Owen County
Where Coal City sits
Coal City is in Owen County, and the census counts 161 people here, at 444 per square mile, with a median age of 48.3 years.
What we know about Coal City is what the census records and what Indiana law requires; the yards, pits and depots we have researched elsewhere have no entry here. So the question we can actually answer is how a truck gets out, not who else might want it.
Indiana weight law
That road has a number on it
That route out is where the state stops being an abstraction. Indiana sets the ceiling before any local sign lowers it.
In Indiana the overall cap weight limit is 80,000 lb (IC 9-20-4-1).
In Indiana the single axle weight limit is 20,000 lb (IC 9-20-4-1).
In Indiana the tandem weight limit is 34,000 lb (IC 9-20-4-1).
So what leaves Coal City
That rule meets 161 people in Coal City, Owen County, at a household median around $35,357 and a density of 444 per square mile. A truck sitting in a driveway here is a working asset that has stopped working, whatever the size of the place it stopped in.
What we take out of a place like this is sleeper tractors and day cabs, dump trucks and roll-offs, box trucks and flatbeds, pickups and duallys, and the service and utility bodies that outlive the business that bought them.
Straight answers
The questions we get asked in Coal City
Do you actually come to Owen County? Yes. 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.
Do you come out to a place this size? 161 people at 444 per square mile is a place we reach the same way we reach anywhere else. The truck decides whether we buy it, not the population.
How do you pay? We pay either cash or electronically.