Service Areas

Missouri covers roughly 69,700 square miles and 114 counties, plus the City of St. Louis, which sits in no county at all and has not since 1876. The state reads as four different places depending on where you stand. North of the Missouri River it is rolling claypan farm country laid out on the section grid, cattle and row crop, with gravel roads and lettered state routes running to the horizon. The middle is river country: two big rivers, bluffs on one side and bottom ground on the other, and gumbo soil in the bottoms that holds water into June and sets like a brick in August. South of the river the ground lifts into the Ozark Plateau, the largest highland between the Appalachians and the Rockies, where the soil is thin over chert and dolomite, the hills are cut by clear spring-fed rivers, and there are more than seven thousand recorded caves under it. Then the far southeast corner drops off the edge of the plateau into the Bootheel, which is flat Delta farmland drained by an enormous network of ditches and levees and looks nothing like the rest of the state. Delivery planning here follows the ground and the season at least as closely as it follows the road map, because grade, soil and the last half mile of gravel decide what a truck can actually set down.

Distance from the nearest depot is most of what moves a delivered price, which is why we ask for a ZIP code before quoting. Give us yours, in the form below or by calling (330) 510-5817, and we will confirm the route and the timing for your exact location.

Rural, Remote or Off-Road Property?

We deliver to properties that are not on paved roads, regularly. Tell us the access situation: how long the drive or track is, how tight the turns are, and anything the truck has to cross or pass under. Around here that usually means the lettered routes, which is Missouri's supplemental state highway system and the single most distinctive thing about giving directions here, Highway K, Route AA, Route BB, Route DD, Route KK, Route MM, Route PP, Route Z and Route ZZ, all real and all normal in an address, the outer road, which is what Missouri calls the frontage road running alongside an interstate, the blacktop, meaning the paved county road as opposed to the gravel, county gravel, and the two miles of it that are usually the last leg of a rural address, chip and seal, the county surface that looks paved and behaves like gravel in July heat, washboard gravel, the section line road on the mile grid across north Missouri, the county line road, a low water slab laid straight across a creek with no rail, which is normal in the Ozarks and comes up fast, the slab, meaning that same crossing, a ford, gumbo, the heavy river bottom clay that greases up after a rain and sets like a brick in August, buckshot, the cracking Bootheel clay that goes from workable to impassable in one afternoon, the bottoms, meaning river bottom ground on either side of the Missouri or the Mississippi, claypan, the north Missouri soil that drains slowly and stays soft for a stretch every spring, loess bluffs along the Missouri River in the northwest corner, the levee road and the borrow ditch beside it, the ditches, meaning the numbered drainage ditches of the Bootheel, where Ditch 1 and Ditch 81 are addresses people actually use, turn row, the field edge lane at the end of the rows, ditch bank road, which carries a pickup fine and a loaded truck only when it is dry, a holler, which is what a hollow is called once you are south of the Missouri River, a glade, the open dolomite outcrop ground in the Ozarks, chert and flint rock, the loose stone that makes an Ozark drive carry a truck better than dirt would, a bench cut into the hillside, which is what an Ozark building pad usually is, karst ground, meaning limestone with caves and sinkholes under it, which is most of southern Missouri, a sinkhole that took the low corner of a field, a spring branch, shut-ins, the igneous rock chutes in the St. Francois Mountains, old mine ground and unknown fill, which is a real question in the Lead Belt and around Joplin and Webb City, chat, the fine gravel tailings left from tri-state lead and zinc mining and still used as a road and lot surface around Joplin, a steel pipe grate set in the ground at a pasture gate, a one-lane bridge with a posted limit, a creek crossing that comes up fast after a storm upstream, the old highway the interstate bypassed, which in half this state means Route 66, a conservation area road with no address on it, a private cove drive at the Lake, often barely one lane and often shared, water mile markers, which is how people at Lake of the Ozarks actually give directions, a boat ramp approach, which is the only level ground on some lakefront lots, frost heave that lifts a set of blocks over one winter, spring thaw that softens a gravel lane a loaded truck crossed in February. For most properties a standard tilt-bed handles it. Where it will not, we will say so before you order rather than after the truck arrives.

The more you tell us about the site, the more accurate the quote and the delivery estimate.