Limestone pits south and north-west of Ellettsville
The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists Bloomington Underground Mine, a crushed-stone quarry, 4 miles south of town, and Lincoln Park Stone Stinesville Quarry, another crushed-stone site, 4.7 miles to the north-west. A dump truck or tractor that shuttles aggregate between those two pits and Ellettsville job sites is a truck we collect, and it can stay parked at the quarry gate or in your own yard while we arrange it. Have the Indiana title and current registration in one folder before you call.
Arlington Hills Quarry, 4.6 miles south-east, is recorded by the Mine Safety and Health Administration as a dimension-stone operation, and Hoadley Portable, at 7.5 miles in the same direction, carries the same listing. Block from these sites moves on flatbeds and heavy tractors, so if yours has spent its life loading cut limestone, photograph the deck, the tie-down points and the cab, and send the VIN with the pictures.
Sand and gravel plants further out
Morgan County Sand & Gravel Plant stands 14.9 miles north-east of Ellettsville on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s mine list, and Yard 78 - Bloomfield sits 23 miles to the south-west. A tri-axle or end-dump that splits its week between those plants does not need to be driven home before a sale; give us the plant name and a contact who can let us onto the lot.
At 14.9 and 23 miles out on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s listings, those two plants sit beyond the four stone quarries that lie between 4 and 7.5 miles from town. If your truck is parked at one of the outlying plants while you live in Ellettsville, tell us which one, and keep the keys and title with whoever will meet us there.
Ellettsville carriers, private fleets and mileage
FMCSA’s carrier census counts 46 active carriers based in Ellettsville, and 42 of them are registered for intrastate work only, with 4 running interstate authority. Of those 46 carriers on the FMCSA census, 38 are private fleets hauling their own goods. Owners of a private-fleet truck should have the business’s name on the title match the seller’s paperwork before we arrive.
Of the drivers tied to Ellettsville carriers, FMCSA’s carrier census puts 104 inside a 100-mile circle of home and 48 outside it. Nine local carriers report annual mileage to FMCSA, and the median Ellettsville truck among them logs 8,445 miles. If your truck stays close to Ellettsville between jobs, tell us the yard or street where it is usually parked.
Equipment, timber and farm loads out of Ellettsville
Twelve Ellettsville carriers tell FMCSA’s carrier census they haul machinery and large objects, nine list logs, poles, beams and lumber, and another nine list general freight. Lowboys, flatbeds and log trucks all fit that mix. If yours carried heavy equipment, include photos of the trailer connection and any winch or ramp so we see the setup as it is.
Six carriers here register farm supplies as a cargo class with the federal motor carrier census. A truck that moved feed, seed or fertiliser around the county is one we collect from the farm itself; give us the road and the gate where it is parked, and have the title signed only when we are there.
From single trucks to a hundred-unit operation
One carrier based here reports 108 power units and 48 drivers to FMCSA, another runs 22 power units with 13 drivers, and a third has 15 power units and 12 drivers. If you manage a fleet of that size and want to sell several trucks together, send a list of VINs with each unit’s current registration and we will plan a single collection.
New registrations in town have been few, with FMCSA’s carrier census showing one new carrier in 2024 and one in 2025. A new operator who bought a truck to start out and now wants to sell it should bring the purchase paperwork and the title; Indiana’s state title office issues a duplicate if the original is missing.
Monroe County
Construction work and farms around town
Ellettsville held 1,932 jobs in 2023 on the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts, and construction accounted for 61 of them, a 3.2 percent share. Nineteen construction firms around Ellettsville appear in the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns. A contractor with a dump truck or a service body truck from that trade can sell it from the job site; we only need the address and someone to hand over the keys.
USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture records 419 farms in Monroe County, with corn, cattle and horses as the leading products. Grain trucks, livestock haulers and horse-trailer tractors from those farms are trucks we collect; photograph any service records kept in the farm office before you contact us.
The questions we get asked in Ellettsville
- Will you pick up a dump truck that sits at a limestone quarry outside Ellettsville?Bloomington Underground Mine sits 4 miles south of town on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list, and a truck parked at a quarry like it is collected where it stands. Name the quarry entrance and the person holding the gate key.
- Does a truck that never crossed the Indiana line qualify for a sale?Forty-two of the 46 carriers in FMCSA’s carrier census for Ellettsville are registered for intrastate work only, and an in-state truck is one we collect like any other. Begin by sending its VIN, Indiana registration and a set of photos.