Pit roads past Montezuma
Gravel trucks from the Montezuma and Parke County pits
Two sand and gravel operations lie within eight miles of Fairview Park on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s records: the Montezuma Plant at 6.8 miles and Parke County Aggregates LLC at 7.7 miles, both north-east. A tandem or tri-axle dump that has loaded at either site is a truck we will look at, and it can stay parked wherever it last hauled from.
Before you call, photograph the dump body, the hoist and the hitch along with the cab and the VIN plate. If the truck spent its seasons on one of those two pit roads, name the pit so the driver who collects it knows where to go.
Further out, the Pro-Agr industrial-mineral mine appears 20.3 miles north of town in the same Mine Safety and Health Administration listing. Owners whose trucks worked that run can describe the route in a sentence and send the registration with their photos.
South toward the yards
Two yards south and an airfield south-east
Thirteen miles south of Fairview Park, the North American Rail Network kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics marks two rail yards, DUANE and CONMIL, a tenth of a mile apart. Day cabs that shuttled freight to and from those yards fit the trucks we purchase, and a tractor kept near the tracks can be collected right there.
Hulman Fld, a military installation the Bureau of Transportation Statistics places 17.1 miles south-east, lies on roughly the same southern side of town. If your truck is parked anywhere along that stretch rather than at home in Fairview Park, give us the street address and the name of whoever holds the gate key.
Grain trucks off corn, soybean and wheat ground
Around Fairview Park, farmland fills the map: USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 291 farms in Vermillion County, with corn, soybeans and wheat listed as the top crops. Straight trucks with grain beds and tractors that pulled hopper trailers at harvest are both welcome here.
Your Fairview Park grain truck may be parked in a pole barn or at the edge of a soybean field right now. Tell us which farm lane it is on and whether a rollback can reach it, and send photos of the bed, the tarp and the tires next to the cab.
If the truck is titled to a farm partnership rather than to you personally, have whoever signs for the farm ready to sign the title too.
A missing title goes through the Clinton BMV branch
The Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles handles duplicate titles through its BMV branches, and the closest one to Fairview Park is the Clinton branch at 123 N Main St, Clinton, 47842, just 1.7 miles away by the Bureau’s own branch map. A seller who cannot find the title can apply there for a replacement before the truck is collected.
Bring your registration and photo ID to the Clinton counter. If a lender is still listed on the title, ask the lender for its lien release first, so the replacement title the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles issues comes back clear.
What to gather in Fairview Park before the call
With 1,470 residents on the Census Bureau’s count, Fairview Park is small enough that most trucks here are kept in a yard, a barn or a driveway rather than a fleet lot. Wherever yours stands, the list is short: the title, the current registration, any service records you kept, and clear photos from all four corners.
Send the VIN and the odometer reading first. Everything else we ask follows from those two, and the pickup is arranged around where the truck sits, whether that is near the gravel pits, the southern rail yards or a farm lane in Vermillion County.
The questions we get asked in Fairview Park
- Which BMV branch serves Fairview Park if I can’t find the title?The Clinton branch of the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles, at 123 N Main St, Clinton, 47842, is 1.7 miles from Fairview Park and handles duplicate title applications.
- Will you take a hopper tractor that hauled corn and soybeans around Fairview Park?Vermillion County’s 291 farms, counted by USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, grow mostly corn, soybeans and wheat, and the straight trucks and hopper tractors that haul those crops are trucks we buy.