The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists two crushed-stone quarries just west of University Center: Leesburg Plant at about 4 miles and Goose Creek Plant at about 4.1 miles. A dump truck or tri-axle that hauls aggregate out of either one may still be parked near the scale house or a contractor yard on that side of town, and we can collect it from there.
When a truck has spent its shifts hauling stone from Leesburg Plant or Goose Creek Plant, gather its title and current registration before you call. Add photos of the body, the hoist, the frame rails and the tires, plus the cab, so the pictures cover everything a quarry tractor carries.
If the quarry operator keeps the truck behind a gate, tell us who holds the key and which plant it sits at. Naming the site, west of University Center along the quarry roads, lets us plan the collection with the person who controls the lot.
Roughly 17.4 miles south-east, the Energy Information Administration places a petroleum product terminal under the name FAIRFAX. Tank trucks and tractors pulling fuel trailers that load at that rack are among the vehicles we purchase, and the trailer can be listed separately if it is yours too.
Further out in the same direction, Norfolk Southern TBT appears in Bureau of Transportation Statistics records as a liquid bulk terminal about 24.8 miles from University Center. For a tanker that has worked between these two terminals, keep the inspection reports and service records that travelled with it and send them along with the VIN.
Hazmat haulers often hold paperwork other trucks never see, such as tank test dates and placard records. Share what you have from FAIRFAX or Norfolk Southern TBT runs; if some of it is missing, tell us what the tractor carried and we will ask the rest.
Livestock haulers, grain trucks and rigs that move horse trailers between barns are all part of what we buy around University Center.
A farm truck is often parked in a field, a pole barn or beside a feed bin rather than in town. Give us the farm address and say whether a tow truck can reach it on a gravel lane, and we will arrange the pickup at the barn.
If that title has gone missing, the state’s title agency issues a replacement; file that request before you arrange the sale.
Jobs and wholesale freight near University Center
Of those, wholesale trade accounted for 89 positions, a 3.6 percent share, according to the same LEHD figures.
Box trucks and straight trucks on wholesale delivery routes are often parked at a warehouse dock or a tenant lot. Tell us the loading bay or the lot number, and have the registration and the title ready to hand over when we arrive.
Out to the south-east
Research installations on the Fairfax side
The Bureau of Transportation Statistics lists the Air Force Office of Scientific Research at about 22 miles south-east of University Center and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency at about 22.1 miles in that direction. Contractors whose trucks serve sites over there can sell from wherever the vehicle is kept.
If your truck is parked on a contractor lot near those installations while you live in Loudoun County, you do not have to bring it home first. Send the address, the name of whoever can let us in, and photos of the cab, chassis and any equipment mounted on it.
The questions we get asked in University Center
- Can I sell a horse or livestock hauler from a Loudoun County farm?Equine and cattle rank among Loudoun County’s top farm products in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, and the trucks that move them are ones we buy. Give us the farm address and describe the lane leading to the barn.