Gravel trucks and the New Trenton Pit
According to the Mine Safety and Health Administration, the New Trenton Pit is a sand and gravel operation 9.8 miles north of Hidden Valley. A tandem or tri-axle dump that has spent its seasons hauling out of that pit is the kind of truck we buy, and it can stay parked wherever you keep it between loads.
Before you call, find the bed’s make and the box length, then photograph the hoist, the tailgate and the cab from each side. Having those pictures ready lets us talk about your particular dump body rather than a generic one.
Rising Sun Plant and the southern run
Seventeen point one miles south, the Rising Sun Plant appears in Mine Safety and Health Administration records as another sand and gravel operation. Owners who split their hauling between that plant and the New Trenton Pit often keep a truck at a yard partway between the two; tell us which side of Hidden Valley it sits on.
List any trailer or pup that goes with the truck, and say whether you would sell them together or apart. A gravel tractor and its end-dump can be collected on one trip if both are at the same address.
Crushed stone from Versailles Quarry
The Versailles Quarry, which the Mine Safety and Health Administration lists as a crushed-stone quarry, lies 24.8 miles west. Stone haulers running that route back to Dearborn County tend to be heavy-spec straight trucks and tractors, and we take both.
Write down the VIN from the door jamb and the engine model from the valve cover tag. With those two details plus the axle setup, we can identify the exact truck sitting at your property west of Hidden Valley.
Grain trucks and cattle haulers
Corn, soybeans and cattle lead the list for Dearborn County’s 520 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture. A grain truck that moves corn and soybeans at harvest, or a tractor that pulls a livestock trailer to sale barns, fits what we purchase from county owners.
Farm trucks often sit in a machine shed or behind the barn for months, which is fine with us. Give us the farm address and note whether a gate, a lane or soft ground stands between the road and the truck, so pickup is planned for that spot.
If the title is in a farm partnership or a relative’s name, sort out who signs before we schedule anything. The person named on the Indiana title is the person who has to sign it over.
Owner-operators parked around Hidden Valley
Only 203 jobs were based inside Hidden Valley in 2023, going by the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts (LODES). With that few workplaces inside the community, many owner-operators here park their rigs in a driveway or side lot, and that is where we would come to get them.
Have the registration and any service receipts in one folder near the truck. Those papers, together with a signed title, are everything the handover at your home in Hidden Valley requires.
Titles, photos and getting started
Find the Indiana title first and check the name on it against your driver’s license. If it has been lost, request a replacement from the state’s title office before we set a pickup, since the title is what transfers the truck.
Then send photos taken in daylight: the cab interior, the dash with the key on, each side, and the plate showing the VIN. With those in hand we can answer your questions about a truck kept around Dearborn County’s pits, quarries and farms.
The questions we get asked in Hidden Valley
- Will you take a gravel dump that loads at New Trenton?The Mine Safety and Health Administration places the New Trenton Pit 9.8 miles north of Hidden Valley, and dump trucks that haul sand and gravel from it are among the trucks we purchase.
- My grain truck only goes out at harvest time; will you still look at it?Dearborn County has 520 farms on USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, with corn and soybeans leading, and seasonal grain trucks from those farms are trucks we buy wherever they are parked.
- Will you come out to a farm or yard outside town?Versailles Quarry sits 24.8 miles west by the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s listing, and owners hauling there keep trucks well outside Hidden Valley; we collect from the address you give us.