Sell your semi truck for cash in Ferdinand the easy and convenient way

Manufacturing accounts for 2,528 of the 3,577 jobs that the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts place in Ferdinand for 2023, a 70.7 percent share. A box truck or tractor that shuttles parts and finished goods for a plant here is the kind we collect from a dock or a yard; tell us which lot it is parked on so the driver can find it.

Construction holds 145 jobs, or 4.1 percent, in that same 2023 LEHD tally, and County Business Patterns from the Census Bureau records 21 construction establishments. Dump trucks, flatbeds and service bodies from those crews can be sold from a job site as easily as from a shop, as long as the title is in hand and the keys are with the truck.

On the farms that ring Ferdinand, USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture finds 740 operations across Dubois County, raising mostly corn, soybeans and hogs. A grain hopper or a livestock tractor from that work may be parked at a farm lane rather than a lot; send a pin or directions and a photo of the approach so we know what the pickup truck will face.

Among the 64 active carriers in FMCSA’s carrier census, 25 list grain, feed and hay as a cargo and 23 list farm supplies. If your truck hauled for a farm operation, have the registration and any service records together before the call, since a seasonal truck is often the one whose paperwork has been sitting in a drawer.

Seventeen carriers registered here list logs, poles, beams and lumber, by the count in FMCSA’s census, and 27 list general freight. A log truck with a loader or a dry van tractor both fit what we buy. Send photos of the cab, the frame and any mounted equipment with your first message.

Fifty of those 64 operations run as private fleets under FMCSA registration, hauling their own goods, while 20 run interstate and 44 stay intrastate. FMCSA’s census shows the biggest local fleet with 25 power units and 24 drivers and the next with 8 units and 13 drivers. Clearing several trucks from one yard at once? List each VIN and we will plan one visit around them.

FMCSA registrations show 121 drivers working within 100 miles of base and 100 going beyond that radius. That split means a truck for sale here could be at home in town or out on a longer run; tell us where it will sit on the day you want it gone.

Twenty-one carriers report mileage to FMCSA, and their median comes to 15,000 miles per truck in a year. Have the odometer reading ready with the VIN when you get in touch; those two figures are the first things we ask for.

FMCSA roadside inspection records from August 2024 to August 2026 cover 29 trucks run by carriers based in Ferdinand, with a median model year of 2016. We buy trucks from across that spread of model years, a 2016 tractor and a straight truck from any year alike.

Just over half of those 29 inspected Ferdinand trucks, 55 percent by FMCSA’s records, carried a model year ten or more years back. Whatever the year on yours, keep its last inspection report with the title; it answers questions about the truck before we have to ask them.

Six and a third miles north-west of town, the North American Rail Network maps the Huntingburg rail yard, and the Mine Safety and Health Administration lists Huntingburg Mill, an industrial-mineral mine, at 7.9 miles in that same direction. A truck that has run between those sites and Ferdinand can be collected at either end; give us the address where it is parked.

Westward, the Mine Safety and Health Administration lists two coal mines, Log Creek Surface and Charter #1, both 21.6 miles from town, and the Oakland City Jct rail yard on the North American Rail Network is 24.8 miles out. A dump truck or tractor parked at a mine lot that far west is not a problem for pickup; just tell us whether site access needs a call ahead.

Of 22 bridges on the National Bridge Inventory around Ferdinand, none carries a posted load limit and none clears under fourteen feet. That means a loaded rollback or a tractor with a lowboy can reach most yards here without a detour, so the parking address is usually all we need.

For a missing title, the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles issues duplicates through its BMV branches, and the nearest one to Ferdinand is the Dale branch at 11 N Walnut Street, Dale, 47523, about 8 miles away. Apply for the duplicate there before you set a pickup date; we can only take the truck with a title in your name.

If the title shows a lien, bring the lender’s release along to the Dale branch or have it ready for us. Registration, the duplicate title and a photo ID are the three papers that let a sale in Ferdinand close on the day we arrive.

• Do you pick up trucks parked at a farm outside Ferdinand?Dubois County has 740 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, and we collect from farm lanes and barnyards as readily as from town lots. A dropped pin and a picture of the lane into the farm are enough to plan the trip.
• Which BMV branch should a Ferdinand seller use for a lost title?The Dale branch of the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles, at 11 N Walnut Street, Dale, 47523, is about 8 miles from town and handles duplicate titles.
• Will you buy a log truck with a loader?Seventeen carriers registered in Ferdinand under FMCSA list logs, poles, beams and lumber, and their trucks are ones we buy, loader included. Photos of the boom and the frame help.
• Can you collect a truck parked at a coal mine to the west?Log Creek Surface and Charter #1, listed by the Mine Safety and Health Administration 21.6 miles west of Ferdinand, are within our pickup area. Tell us whether the site needs a call ahead for access.