Gravel pits and stone quarries on both sides of Fairmount
Six and a half miles east of Fairmount, the Mine Safety and Health Administration lists Grant County Sand and Gravel, a sand and gravel operation. A dump truck or tri-axle that runs loads out of that pit can be collected right where it is parked between shifts, so give us the yard address and the name of whoever holds the keys.
Pipe Creek Jr and Calcium Products Co, both crushed-stone quarries, sit about 8.4 miles west of town according to Mine Safety and Health Administration records. If your truck hauls stone from either one, send photos of the bed, the frame and the VIN plate along with the cab, plus any service records you keep in the glovebox.
Further out, the Anderson Plant sand and gravel operation lies 19.8 miles south of Fairmount, in the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s listing. A truck that splits its week between the Anderson pit and the quarries west of town can stay at whichever site is easier to reach on the day we come for it.
Thirty active carriers, most of them working inside Indiana
FMCSA’s carrier census counts 30 active carriers based in Fairmount; 26 of them run intrastate and only 4 cross state lines. For a seller that usually means the truck is on an Indiana title and parked close to home, which keeps the collection simple.
Of those 30 carriers, 21 operate as private fleets, hauling their own goods rather than freight for hire, the federal carrier census shows. If your truck belongs to a farm or a business that keeps one or two units, have the title in the name of that business and a signed authorization from whoever can sell for it.
The fleets here are small: the largest Fairmount operation on FMCSA’s census runs 19 power units with 19 drivers, the next runs 3, and another runs a single truck. One truck or a handful from the same yard can be picked up on one visit if you list each VIN when you contact us.
Grain, machinery and lumber on Fairmount’s trucks
General freight is the most common cargo among carriers here, with 7 listing it on FMCSA’s carrier census, while 5 haul grain, feed and hay and 5 move machinery and large objects. Tell us what your truck pulled and which trailer goes with it, since a hopper bottom or a lowboy changes what we need to see in the photos.
A log truck or a flatbed with stake pockets should be photographed with its bunks or rails in place, and any loader or crane on it should be named in your description.
A grain truck or livestock hauler that only comes out at harvest is welcome too; tell us where it is stored for the rest of the year so we can reach it.
A day cab that shuttles freight to either yard can be collected at the rail site if you arrange gate access ahead of time.
Two petroleum product terminals listed under Muncie sit roughly 17.7 and 17.8 miles south-east of town, the Energy Information Administration reports. Fuel haulers that load there should keep tank inspection certificates and hazmat paperwork with the truck and mention the trailer’s spec when they send photos.
A manufacturing payroll and short trips
The Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts put 364 jobs in Fairmount in 2023, and manufacturing accounts for 109 of them, close to three in ten. Box trucks and straight trucks that serve local plants are part of what we buy, so let us know the body type and the liftgate if it has one.
Drivers with Fairmount carriers mostly stay close: FMCSA’s carrier census shows 65 working inside a hundred-mile radius against 14 who go further. That points to a truck that returns to town most nights, which makes it easy for us to find it at its home yard.
A missing title in Indiana is replaced by the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles through its BMV branches, and the closest to Fairmount is the Marion branch at 834 N Miller Ave, Marion, 46952, about 11 miles away. Start the duplicate title application before we schedule the collection, since we need the title in hand to complete the sale.
Bring the registration, a photo ID and any lien release to the Marion counter, and if a lender is still on the title, ask the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles how the release is recorded. Once the title is clear, send a photo of the front and back with your other pictures of the truck.