Two pits a short haul east
Sand and gravel a few minutes from Brooklyn
Littleton & Sons Sand & Supply lies 4.9 miles east of Brooklyn, and Waverly Sand & Gravel is 5.2 miles out in that same direction, both listed by the Mine Safety and Health Administration as sand and gravel operations. A dump truck or tri-axle that loads at either pit is the kind of truck we collect around here. Send the VIN, a few photos of the bed, cab and tires, and tell us whether it sits at home or on a pit lot.
If the truck is parked at one of those east-side pits rather than in your driveway, give us the operator’s gate contact along with the address. We collect from the pit itself.
Keep the registration and any service records in the cab or in a folder you can photograph. Include pictures of those papers with the photos of the truck.
Stone hauled from the north-east
Quarries and aggregates to the north-east
Riverside Aggregates & Materials, an industrial-mineral mine, is 9.9 miles north-east of town according to the Mine Safety and Health Administration. Further along that line the Mine Safety and Health Administration records the Harding Street Quarry at 14.6 miles and the Kentucky Avenue Mine at 15.1 miles, both crushed-stone quarries.
Owners in Brooklyn who haul stone from those quarries often run end dumps or tractors pulling dump trailers. Tell us which you have, whether the trailer is part of the sale, and where each piece is parked if they are kept apart.
A truck left at a quarry yard on the Indianapolis side can stay there. Share the yard’s address and a phone number for whoever opens the gate, and we arrange the collection with them directly.
Ramp and yards up Plainfield way
Plainfield intermodal and the Avon yard
The Bureau of Transportation Statistics places the Indianapolis Plainfield Intermodal Terminal, a rail intermodal ramp, 14.6 miles north of Brooklyn. Day cabs and sleepers that pull containers on and off that ramp are trucks we purchase, along with the chassis if you own it.
Per the North American Rail Network kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, the Avon rail yard is 14.7 miles to the north and the Vertellus yard is 15.7 miles north-east. A tractor that has shuttled freight between those yards and the Plainfield ramp should come with its registration and the odometer reading in the photos you send.
Own a tractor parked near Avon or Plainfield? Tell us that location rather than your Brooklyn address. The pickup is planned for wherever the truck actually is.
Hog and grain haulers
Grain trucks and stock trailers from Brooklyn farms
Around Brooklyn and across Morgan County, USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 506 farms, with corn, soybeans and hogs as the leading products. Grain trucks, livestock haulers and the tractors that pull hopper trailers from those farms all fit what we purchase.
A farm truck often spends most of the year in a machine shed between harvests. Let us know which outbuilding it is in and whether there is room to load it out, and have the title in the owner’s name ready when we arrive.
A missing title goes through Martinsville
Indiana titles are handled by the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles through its BMV branches, and the nearest to Brooklyn is the Martinsville branch at 1391 East Morgan St, Martinsville, 46151, 8.4 miles from town. If the title has gone missing, a duplicate title application through the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles is the route to a replacement.
Start that duplicate before you contact us if you can, and tell us when you do so we know where it stands. A title that names a lender should come with the lien release.
The questions we get asked in Brooklyn
- My dump truck stays at a pit east of Brooklyn - does it have to come home first?Littleton & Sons and Waverly Sand & Gravel sit about five miles east of town on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list, and we collect from a pit lot like those. Share the pit’s address and whoever holds the gate key.
- I cannot find the title - who in Indiana replaces it for a Brooklyn owner?The Martinsville BMV branch of the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles, at 1391 East Morgan St, is 8.4 miles from Brooklyn and handles duplicate titles. Apply there and let us know the request is in progress.
- Do you take grain or livestock trucks from Morgan County farms?Corn, soybeans and hogs lead the 506 Morgan County farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, and the grain trucks and livestock haulers that serve them are trucks we purchase. A VIN and a handful of photos of the box or trailer get it started.