Corn is the top farm product in 80 of Indiana's 92 counties in USDA's 2022 census, and soybeans lead eight of the rest, so start there: the grain truck at harvest is as much the Indiana truck as anything on I-65. In the census FMCSA published in October 2026, close to 47,000 carriers give an Indiana address, six in ten registered for in-state work only and a little over half of them private fleets. Nine thousand of them carry machinery and large objects, six thousand carry grain, feed and hay, five and a half thousand carry logs, poles and lumber, five thousand carry farm supplies, and four and a half thousand carry motor vehicles. Picture the trucks: the semi truck pulling a hopper out of a Tipton County elevator, a heavy-haul tractor moving a press between the plants around Kokomo and Lafayette, the car hauler out of the Fort Wayne and Princeton plants, a tri-axle dump truck loading at a quarry in Bloomington or Sellersburg, a coal truck around Petersburg and Lynnville, and the pickup or straight truck a private fleet keeps for its own work. Every one of those is a truck we'd buy.
The rock is the thing Indiana ships that nobody else has quite the same. The limestone belt around Bedford, Oolitic, Bloomington and Stanford cuts dimension stone at fourteen quarries in our data, Empire, Eureka, Victor and Adams among them, and there are 78 crushed-stone quarries from Fort Wayne, Huntington and Bluffton to Corydon, Paoli, Mitchell and Jeffersonville, with 65 sand and gravel pits besides. Cement comes out of Mitchell, Greencastle and Logansport. The coal mines sit in the southwest, Bear Run at Pleasantville, Gibson South at Owensville, Oaktown, Francisco and Lynnville, with the preparation plants at Francisco and Oaktown. Barges load at the state's two port districts, on the Ohio in the south and on Lake Michigan in the north, and containers go onto rail at Indianapolis and the Plainfield terminal at Avon. The racks at Hammond, Whiting, East Chicago and Griffith up by Chicago, at Indianapolis, Speedway and Zionsville, at Evansville and Mount Vernon on the river, at Huntington, Lebanon, Peru, Muncie, South Bend and Seymour fill the tankers. The 65 rail yards run from Lake Front at East Chicago and Kirk at Gary down to Hawthorne and Avon at Indianapolis, Hulman at Terre Haute and Howell at Evansville. Grissom, Camp Atterbury, the Navy's Crane base at Burns City and the Muscatatuck training center keep military fleets. Say where the truck is and whether you want it collected, bought from a distance, or you'd rather drive it in.
Eighty thousand, twenty, thirty-four
Indiana writes its weight law the federal way: 80,000 pounds gross, 20,000 on a single axle and 34,000 on a tandem under Indiana Code 9-20-4-1, and then the counties post their roads lower where the road needs it.
A grain truck that ran at the cap every fall, a quad-axle dump truck, a heavy-haul tractor that moved on permits and a dually that never crossed a scale are four different working lives and one conversation with us.
Any BMV branch
A lost title is replaced at any BMV branch with a photo ID. In Indianapolis there are branches at 10101 East Washington Street, 4050 Meadows Parkway, 3919 Madison Avenue, 5620 Crawfordsville Road and 3841 South Emerson Avenue in Beech Grove; in Fort Wayne at 10204 Coldwater Road and 6011 Bluffton Road; in Evansville at 808 South Green River Road; in South Bend at 1139 East Ireland Road; in Gary at 661 Broadway; in Hammond at 7931 Indianapolis Boulevard; in Lafayette at 2200 Elmwood Avenue; in Terre Haute at 2920 Professional Lane.
A lien is paid off before the title moves, so the lender's figure is the first call. Indiana brands a trailer salvage on its own, apart from the tractor, so a branded title on either is a thing to mention when you write and no more than that. Then the first message: year, make, model and VIN, a set of photos, a photo of the title, and the town. Sleeper, day cab, heavy-haul tractor, dump truck, roll-off, mixer, garbage truck, wrecker or rotator, log truck, tanker, boom or crane truck, box truck, straight truck, utility truck, pickup or dually: the message is the same for all of them, and so is the answer, an offer.