Donate a crew cab work truck with the miles and the history to match

Where donated crew cabs come from

Contractors and fleets replacing on a mileage schedule. A crew cab that has run three hundred thousand miles pulling a trailer is at the end of its useful fleet life and the beginning of somebody else's.

Farms and ranches send them with high miles and a clean body. Utility companies and municipalities send them maintained on a schedule, which is the best profile in the category.

Families send them too, often after an estate. A crew cab is frequently the most valuable vehicle in an estate and the easiest one to resolve with a single document.

Driven or towed, whichever is cheaper

If it runs and is registered, we drive it. If it does not, we tow it. Either way Giving Center arranges and covers the move, and the honest answer is that towing a pickup is cheap enough that a non-runner is still worth doing in most of the country.

Tell us whether it starts, whether it rolls and whether it steers. A truck on flat tires in a back field needs a wrecker with a winch rather than a flatbed with a ramp.

Take out your tools. Anything left in the bed or the cab goes with the truck, and that includes the toolbox unless you pull it.

What decides what a crew cab brings

• Drivetrain. Four-wheel drive and a diesel engine are the two biggest value adds in this category, in most markets.
• Mileage against engine reputation. Some engines are worth buying at high mileage and some are not, and buyers know exactly which. Give us the real number.
• Rust. On a salt-belt truck, frame and cab corner rust is the deciding factor, above mileage and above cosmetics.
• Bed and towing equipment. A gooseneck ball, a fifth-wheel hitch, a bed liner, a toolbox or a flatbed conversion all add.
• Title status. Clean, salvage or rebuilt. It changes the buyer pool and it belongs on the form up front.

Makes and bodies we accept

Crew cabs are shopped by make, engine and drivetrain.

• Ford: F-250, F-350 and F-450 Super Duty crew cabs with the 6.7 Power Stroke, the older 6.0 and 7.3, and the 6.2 and 7.3 gas V8s.
• GM: Chevrolet Silverado 2500HD and 3500HD, GMC Sierra 2500HD and 3500HD, Duramax diesel and Vortec and 6.6 gas.
• Ram and import: Ram 2500, 3500 and 4500 with the Cummins 6.7, Toyota Tundra and Tacoma double cab, Nissan Titan and Titan XD.
• Bed and hitch equipment: Knapheide and CM flatbed conversions, B&W and Curt hitches, Weather Guard and UWS toolboxes, Reading service bodies.

Manufacturer names appear here so you can find your own vehicle. No manufacturer sponsors, endorses or is affiliated with this program.

The paperwork, and what you can deduct

It is a titled vehicle, so the title has to transfer. If it is lost, most states have a duplicate process and the state title rules page walks through yours. If it was financed, we need the lien release. A company-owned vehicle needs whoever signs to have authority to sign for the entity.

Giving Center sells the truck and your deduction is the gross sale proceeds, reported on Form 1098-C. Crew cabs span a wide range. A clean late-model diesel four-wheel drive clears $5,000 easily, where the IRS requires a qualified appraisal and Form 8283 Section B at your expense. A high-mileage rusty gas truck often lands between $500 and $5,000, where Section A applies and no appraisal is needed.

Be careful with expectations here specifically, because pickup prices are widely discussed and often misremembered. Your deduction is what the truck actually sells for, not what a similar one is listed for online.