Cash for Junk Cars in Nebraska | Free Towing Statewide
1-800-We-Junk-Cars buys junk, damaged, and non-running vehicles throughout Nebraska. We serve Omaha, Lincoln, Grand Island, Kearney, North Platte, and every community across the state. Free towing, same-day or next-day pickup in most areas, and cash payment when we pick up. Whether your car sits in the Panhandle or the Missouri River valley, we’ll haul it away and pay you on the spot.
How Selling Your Junk Car Works in Nebraska
Get Your Quote
Call us or fill out the online form with your vehicle’s year, make, model, and condition. We’ll give you a guaranteed cash offer within minutes. Nebraska residents from Scottsbluff to Omaha get quotes based on current market values and local demand for parts and scrap metal.
Schedule Free Pickup
Pick a time that works for you. Most Nebraska locations qualify for same-day or next-day service. Our tow operators come directly to your home, workplace, or wherever the vehicle sits. Towing is always free no matter where you are in the Cornhusker State.
Get Paid Cash
When our driver arrives, they’ll check the vehicle condition, finish the paperwork with you, and hand over your cash on the spot. The whole thing takes about fifteen minutes. You walk away with money in hand while we haul off your unwanted vehicle.
What Is Your Nebraska Junk Car Worth?
Junk car values in Nebraska typically range from $150 to $800 for most standard vehicles. Complete trucks and SUVs sometimes hit $1,200 or more. Several factors shape your specific offer: vehicle weight affects scrap value, while working parts like transmissions, engines, and catalytic converters add real worth. Nebraska’s harsh winters with road salt speed up rust damage, which can lower offers on older vehicles. But the state’s strong agricultural economy creates steady demand for truck parts and larger vehicle components, often pushing up offers for pickups and work vehicles.
Scrap steel prices set the baseline value for any junk car. When steel markets rise, minimum offers increase across Nebraska. Current national scrap rates move with domestic manufacturing demand and export markets. The live price tracker below shows today’s rates, giving you a realistic starting point for what your vehicle’s raw materials are worth before adding in salvageable parts.
Nebraska Junk Car Laws and Title Requirements
Last reviewed 2026-10-05 against Nebraska state sources. Fees and forms change; the official links below are authoritative.
| Who issues titles | Your county treasurer, not a state office. All 93 Nebraska counties run their own motor vehicle title counter. source |
|---|---|
| Duplicate title form and fee | Form RV-707a, Application for Duplicate Certificate of Title, Rev. 09/2025. $14, payable at any motor vehicle office. source |
| Can you sell without a title? | No. Nothing passes without a delivered title. 60-140's substitutes: a 60-1417 sales instrument, a parts-vehicle bill of sale, the pre-1940 affidavit. source |
| Notary required? | No, not on a title assignment. The statute asks only for the owner's signature in the assignment block. source |
| Odometer disclosure required | Model year 2011 and newer until age 20, at 16,000 lb gross rated capacity or less. 2010 and older exempt. source |
| Who keeps the license plates | You do. Return them with the registration and decals to your county treasurer within 60 days for a refund or credit. source |
| Deadline to report the sale | No seller filing exists. If the buyer has not titled in 30 days, you may ask DMV to update the record. source |
| Abandoned / inoperable vehicle statute | 60-1901 (amended 2026): 6 hours unplated, 24 or 48 hours parked on public property, 7 days private, 30 days in police custody. source |
| Salvage or junk title trigger | Salvage: repairs meeting or exceeding 75% of retail on a vehicle 7 model years or newer, or worth over $12,500. source |
| Catalytic converter sale limits | 69-402 makes the recycler take your right index fingerprint and a time-stamped photo; 69-404 bars cash and requires a check. source |
Who Issues a Nebraska Title, and Where the Signatures Go
Title work is county work: under Neb. Rev. Stat. 60-144 the county treasurer issues and files it. On most current titles the seller, purchaser and odometer blocks sit on the face, not the back. Every name on the title signs the seller’s section, and the DMV bars spouses from signing as agent for one another on a transfer of ownership, though one spouse may sign a title application. Fill in the buyer’s name and signature at the sale: a title left with the purchaser side blank is an open title, which the state confiscates. The buyer has thirty days to apply on Form RV-707 with the ten-dollar fee in 60-154.
Replacing a Lost Title Before You Sell
The duplicate runs on Form RV-707a, current revision September 2025, and costs fourteen dollars at any motor vehicle office. 60-156 splits that ten to the county, four to the State Treasurer. Everyone on the face signs, unless the spouse box is checked and one covers both. 60-168, amended by LB97 in 2025, now asks only for a signature; the old sworn-statement requirement is gone. A duplicate carries forward every open lien, so expect the counter to want a release letter.
Where Nebraska Requires a Notary, and Where It Does Not
A Nebraska title assignment is not notarized: 60-153 asks only for the owner’s signature, and the chart county counters use to grade titles puts Nebraska in the no-notary column. The seal belongs elsewhere. The Parts Vehicle Bill of Sale prints “Seller’s Signature – must be notarized.” 60-142.09 covers a car manufactured more than thirty years before you apply, with no major component part replaced and no title of record in any state the DMV can search. It takes a notarized bill of sale, an affidavit and an inspection, filed with the department for twenty-five dollars.
Odometer, Plates and the Tax You Get Back
60-192 retired the ten-year odometer window on January 1, 2021. Disclosure now runs on model year 2011 and newer vehicles until they turn twenty, at sixteen thousand pounds gross rated capacity or below. A 2010 or older car is exempt. Keep your copy five years. Plates do not leave on the flatbed: pull them with the registration and decals, and 60-395 gives you sixty days to bring them to the treasurer for a refund or a credit on the next vehicle.
Junk Titles, Salvage Brands and the Abandonment Clock
60-118.01, new in 2025, defines a junk vehicle as one that cannot operate on a highway and is worth only scrap or parts. 60-169, as amended by LB97, sends the surrender to the Department of Motor Vehicles; the county treasurer wording was struck. The DMV’s junked title page still routes it through a treasurer who forwards it, which is practice, not statute. You sign as seller, enter JUNK as the buyer, surrender the registration, plates and tabs, and the car never returns. Salvage is a separate brand: 60-171 reaches a vehicle seven model years or newer, or worth more than $12,500, once repair cost meets or exceeds seventy-five percent of retail value. An owner may also brand one voluntarily at any age. Abandonment is defined by 60-1901, not 60-1903: six hours unplated on public property, twenty-four where parking is barred, forty-eight once legal parking turns illegal, seven days on private property, thirty in police custody. Getting it back costs removal and storage under 60-1903. City code is tighter: Lincoln allows thirty days under LMC 10.42.110; Omaha bans the car outright, then allows thirty to ninety days to correct.
Selling the Converter on Its Own
69-401 counts a catalytic converter as regulated metals property. 69-402 makes the recycler photocopy your ID, take a date-and-time-stamped photograph of the part and your right index fingerprint, and 69-404 bars cash: a converter is paid by check.
Official Nebraska sources
Cities We Buy Junk Cars in Nebraska
Nebraska runs in bands from the Missouri River west, and the pickup map follows them. The eastern counties carry most of the volume: Douglas County around Omaha, Sarpy County below it, and Washington and Dakota counties upriver. Lancaster County and Lincoln sit southwest of that. From there the route tracks the Platte along Interstate 80 through Grand Island in Hall County, Kearney in Buffalo County and North Platte in Lincoln County, with Bellevue, Fremont and Hastings also inside the service area. North of the Platte the Sandhills open into counties whose seats are towns the size of Mullen, Hyannis and Arthur, and beyond them the Panhandle runs to the Wyoming line.
One Nebraska rule shapes the paperwork more than the terrain does. Titles are county business, and all 93 counties run a motor vehicle title counter, with the metro counties running several branches each, so a Hastings seller files in Adams County and a Fremont seller in Dodge County. The office that issued your plates is also the one that takes them back, and you have sixty days to return them before the unused motor vehicle tax is forfeited. Distance is the other factor. The metal buyers sit in the eastern third of the state, so a car in Cherry County or out in the Panhandle gets routed with other stops rather than collected the afternoon you call.
Don’t see your city? We serve all of Nebraska. Call 1-800-935-8652 to confirm pickup at your location.
Frequently Asked Questions — Selling a Junk Car in Nebraska
Can I sell a junk car in Nebraska without the title?
No. Neb. Rev. Stat. 60-140 withholds every right, title, claim and interest from the buyer until the car and a certificate of title both change hands. The substitutes it names are narrow: a 60-1417 sales instrument, a parts vehicle bill of sale under 60-142, and, for a car manufactured before 1940 with no major component part replaced, a notarized bill of sale plus affidavit under 60-142.01. Replace the title first and call 1-800-935-8652 to hold your quote.
What does a duplicate Nebraska title cost, and who gets the money?
Fourteen dollars. Neb. Rev. Stat. 60-156 divides it ten dollars to the county and four dollars to the State Treasurer for the Department of Motor Vehicles Cash Fund. The form is RV-707a, revised September 2025, and it can be handed to any motor vehicle office in the state rather than only the one that issued the original. Everyone named on the face signs, unless the spouse box is checked and one signature covers both.
Does Nebraska make me get the title notarized when I sell?
No. Neb. Rev. Stat. 60-153 requires the assignment to carry the owner's signature and says nothing about a notary, and the reference chart county counters use lists Nebraska as a no-notary state. The seal does appear elsewhere: the Parts Vehicle Bill of Sale states outright that the seller's signature must be notarized, and the thirty-year classic title route under 60-142.09 needs a notarized bill of sale plus an affidavit.
My pickup is a 2008. Do I still fill in the odometer line?
No. Nebraska dropped the ten-year odometer rule on January 1, 2021. Disclosure now applies to model year 2011 and newer vehicles for twenty years, and only at sixteen thousand pounds gross rated capacity or below. A 2008 is exempt, and the DMV notes that once a title records a reading as exempt, mileage can never be carried on a later title for that vehicle. Hold your copy of any statement you do sign for five years.
What happens to my plates and the registration tax I already paid?
The plates come off before the truck loads. Nebraska registers to the owner, so take the plates, the registration certificate and the validation decals to the county treasurer that issued them. Neb. Rev. Stat. 60-395 lists junking and dismantlement among the events that earn a refund of the unused months, and gives you sixty days from the date of the event to claim it or forfeit it. If you are buying a replacement, the balance becomes a credit instead.
How long can a dead car sit on my property in Nebraska?
State law barely touches private property. Neb. Rev. Stat. 60-1901 makes a car abandoned at seven days only when it was left without the owner's permission or after that permission ended, or once a municipality removes it under its own ordinance. The rest is municipal. Lincoln sets thirty days under LMC 10.42.110, and an unregistered vehicle gets the same limit. Omaha's adopted property maintenance code bans an inoperative or unlicensed car outright, then gives thirty, sixty or ninety days to correct after a notice.