We buy trucks in Beech Grove

The node attached to Beech Grove is a flour mill, and its coordinate reverse-geocodes to Marion County. A mill is an arrival point rather than a departure one: the interesting traffic is what comes in, and what comes in is grain.

That puts a particular kind of truck on the streets around it. Hopper bottoms and grain hauls coming off farm ground, and behind them the yard tractors, straight trucks and service bodies that any Milling Company site keeps moving.

It also puts those trucks under a piece of Indiana law that most equipment never meets, which is the next section.

That law is an allowance rather than a limit. Indiana’s maximums are 80,000 lb gross, 20,000 lb on a single axle, 34,000 on a tandem, 50,000 on a tri-axle, and 800 lb per inch of tire width measured between the flanges of the rim.

On top of that, Ind. Code § 9-20-4-2 lets farm commodities move from the place of production to the first point of delivery where they are weighed at up to 10% over the gross limit. Logs, wood chips, bark and sawdust get the same, and since 2025 so does aggregate, at up to 10% over gross or axle.

Then it stops, and the stopping is the part worth knowing. The allowance does not apply to a weight limit imposed for a bridge or for a section of highway, and it does not apply on any part of an interstate. So a grain load that is legal on the county road into the mill is not legal on the ramp, and it never was legal over a posted structure.

Ind. Code § 9-20-4-1 and § 9-20-4-2. Information, not legal advice.

Beyond that allowance the statute exempts a short list of equipment from the size and weight requirements outright, again except on interstate highways.

State, county and municipal highway construction and maintenance machinery; highway construction vehicles inside a closed construction area; farm drainage machinery; implements of husbandry used during farming operations; political-subdivision and volunteer firefighting equipment. And recovery vehicles moving a disabled vehicle or combination, for a distance not exceeding 50 miles.

That last one is the reason a rollback or a wrecker is written into the law at all, and it is a real constraint on how a recovery gets planned rather than a footnote. Off the interstate, the law also does not limit the width or height of a farm vehicle loaded with a farm product.

Ind. Code § 9-20-9-9 and § 9-20-9-10, and the exemptions at § 9-20-1. Information, not legal advice.

Beyond the weight rules, the paperwork is one sentence: we need a title unless the truck is old enough that it never had one.

Everything after that sentence is a fix rather than a category. A lost title has a counter replacement; where none exists there is a bonded route. Neither one stops a sale.

Indiana requires a salvage title where the cost of repair exceeds 70 per cent of the fair market value immediately before the damage, which is the lowest numeric threshold on file across the states this research has compared. Where a salvage vehicle is rebuilt and was not flood-damaged, its title has to conspicuously bear the designation “rebuilt vehicle”.

Ind. Code § 9-22-3-3 and § 9-22-3. Information, not legal advice.

None of that narrows what we will look at. Grain hauls and farm trucks, day cabs and road tractors, box trucks and straight trucks, dump trucks and aggregate haulers, flatbeds, rollbacks, tankers, service bodies, and the work trucks and pickups that go with a crew.

Box trucks and straight trucks are not a Marion County thing in particular — they are everywhere. They are on the list because we buy them here too.

Whatever you drive, the offer doesn’t change. The streets round the Milling Company site, the small yards along them and the rest of Marion County are where most of it turns up.

• Does it have to run?No. It does have to be complete — if the engine, transmission, doors, rear ends, drive shafts, wheels or anything under the hood have been removed, we can’t buy it. Rust is not a disqualifier.
• The engine is out of it. Is that different?Yes, and that is the line. A tired engine is fine; an engine that has been pulled out and sold means we can’t buy the truck.
• What about the title?We need one unless the truck is old enough that it never had one. Lost titles have a counter replacement; where none exists there’s a bonded route.
• It is a farm truck that only ever ran to the mill and back.That is a short-haul life with a lot of loading in it, and it is exactly the history the ground round the Milling Company site produces. Low miles with high hours is normal here and is not a mark against the truck.
• Do you buy wreckers and rollbacks?Yes. A recovery vehicle is a truck like any other to us, and the fifty-mile rule that shapes how it works does not change what it is worth looking at. All of Marion County either way. We come to you and drive it away, we come to you and tow it, we buy it remotely and arrange the tow, or you drive it to us.

Those answers matter in a place this close to a city because the reasons are ordinary. A business changing hands. Retiring. A medical that went the wrong way. A truck standing behind a building since somebody stopped driving it, costing insurance every month it does not turn a wheel.

Around Marion County, and on the streets between here and the Milling Company site, there is usually one waiting.

Most of those aren’t happy reasons, and we don’t treat them like they are. Somebody wants a straight answer and the truck gone by the end of the week. That’s what we’re here for.