Truck Auctions Near Me: Local Government & Fleet Trucks
Public works departments, utilities and school districts run large truck fleets and retire them on a schedule, which is why surplus trucks come up far more often than most buyers expect. Trucks are heavy, rarely shipped, and usually sold where they were parked, so the auctions within driving range are the ones worth watching.
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2017 Chevrolet Silverado 3500HD LT Crew Cab 4WD 4-DR, 6.6L V8 TURBO DIESEL
West Columbia, SC · 96 bids
2023 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 CREW CAB 4WD 4-DR, 5.3L V8
West Columbia, SC · 84 bids
2014 Ford F-350 Super Duty
Avilla, IN · 77 bids
2019 RAM 1500 Classic 4WD 4-DR, 5.7L V8
West Columbia, SC · 69 bids
2015 International Roll-Off Truck
Wharton, NJ · 66 bids
Diesel
2018 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 LT Crew Cab 4WD
Spartanburg, SC · 65 bids
V8
2014 FORD F-150 4X4 CREW CAB/DS18630/99306/KSP/SP9408
Frankfort, KY · 63 bids
196,168 mi
2019 Chevy Silverado
St. Charles, MO · 62 bids
2016 Chevrolet Silverado 1500
Robertsdale, AL · 56 bids
175,444 mi4x4V8
2015 Chevrolet Silverado 3500HD
Nashville, TN · 54 bids
60,097 mi4x4Diesel
2019 RAM 1500 Classic CREW CAB 4WD 4-DR, 5.7L V8
West Columbia, SC · 52 bids
2014 Ford F550 Super Duty Flatbed Truck
Madera, CA · 52 bids
Diesel
3349 active truck auctions nationwide right now.Last updated: 2026-09-02
What they're worth: surplus and fleet trucks typically sell for $853–$5,625 at government auction - median $2,500, from 46,899 completed sales in the last year, per the GovAuctions Surplus Price Index. Look up a specific item · See all categories
Retired trucks scatter across platforms by the agency that owned them. A county's dump trucks might be on GovDeals, a utility's bucket trucks on PublicSurplus, and a federal motor pool's pickups in a regional GSA yard. We pull all of them into one feed so you can set a ZIP and a radius and see only the trucks you could realistically collect. Every listing shows the pickup city and state before you bid, along with mileage and condition where the agency published them.
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Frequently Asked Questions
- How do I find truck auctions near me?
- Enter your ZIP code on GovAuctions.app and set a radius, then filter to vehicles. The feed combines retired trucks from GSA, GovDeals, PublicSurplus and the other government platforms and sorts them by how close the pickup location is. Distance matters more for trucks than for almost anything else on these sites, because shipping a dump truck or a bucket truck usually costs more than the gap between a good price and a bad one.
- What kinds of trucks do government agencies sell?
- Mostly work trucks that have reached the end of a service interval: half-ton and three-quarter-ton pickups from motor pools, dump trucks and plow trucks from public works, box trucks and cargo vans from school districts and parks departments, bucket and utility-body trucks from municipal utilities, and the occasional flatbed or tractor unit. Condition is stated as-is in nearly every case, and maintenance history is sometimes attached because fleets keep records that private sellers do not.
- Are surplus trucks a better buy than dealer stock?
- Often, for a specific reason. Fleet trucks are sold to clear yard space on a schedule, not to hit a margin, and the bidder pool for a plow truck in a rural county is small. The offsetting costs are real: as-is with no warranty, a buyer's premium on top of your bid, and you arrange collection. High hours on a work truck also mean something different than high mileage on a car, so read the listing's service notes rather than the odometer alone.
- Can I get a surplus truck delivered?
- Rarely. Across the vehicle listings GovAuctions.app indexes, shipping is offered on roughly 1 in 50, and heavy trucks are at the far end of that. Plan to collect the truck yourself from the agency's yard, usually within 5 to 10 business days of winning, and check whether it is driveable or needs a trailer before you bid. The listing states the pickup location up front, which is the single most useful filter on this page.