New Jersey Sells 130 State Vehicles at Live Auction Saturday, November 7 in Trenton: Seven Tahoes, Thirteen F-250s, a 24,451-Mile Tahoe, and Last Month's Middle Price Was $2,050.

The State of New Jersey's next live vehicle auction is Saturday, November 7, at 9 a.m. at the Distribution Center in Trenton: 130 lots, 2003 to 2019, with 90 running vehicles and 40 sold inoperable, no online bidding, no buyer's premium, and the state's own results from the last five sales to bid against. At the October 17 sale, 126 vehicles sold for $323,800, a middle price of $2,050. Here is the lot list, what the same models brought, and how to register, pay and take delivery.

TRENTON, NEW JERSEY — New Jersey sells its retired state vehicles the old way. There is no website to bid on, no proxy bids and no buyer's premium; there is a Saturday morning at the Treasury's Distribution and Support Services yard at 1620 Stuyvesant Avenue in Trenton, an auctioneer, and whoever registered at the door with a driver's license. The next one is Saturday, November 7, 2026, at 9 a.m., and the state has posted the brochure: 130 vehicles, model years 2003 through 2019, from the Fords, Chevrolets, Dodges and Jeeps that state agencies drive. Three weeks earlier, on October 17, the same yard sold 126 of 130 lots for $323,800, and the state published every hammer price, as it has for every sale since at least March 2025.

That record is what makes this sale worth a drive. A buyer walking into the Trenton yard on November 7 can know, lot by lot, what a 2012 Tahoe, a 2016 Fusion or a 2015 F-250 brought there last month, in July, in June and in May, and bid to the number instead of to the room.

A New Jersey State Police Tahoe of the 2012 to 2013 generation, the body style of nine Tahoes in the November 7 sale, photographed in 2015. Photo: Tech. Sgt. Matt Hecht, U.S. Air National Guard, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

What is in the sale

Sixty-seven of the 130 are Fords: twenty Fusions from 2008 to 2018, thirteen F-250 pickups from 2003 to 2019, six F-350 service trucks, five F-150s, eight Focuses, five Explorers, three Tauruses, two Rangers, two Transit Connects and four cargo vans. Chevrolet accounts for twenty-three, among them nine Tahoes, two Suburbans, eight window vans, a 2013 Caprice and a 2013 Impala. Dodge has twenty-one, mostly Caravans and Journeys with two Avengers and a 2006 Ram 1500. There are seven GMC Sierras, nine Jeeps (seven Patriots, a Liberty and a Commander), and three odd ones: a 2009 Mercedes-Benz E350 with 178,006 miles, a 2009 Honda Accord with 226,250, and a 2014 Nissan Altima with 11,893 miles that is listed as inoperable.

Lots 1 through 90 are the running vehicles. Lots 91 through 130, forty of them, are marked INOP on the brochure, and three carry salvage titles: a 2015 Fusion with 88,631 miles, a 2017 Journey and a 2013 Grand Caravan, both inoperable. Eleven lots have no odometer reading at all, including four of the six F-350 service trucks; the two that do read 382,350 and 376,744 miles. Those are the state's highway trucks, and the mileage says so.

Among the ninety runners, the posted odometers run from 24,451 to 245,580 miles with a middle reading of 139,102. The low number belongs to lot 47, a 2012 Chevrolet Tahoe with 24,451 miles, the lot that will draw the first crowd on preview day. Behind it are a 2016 Jeep Patriot with 54,259 miles, a 2008 Ford Ranger with 57,695, a 2015 Transit Connect with 59,742, a 2005 Ranger with 71,561, a 2015 Patriot with 72,345, the 2013 Impala with 72,741 and a 2013 Focus with 73,809. The newest running vehicles are a 2019 F-250 regular cab with 200,805 miles and three 2018 Fusions at 99,142, 129,862 and 133,806 miles.

The police-package vehicles are easy to pick out: the 2013 Caprice at 97,792 miles, a 2014 Taurus Police Interceptor at 143,710, four Explorers from 2014 to 2016 between 129,765 and 204,807 miles, a 2009 Crown Victoria with no reading, and the Tahoes, seven running (24,451 to 245,580 miles) and two inoperable at 203,274 and 290,510. The rest are the plain fleet: cargo vans, 15-passenger window vans, half-ton and three-quarter-ton pickups, minivans and the sedans that state employees drive to meetings.

How to register and bid

This is a live, in-person auction only. Registration opens at 8 a.m. on sale day at the Distribution Center, and bidders can also register on preview day; a driver's license or other government photo ID is required, and the title is issued only in the registered bidder's name. Preview is Friday, November 6, from 9 a.m. to noon, and Saturday from 8 a.m. until the auction starts at 9. Preview day is the only time an engine may be started; on auction day nothing may be turned on. Everyone on the yard must be 18 or older, and no pets.

The money works differently from an online sale. The moment the hammer falls, the buyer puts down a bid deposit of $150 or 10 percent of the bid, whichever is greater, in cash, money order or certified check made out to "Treasurer, State of New Jersey," and that deposit is not refundable once applied. A bidder who expects to buy several vehicles can leave a cash or certified-check fund at registration and draw deposits from it. The balance is due by 3 p.m. on Friday, November 13, by certified check or money order only; the terms say cash, personal checks, company checks and credit cards are not accepted for the balance. Vehicles must be removed by that same Friday at 3 p.m. or the state charges $40 a day storage, and a balance unpaid by the second Friday, November 20, forfeits the deposit and the vehicle, which goes back into a future sale. The state's terms list no buyer's premium; bidders are responsible for any sales tax and fees on their own.

Everything sells as is, where is, with all faults, and the state says so in capital letters: all sales are final, no returns or adjustments for any defect whether or not an inspection could have found it. The brochure identifies known defects where the state knows them, which is why the INOP flags are there, and the state can add or withdraw lots before the sale starts. The director reserves the right to reject any bid.

What the same vehicles brought this year

New Jersey posts the full results of every sale, and five of them, from November 2025 through October 2026, give a clear picture of the yard.

Across the five sales, 623 vehicles sold for $1,633,750, and the middle price has stayed between $1,800 and $2,200 the whole year. The state sells almost everything it lists, between 96 and 98 percent of lots each time, and the floor is low: the cheapest lots every month go for $500 to $600.

For the November 7 catalog, the model-by-model results are the ones that matter. Chevrolet Tahoes of the 2012 to 2014 generation sold eight at a middle of $2,050 in October ($700 to $4,200), eighteen at $2,800 in July (where two 2019 Tahoes made $10,200 and $11,200), five at $2,100 in June and five at $2,600 in May. Ford F-250 pickups have swung with condition: seven in November 2025 at a middle of $8,400, up to $12,500 for a 2015 extended cab, but only $1,600 to $2,200 for the two sold in October. F-150s brought $4,000 to $7,000 in October, a middle of $5,600. Fusions have run $2,000 to $3,200 at the middle all year, Explorers $1,700 to $3,000, Focuses $1,200 to $2,700, Caravans $1,200 to $1,800, Journeys $1,600 to $2,400, and the 2013 Caprices, of which the state has sold more than sixty across the five sales, $1,600 to $3,000 at the middle. The service trucks and cargo vans are where the money has been: a 2015 F-350 utility brought $10,500 in October, a 2015 cargo van $11,500, and eight cargo vans in November 2025 sold at a middle of $8,750.

What the record does not include is an inoperable section this size. Forty INOP lots is a larger share than any of the five prior sales, and the runners in the back of the brochure, the F-350 service trucks with 376,000 and 382,000 miles and the 2019 Fusion with 40,225 miles that will not start, are the lots where a mechanic in the preview line has the edge. On UX Search, the New Jersey page shows what every government seller in the state has listed right now with the middle closed price beside each one, and the Price Report carries the national figures by make and model.

The short version

One hundred thirty State of New Jersey vehicles, live only, Saturday, November 7, 9 a.m., 1620 Stuyvesant Avenue, Trenton. Preview Friday, November 6, 9 to noon, and Saturday from 8. Register with photo ID. Deposit of $150 or 10 percent in cash, money order or certified check when you win; balance by certified check or money order by 3 p.m. Friday, November 13; pick up by then or pay $40 a day. No buyer's premium in the state's terms. Ninety runners, forty inoperable, three salvage titles. Last month 126 vehicles sold for a middle of $2,050, and the state will post every price from this one within days; UX Auctions will carry them, lot by lot, in the week after the sale. Questions go to Distribution and Support Services at (609) 530-3300 or dssauction@treas.nj.gov.

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