We buy trucks in Huntington

The node attached to this city is a crushed-limestone quarry worked by IMI Aggregates, and the federal mine regulator records twenty-one employees at it. Its coordinate lies 2.68 miles from the city centroid, close enough that the pit and the town share their roads.

Twenty-one is a plant that runs steadily rather than a pit that opens for a job. The haulage it generates is year-round work for somebody else’s trucks, and for the first 4.56 miles out of that gate it meets nothing that restricts it.

What that equipment meets on the way out is a network that leaves it alone for the first four miles and then does not.

Those first miles are genuinely clear. Within ten miles of the pit the Indiana bridge file records 178 structures; 12 are coded posted for load, 11 are coded below legal loads, and all eleven of those are county-maintained. The nearest is 4.56 miles from the gate.

The cap on the tightest of them is 13.6 metric tonnes, about 15.0 US tons, which admits roughly 2.6 tonnes of stone over the 11.0-tonne tare of an empty tandem dump. A truck that meets one of those crossings is running close to empty across it.

So the shape here is a soft start and a hard stop: six per cent of the crossings restricted, none of them near the gate, and the ones that bind taking a fraction of a load. Route planning round here is about the fourth mile, not the first.

FHWA National Bridge Inventory 2025, Indiana file, items 41, 64 and 70.

Those crossings sit under a statute that has already taken weight off the truck, because Indiana keys its allowance to the road rather than to the cargo.

Gross weight is 80,000 lb, single axles 20,000 and tandems 34,000 on the heavy-duty network the state designates. Off that network the gross falls to 73,280 lb, single axles to 18,000, and a tandem assembly is capped at 16,000 lb for each of its axles — 32,000 for the pair.

So a loaded truck on a county road gives up 6,720 lb of gross before it meets a posting at all, and which roads carry the designation was not established here. Local authorities may set lesser limits again, and seasonal restrictions are administered county by county rather than as one state season.

One more limit follows the load rather than the road: 800 lb per inch of tire width, loaded or empty, which a dense load reaches on a short deck length rather than spread down a trailer.

Ind. Code § 9-20-4-1; local limits under § 9-20-1-4 and § 9-20-7-2. Information, not legal advice.

Beyond the weight rules, the paperwork is one sentence: we need a title unless the truck is old enough that it never had one.

Everything after that sentence is a fix rather than a category. A lost title has a counter replacement; where none exists there is a bonded route. Neither one stops a sale.

Indiana brands a vehicle salvage where repair to a roadworthy state would cost more than 70 per cent of its fair market value immediately before the damage, and the statute names semitrailers explicitly, so a trailer can carry a brand independently of the tractor. Rebuilding requires a state police officer to verify ownership of the major component parts and the source of those parts — a paperwork audit rather than a condition inspection, and a rebuild done without receipts cannot pass it.

Ind. Code § 9-22-3-3 and § 9-22-3. Information, not legal advice.

None of that narrows what we will look at. Dump trucks and aggregate haulers, farm trucks and grain hauls, day cabs and road tractors, flatbeds, rollbacks, tankers, service bodies, box trucks and straight trucks, and the work trucks and pickups that go with a crew.

Box trucks and straight trucks are not a local speciality — they are everywhere. They are on the list because we buy them here too.

Whatever you drive, the offer doesn’t change. The quarry gate 2.68 miles out, the clear road for the 4.56 miles beyond it and the farm ground around both are where most of it turns up.

• Does it have to run?No. It does have to be complete — if the engine, transmission, doors, rear ends, drive shafts, wheels or anything under the hood have been removed, we can’t buy it. Rust is not a disqualifier.
• The engine is out of it. Is that different?Yes, and that is the line. A tired engine is fine; an engine that has been pulled out and sold means we can’t buy the truck.
• What about the title?We need one unless the truck is old enough that it never had one. Lost titles have a counter replacement; where none exists there’s a bonded route.
• It has run loaded most of its life. Does that count against it?No. Four and a half clear miles out of a gate means a truck round here gets to work properly, and a truck that has worked is a truck that has been maintained. What we check is that it is all there.
• Will you come out to the pit?Often we don’t need to — plenty of these we buy remotely and arrange the tow, so nobody has to be standing at a gate 2.68 miles from the middle of town. Anywhere within the 4.56 miles beyond it, too. We come to you and drive it away, we come to you and tow it, we buy it remotely and arrange the tow, or you drive it to us.

Those answers matter here because the reasons are ordinary. Retiring. A medical that went the wrong way. A hauling contract ending. A truck standing beside a barn since somebody stopped driving it, costing insurance every month it does not turn a wheel.

Within the 2.68 miles between the town and the quarry gate, and the 4.56 miles of clear road past it, there is usually one waiting.

Most of those aren’t happy reasons, and we don’t treat them like they are. Somebody wants a straight answer and the truck gone by the end of the week. That’s what we’re here for.