We buy trucks in Cordry Sweetwater Lakes

The node recorded against Cordry Sweetwater Lakes is Camp Atterbury, and it is large. The installation provides full logistical and training support for up to two brigade-sized elements at once on more than 34,000 acres; taken together with Muscatatuck the pair total more than 35,000 acres.

Its coordinate is the centroid of that ground, and it lies 4.19 miles from the lakes — attached here because this is the nearest place holding a page, not because the installation is in it. That coordinate reverse-geocodes to Bartholomew County; which county the lakes themselves sit in was not established for this page, so it is not stated.

What the record does support is the traffic pattern. Base support and contractor work is local, so the trucks that serve a place like this live within a short radius of it rather than running to it from a distance.

That local pattern decides what is parked round here. Ground of 34,000 acres needs earthworks, grading, hauling, water, fencing and building, and almost all of it is done by contractors who own their own equipment.

So the fleet within a short run of Camp Atterbury is the mixed contractor sort rather than a single industry’s: dump trucks, service bodies, flatbeds, rollbacks, and the pickups that carry the crews. Equipment like that accumulates hours far faster than miles, because it spends its day working rather than travelling.

It also turns over on contract cycles. When a job finishes, the truck that did it often stops rather than moving to the next one, and that is the truck this page is looking for.

That kind of work runs into two parts of the Indiana code that ordinary road freight never touches. The state maximums first: 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 tyre width.

Then the allowance. Ind. Code § 9-20-4-2 permits farm commodities to move from the place of production to the first point of delivery where weighed at up to 10% over the gross limit, with logs, wood chips, bark, sawdust and, since 2025, aggregate at up to 10% over gross or axle. It is void on a weight limit imposed for a bridge or a section of highway, and on any part of an interstate.

Then the exemptions, again except on interstates. Highway construction and maintenance machinery, farm drainage machinery, implements of husbandry used during farming operations, and firefighting equipment sit outside the size and weight requirements altogether. So does a recovery vehicle moving a disabled vehicle or combination, for up to 50 miles.

Ind. Code § 9-20-4-1 and § 9-20-4-2, with the recovery-vehicle rule at § 9-20-9-9 and § 9-20-9-10. 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 brands a vehicle salvage where repair to a roadworthy state would cost more than 70 per cent of its fair market value immediately before the damage, and the statute names semitrailers explicitly, so a trailer can carry a brand independently of the tractor. Rebuilding requires a state police officer to verify ownership of the major component parts and the source of those parts — a paperwork audit rather than a condition inspection, and a rebuild done without receipts cannot pass it.

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

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

Box trucks and straight trucks are not a Camp Atterbury 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 lake roads, the contractor yards within a short run of the installation and the ground 4.19 miles out towards Bartholomew 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 contractor truck with far more hours than miles.That is the standard shape of equipment working 34,000 acres of training ground, and it is not a mark against the truck. We look at what is on it rather than at the odometer.
• 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. Anywhere within a short run of Camp Atterbury, or 4.19 miles out at the lakes. 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 round the lakes because the reasons are ordinary. A contract finishing. Retiring. A medical that went the wrong way. A truck standing beside a shed since somebody stopped driving it, costing insurance every month it does not turn a wheel.

Between the lakes and the 34,000 acres of Camp Atterbury 4.19 miles off, 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.