New Point and Napoleon stone
New Point Quarry, where crushed stone is produced 6.7 miles west of town, is on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s register. A tri-axle or quad-axle dump that hauls aggregate from New Point is often parked at the quarry or at a yard nearby rather than in town, so tell us the gate it sits behind and who holds the key.
Two operations named Napoleon Quarry, one cutting dimension stone and one producing crushed stone, appear 8.5 miles south-west of town in Mine Safety and Health Administration listings, alongside New Point Stone Co’s Napoleon site at the same distance. Flatbeds that carry cut blocks and dumps that carry gravel both come out of that corner of Ripley County. Photograph the bed, the hoist or deck and the cab, and send them with the VIN.
If your stone truck still carries a quarry access sticker or site safety card, leave it in the cab and mention it when you get in touch. It tells us where the tractor has worked without you having to write it out.
Sand and gravel pits and the Honda rail yards
Seventeen miles east, New Trenton Pit is recorded by the Mine Safety and Health Administration as a sand and gravel operation, and the same agency places Connersville Pit 22.1 miles north. A truck based at either pit can be collected where it stands; we do not need it driven back to Batesville first.
According to the North American Rail Network kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, a rail yard named HONDA PLANT lies 17.8 miles west and HONDA AUTOLOAD 18.9 miles west. A day cab that shuttles between those yards and local warehouses should come with its registration and any service records you kept, so the history is on paper before we arrive.
Batesville USDOT holders, from new starts to big fleets
FMCSA’s carrier census counts 117 active carriers with a Batesville address: 46 run interstate and 71 stay inside Indiana, while 89 operate as private fleets hauling their own goods. Whichever group you belong to, have your USDOT number ready along with the title, since it lets us match the truck to the registration on file.
Seven new carriers registered here in 2025 and two in 2024, per that same FMCSA census. If you started an operation recently and are now selling the tractor, a title issued in the last year or two works the same as an older one; send a photo of the front and back so we can confirm the owner name matches yours.
Among the three biggest operations on the FMCSA census for Batesville, one lists 515 power units and 503 drivers, another 390 power units and 771 drivers, and a third 192 power units and 201 drivers. Fleet sellers with several units can send one spreadsheet of VINs and locations rather than a separate message for each truck.
General freight, machinery, grain and logs
General freight is declared by 44 local carriers in FMCSA’s carrier census, with machinery and large objects close behind at 43. Dry vans, step-decks and lowboys all fit that mix; if you are selling a tractor with its trailer, give us the trailer VIN and its own title too.
Grain, feed and hay are hauled by 25 carriers on the FMCSA census, and logs, poles, beams and lumber by 23. We pick up a grain hopper or a knuckleboom log truck at the farm, the mill yard or the lot behind your house. Tell us whether the loader or headache rack is staying on the truck, so the listing we work from is accurate.
Fleet age and how far trucks travel
FMCSA roadside inspection records from August 2024 to August 2026 cover 589 trucks tied to Batesville carriers; their median model year is 2023, and 14.6 percent were ten or more model years old. Whatever the year of your truck, the registration card and the title are the two documents we ask for first.
Carriers here report 454 drivers working within 100 miles and 1,380 going beyond that radius, the FMCSA carrier census shows. Among 45 carriers that reported mileage to the same census, the median is 10,000 miles per truck. If your tractor is out on a long run right now, tell us where it will be parked when it comes home and we will arrange the collection there.
Batesville’s manufacturing and construction payrolls
Manufacturing accounts for 1,909 of the 7,172 jobs in Batesville, or 26.6 percent, by the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts for 2023. The same LEHD figures put 592 jobs, 8.3 percent, in transportation and warehousing and 210 in wholesale trade. Box trucks and straight trucks that run between plant docks and distribution space are part of what we take on; keep the liftgate service record with the title if the truck has one.
Batesville has 47 construction establishments in the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns and 177 construction jobs in the LEHD job counts. Contractors selling a dump, a flatbed with a crane or a mixer can have it collected from the job site; give us the site address and the name of whoever is there to let the driver in.
Hog barns and grain fields around Batesville
USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 835 farms in Ripley County, where soybeans, corn and hogs head the list. Grain trucks with hoist beds, livestock haulers and tractor-trailers used at harvest are often parked in a machine shed or at the edge of a field. A pin dropped on a map is enough for us to find it.
A Ripley County grain truck may carry a farm partnership’s name on its title instead of yours. If yours is, send the title with the name of the person who can sign for that business, along with farm plates or registration, so there is no delay at the paperwork stage.
The questions we get asked in Batesville
- My stone dump sits at the Napoleon quarry, south-west of Batesville. Can the pickup happen at the quarry itself?Napoleon Quarry sits 8.5 miles south-west of town by the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s listing, and we collect from there. Name the Napoleon site staff member who unlocks the quarry gate for our driver.
- My grain truck works Ripley County soybean and corn fields. Which papers matter for the sale?With 835 farms in Ripley County on USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, plenty of grain trucks are titled to a farm rather than a driver. Have that title, the registration and photos of the bed and cab ready, plus the name of whoever signs for the farm.
- My tractor is registered for interstate hauls out of Batesville. Is the sale handled any differently?Forty-six Batesville carriers run interstate on FMCSA’s carrier census, and selling one of their tractors works the same way as an intrastate unit. Send your USDOT number, the title and the location where the truck will be parked.
- Our Batesville operation has several power units to sell. What do you need from a fleet owner?FMCSA’s census shows Batesville operations with as many as 515 power units. Send one list with each VIN, its title status and where the truck is parked.