Aggregate haulers between two pits off the north-east edge
The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists Strasburg Quarry, a crushed-stone operation 1.9 miles north-east of town, and Middletown Quarry 3.2 miles out in the same direction. A tri-axle or tandem dump that hauls aggregate out of either pit can be collected from a shop, a yard or the edge of a quarry lot, so give us the exact address and any gate hours.
Seventeen miles north, Gore Mine appears in Mine Safety and Health Administration records as a sand and gravel operation, 17.3 miles from Strasburg. If your dump or end-dump split its loads between Gore and the Shenandoah County pits, send photos of the bed, the hoist and the cab together, along with the title in the owner’s name.
Front Royal rail
Container tractors near the Virginia Inland Port
East of Strasburg by 9.4 miles, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics places the Virginia Inland Port intermodal ramp at Front Royal. Day cabs that shuttle boxes between that ramp and the warehouses along the valley are tractors we buy, and a VIN plus a photo of the dash odometer lets us start on yours.
The North American Rail Network, kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, shows the Virginia Inland Port rail yard at 9.5 miles east. If your tractor is parked in a drop lot near the yard rather than at home in Strasburg, tell us so and we will arrange the pickup there instead.
General freight, lumber, machinery and reefers
FMCSA’s carrier census counts 30 active carriers in Strasburg, with 16 hauling general freight, 5 moving logs, poles, beams and lumber, 5 carrying machinery and large objects, and 4 running refrigerated food. Whether yours is a box truck, a log truck with its loader or a reefer tractor, have the registration card and any maintenance receipts ready when you call.
Of those carriers, 16 hold interstate authority and 14 stay intrastate, and 11 are private fleets hauling their own goods, again per FMCSA’s carrier census. A private-fleet truck titled to a business needs the signature of someone authorised to sign for that company, so check who that is before we arrive.
Valley day trips beside interstate sleeper runs
Across 12 Strasburg carriers that report mileage on FMCSA’s carrier census, the median is 38,959 miles a truck each year. Note your truck’s current reading on the title paperwork and in a photo, so both match when we come for it.
Strasburg carriers keep 64 drivers inside a 100-mile radius and send 49 farther, per FMCSA’s carrier census. A local truck is usually back in town at night, while a long-haul sleeper may be out on the road, so tell us which day it will be parked and where.
Multi-unit outfits and first-year owner-operators on the valley roads
The biggest carrier on FMCSA’s census in Strasburg runs 42 power units and 35 drivers, the next runs 18 of each, and a third has 5 units with 4 drivers. If you are selling several trucks from a fleet that size, send a list of VINs and where each one is parked so one visit can cover them.
FMCSA records also show one new carrier registered here in 2024 and another in 2025. A newer owner-operator selling a single tractor needs the same things as a long-standing fleet: a clear title, the registration and photos of all four sides.
Factory lots and Shenandoah cattle and dairy farms
Manufacturing accounts for 497 of the 1,603 jobs located in Strasburg in 2023, or 31 percent, according to the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts, with transportation and warehousing at 153 and construction at 53. Straight trucks and tractors that serve the plants can be collected from the employer’s lot if the owner arranges access.
The Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns lists 24 construction establishments, and USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 859 farms in Shenandoah County, led by cattle, corn and milk. A livestock hauler, grain truck or milk tanker sitting on a farm can be picked up right there, so give us the farm lane and where on the property it is parked.
The questions we get asked in Strasburg
- Will you collect a dump truck parked at a quarry near Strasburg?Strasburg Quarry is 1.9 miles north-east of town in Mine Safety and Health Administration records, and a truck parked there or at Middletown Quarry can be collected on site once you send the address and confirm who can let us in.
- Can you pick up a container tractor parked over by the Front Royal inland port rather than in Strasburg?The Virginia Inland Port ramp sits 9.4 miles east of Strasburg per the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, and we can meet the tractor wherever it is parked near there; just send the location and the VIN.
- What should a Shenandoah County farm truck owner have ready?With 859 farms in Shenandoah County on USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, many trucks here are titled to a farm, so have the title, the registration and photos ready, and make sure whoever signs is named on the title.
- Will you look at a lumber hauler with bunks and a knuckle-boom kept in a Shenandoah County yard near Strasburg?Five Strasburg carriers on FMCSA’s census haul logs, poles, beams and lumber, and their trucks are ones we buy; send photos of the truck and any loader or bunks with the VIN.