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

The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists a sand and gravel operation at Edinburgh, 8.9 miles south-east of Franklin, and IMI Greenwood Sand & Gravel 12 miles to the north-west. A dump truck or tri-axle that shuttles between those pits and Johnson County job sites is often parked at the pit itself between loads, so tell us which gate it sits behind and who holds the key.

Two crushed-stone quarries sit a little further out: Dinn Quarry, 15.7 miles south-east, and the Harding Street Quarry surface operation, 16.1 miles north-west, both on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s register. The Mine Safety and Health Administration also lists Riverside Aggregates & Materials, an industrial-mineral mine 14 miles north-west. If your truck hauled from any of them, photograph the body, the hoist and the tailgate along with the cab and send the VIN with the pictures.

Of the 272 active Franklin operators on FMCSA’s carrier census, 116 tick general freight among the loads they haul. Sixty list machinery and large objects, the cargo lowboys and step-decks are built for; tell us the trailer type when you describe the tractor, since we buy both.

Grain, feed and hay shows up for 40 Franklin carriers in that federal census, and logs, poles, beams and lumber for 31. A grain hopper or a log trailer kept on a farm lot outside town is no harder for us to reach than one in a town yard, so give us the road, the nearest crossroad and a phone number for whoever lives there.

Of those 272 operators, FMCSA records 187 running intrastate only, 85 crossing state lines, and 181 classed as private fleets hauling their own goods. If your truck carried your own company’s freight, have the title and the current registration in the business name ready, along with a note of who in the company can sign.

Roadside inspection records kept by FMCSA cover 191 Franklin-based trucks checked between September 2024 and August 2026; their median model year is 2020, and 15.7 percent were ten or more model years old. Whatever year yours is, the model year, engine make and transmission are the three details that let us describe it back to you accurately.

Across the 72 local carriers that report mileage to FMCSA, a truck covers a median of 50,184 miles a year. Read the odometer before you call, and if the truck carries an engine-hours meter, note that figure too, and send both figures with the photos.

Franklin carriers report 474 drivers working within 100 miles of base and 431 going beyond it, according to the federal carrier census. A short-radius truck usually comes home to Franklin each night, so we can plan the collection there; a long-haul truck may be in another state on the day you call, and you should tell us where it will next stop.

The FMCSA census shows one locally based fleet running 55 power units with 100 drivers, another with 46 units and 41 drivers, and a third with 28 units and 26 drivers. Selling several trucks out of one yard is handled as one job: list each VIN with its title status and we will schedule them together.

New entrants keep arriving, with FMCSA registering 18 new Franklin carriers in 2025 and 11 in 2024. If you started up recently and are now parking a tractor, the title and your USDOT number are the two things we ask for first.

Franklin’s plants held 2,371 of its 14,544 jobs in 2023, a 16.3 percent manufacturing share on the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts. Transportation and warehousing adds 1,021 jobs, wholesale trade 513 and construction 463 on the same LEHD tally. Box trucks and tractors that run between plants and docks here can be collected from a shipping yard, provided someone on site knows we are coming.

There are 89 construction firms and just 4 warehousing firms on the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns tally for this area. Contractors’ dump trucks, flatbeds and water trucks tend to sit on job sites or at a contractor’s shop; send the site address and any gate code with the photos.

Johnson County held 520 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, with corn, soybeans and wheat the leading crops. A straight truck or semi that hauls harvest to the elevator can be picked up from the farm itself; have the title and the farm or business registration together before we arrive.

Of the 35 bridges in Franklin listed in the National Bridge Inventory, none is load-posted and one clears less than 14 feet: the Home Avenue bridge over Youngs Creek, at 9 ft 2 in. If the truck is parked on a street that only reaches the main road under that span, tell us, and we will route the collection around it.

North of town, the Hill rail yard sits 17.7 miles away on the North American Rail Network maintained by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. NG Camp Atterbury lies 13.6 miles south and NG Shelbyville 14 miles east, both military installations on the Bureau of Transportation Statistics’ list; a truck parked near either should be somewhere we can reach without a base pass, so say if it is behind a controlled gate.

• Our tri-axle sits inside the Edinburgh gravel pit gate. Can you collect it there rather than in town?Edinburgh’s sand and gravel operation is 8.9 miles south-east of Franklin on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list, and we collect from the pit. Give us the operator’s contact so the gate is open when we arrive.
• I haul corn and soybeans to the elevator in a straight truck. Is a farm truck like that one you’d purchase?Johnson County’s 520 farms, counted in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, grow mostly corn, soybeans and wheat, and the straight trucks and hopper semis that serve them are trucks we buy. Send the VIN, the title and a few photos to start.
• My truck hauled machinery on a lowboy. Will you take the trailer as well?Sixty Franklin carriers in FMCSA’s carrier census list machinery and large objects as cargo, so tractor and lowboy pairs are familiar here. Describe both, with a VIN for each, and we will arrange to collect them together.
• Is there a low bridge in Franklin we should know about?The National Bridge Inventory lists the Home Avenue bridge over Youngs Creek at 9 ft 2 in, the only one of Franklin’s 35 bridges under 14 feet. Tell us if your truck is parked on the far side of it.