Household goods carriers number 74 in Sterling on FMCSA’s carrier census, and their box trucks and vans are on our list. Send the VIN, the title and photos of the box and cab.
- Our Sterling business owns the truck on paper; which person signs the title over?Sterling has 219 private-fleet carriers on FMCSA’s census, many titled to a business. An officer of the company named on the title signs, and we tell you which documents to bring.