Private fleets and for-hire haulers on Montgomery County roads
FMCSA’s carrier census shows 188 active carriers based in Crawfordsville, and 131 of them are private fleets moving their own goods rather than freight for hire. If your truck belongs to a farm, a plant or a contractor’s yard, have the title in the business name ready along with whoever is authorised to sign for that business.
Of those 188, the federal carrier census counts 149 operating only inside Indiana and 39 crossing state lines. A tractor that has stayed on Montgomery County roads usually carries an Indiana registration only; one that ran interstate may also have apportioned plates and a cab card, so send photos of both with the VIN.
New registrations keep arriving: 12 carriers signed up in 2025 and 8 in 2024, by FMCSA’s census. If you started an operation in one of those years and are now winding it down, the paperwork we ask for is the same as for a long-standing fleet: title, registration and a clear photo of the odometer.
Grain wagons, general freight and machinery loads
General freight leads the cargo listings in the federal motor carrier census at 63 local carriers, with grain, feed and hay next at 39 and machinery and large objects at 37. Box trucks, hopper-bottom tractors and lowboy rigs all fit those three lines of work, so tell us which trailer the tractor usually pulled.
Another 23 carriers in town list farm supplies as cargo, according to FMCSA. Seed, fertiliser and feed haulers often keep trucks parked at a farmstead between seasons; give us the road the lane turns off and whether a tractor-trailer can turn around in the yard.
Equipment movers in the machinery group may have tractors set up with wet kits or heavy-spec axles; list those options when you write to us, and photograph the axle tags and the fifth wheel alongside the cab.
Gravel north of town, stone to the south
The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists the Crawfordsville Plant, a sand and gravel operation, just 3.5 miles north of the city. Dump trucks and tri-axles that load there are often kept close by, and we collect at the pit’s lot, your shop or your driveway, whichever is easier.
Further out, US Aggregates’ Thorntown Sand and Gravel sits 15.6 miles east and Bainbridge Quarry LLC, a crushed-stone quarry, lies 21 miles south, both on MSHA’s mine register. If your dump truck sits on quarry property, tell us who controls the gate so collection is arranged with the site.
Aggregate haulers can keep scale tickets and the federal annual inspection sheet with the truck. Put those with the title when we come out; they show us how the truck was set up and which loads it was rated for.
Montgomery County farm ground
Corn leads soybeans and cattle across the 651 Montgomery County farms tallied by USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture. Straight trucks with grain beds, cattle pots and semi tractors that pull hoppers at harvest are all trucks we buy here.
A farm truck registered on Indiana farm plates still needs its title for the sale. If that title is lost, Indiana’s state title agency issues a replacement, so start that request before we schedule the pickup.
Cattle haulers serving the county’s farms should note the trailer’s make and deck layout if it goes with the tractor, and say plainly whether we are buying the tractor alone or the pair.
Work and fuel
Plants, warehouses and the Lebanon terminal
Manufacturing accounts for 3,283 of the 10,474 jobs located in Crawfordsville, a 31.3 percent share in the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts for 2023, while transportation and warehousing holds 959. Box trucks and day cabs that shuttle parts between plant docks are common here; send the body length and liftgate details with your photos.
Crawfordsville holds 55 construction firms against just 3 warehousing establishments, per the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns. A contractor’s flatbed or a warehouse straight truck can be collected from the job yard as long as someone can hand over keys and title there.
The Energy Information Administration lists a petroleum product terminal at Lebanon, 22.2 miles east. Fuel tankers that load there may hold hazmat placards and tank test records; keep the test paperwork with the truck so we can see the tank’s history.
Rail and fleet
Rail yards to the north and the trucks on the road
Two rail yards, one named South and one serving Subaru of Indiana, sit 23.3 and 23.7 miles north on the North American Rail Network kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Drayage tractors working those yards can be picked up wherever they park after a shift.
Among 64 Crawfordsville trucks stopped for FMCSA roadside inspections from September 2024 to August 2026, the middle model year was 2019, and 31.25 percent dated back ten model years or more. Whatever the year of yours, a photo of the door-jamb label with the build date helps us identify it.
Median annual mileage for the 42 local carriers reporting it stands at 26,933 miles per truck in FMCSA’s census, and its driver figures show 262 drivers staying within 100 miles against 193 going beyond. Give us the odometer reading as it stands today, and say whether the truck mostly ran short local routes or longer trips.
The questions we get asked in Crawfordsville
- Does a tri-axle sitting at the Crawfordsville Plant gravel pit have to be hauled into town first?The Crawfordsville Plant sand and gravel operation is 3.5 miles north of town by the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s listing, and we collect from a site like that. Give us the gate contact and the truck’s spot on the property.
- I farm in Montgomery County and lost the title to my grain truck, so which office replaces it?Montgomery County’s 651 farms, counted in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, title their trucks through Indiana’s state title agency, which issues replacements. File that request, then send us the grain truck’s VIN while it is processed.
- Can a Crawfordsville manufacturer that runs its own delivery trucks sell them to you?Private fleets make up 131 of the 188 active Crawfordsville carriers in FMCSA’s census, and we buy from them. Have the title in the company name and a person authorised to sign.
- My tractor pulled a fuel tanker out of the Lebanon terminal, so which papers and photos matter?Lebanon’s petroleum product terminal, 22.2 miles east on the Energy Information Administration’s list, is one we know tankers load at. Send the VIN, odometer reading, photos and any tank test records, and say whether the trailer is included.