Sand pits east
Two pits just past the Suffolk line
Two sand and gravel operations, Audubon Sand Pit and Chuckatuck Sand Pit, both sit about 8.3 miles east of Windsor in the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s mine listings. A dump truck or tri-axle that hauls from those pits can be collected right where it is parked, whether that is a pit yard or your own driveway in town.
If your truck runs aggregate out of Audubon or Chuckatuck, tell us the body type and the axle setup when you first get in touch. Send photos of the dump body, the cab and the VIN plate, and we can line up the collection around the hours the pit gate is open.
County Business Patterns from the Census Bureau records 18 construction establishments here, so a good share of local trucks spend their days between job sites and those two pits. Give us the address of whichever site your truck sits at today, and the name of someone who can let us in.
Cotton, hogs, corn
Hauling cotton, hog feed and corn off Windsor farms
Around Windsor, the farms of Isle of Wight County number 212 in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, with cotton, hogs and corn listed as the county’s top products. Grain trucks, livestock haulers and farm-supply rigs that serve those operations are trucks we buy, and we can pick one up from a barn lot or a field edge.
Nine of Windsor’s 23 active carriers haul grain, feed and hay, and eight carry farm supplies, going by the cargo lines filed in FMCSA’s carrier census. If yours is one of them, have the registration and the title together before harvest wraps up, so the sale is not waiting on a missing document when the truck comes off seasonal work.
A farm truck that has spent years parked between seasons still needs its title in your name. Check the name on the certificate against the name on the registration card, and if they differ, tell us at the start so we can sort out which signatures are needed.
Dry vans and log decks
Who hauls out of this town
General freight leads the cargo list, with 15 of Windsor’s 23 active carriers naming it in FMCSA’s carrier census, and 5 more listing logs, poles, beams and lumber. Log trucks and flatbeds working the woods of the county can be collected on site, so there is no need to bring a loaded trailer into town.
That same federal census splits the town’s carriers into 15 interstate and 8 intrastate operations, with 7 of them running private fleets that haul their own goods. Tell us which type of authority your truck worked under, since that shapes what registration and plates we will need to see.
Fleets here are small: the three biggest in FMCSA’s records field 20, 7 and 4 power units. Whether you are selling one tractor or several from a yard of that size, a list of VINs and a photo set for each truck lets us handle them together in one visit.
Twenty drivers close in, twenty-six farther out
Drivers who stay inside a hundred-mile radius number 20 in FMCSA’s carrier census for Windsor, against 26 who go past it. A long-haul tractor may be parked somewhere other than town when you decide to sell, and we can collect it wherever it stands.
A typical Windsor tractor logs 35,000 miles a year, the median across the 12 local carriers whose mileage FMCSA’s carrier census records. Note the odometer reading when you send photos, and have any service records you keep in the cab ready to hand over with the keys.
Windsor held 1,735 jobs in 2023, a figure from the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts that covers the farms, shops and yards along Route 460. If your truck belongs to an employer here rather than to you personally, have someone who can sign for the business available when we collect it.
Ro-ro and rail
Newport News terminals, twenty-odd miles north-east
The Bureau of Transportation Statistics lists the Port of Virginia’s Newport News Marine Terminal, a roll-on/roll-off terminal, about 20.8 miles north-east of Windsor, with the Papco liquid bulk terminal at 21 miles. Tractors that shuttle between those docks and inland yards here can be picked up at either end of the route.
Two petroleum product terminals listed under Newport News sit 20.9 and 21 miles out in Energy Information Administration records, and the North American Rail Network shows a Newport News rail yard at 21.3 miles. If your truck pulls a tank trailer or drays rail freight, tell us whether the trailer is part of the sale or stays behind.
Naval Suffolk Facility, a military installation the Bureau of Transportation Statistics places 18.2 miles east, is another site trucks from here serve. If your truck is parked on any gated property, give us the contact for gate access before the pickup is scheduled.
Centerbrooke Lane
Getting a duplicate before the pickup
Titles in this state come from the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles, and its nearest office to Windsor is the DMV Customer Service Center - Suffolk at 1040 Centerbrooke Ln, Suffolk, 23434, about 8.8 miles away. That location is one of the agency’s DMV Customer Service Centers and DMV Select offices, which handle replacement titles.
If the certificate is lost, a replacement from the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles comes first, and the Suffolk center is a short drive down the road. Bring your registration and identification, and let us know once the new title is in hand so we can set the collection date.
The questions we get asked in Windsor
- Our tri-axle sits in the Chuckatuck pit yard off the Windsor road; will you come out for it?Audubon Sand Pit and Chuckatuck Sand Pit are both about 8.3 miles east of town in Mine Safety and Health Administration listings, and we collect trucks from pit yards like those. Pass along the pit’s street address and a phone number for the person holding the gate key.
- The title for my Windsor log truck went missing years ago; who issues a duplicate?The DMV Customer Service Center - Suffolk, at 1040 Centerbrooke Ln, Suffolk, 23434, is about 8.8 miles from Windsor and issues replacement titles for the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles. Get the replacement first, then contact us to arrange the pickup.
- Do you buy grain and livestock trucks from farms around here?Isle of Wight County holds 212 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, led by cotton, hogs and corn, and the trucks that serve them are ones we purchase. Have the title and registration ready, and we come out to the farm.