Cass County
A cement works, its clay mine, and a stone quarry
Three operations are attached to Logansport and two of them are the same site. The cement plant reports 96 employees to the federal mine regulator under Heidelberg Materials, and a second row on effectively the same coordinate is its clay mine — two of the four Indiana cement works are recorded that way, plant and clay pit as separate rows.
The third is a crushed-stone quarry with 27 employees, 1.41 miles from the middle of town. Between them that is two different trucking businesses on one set of roads: pneumatic bulk tankers hauling cement powder, and open-topped stone.
The plant sits 33.3 miles from Lafayette, which is the nearest place of any size, so the outbound cement leg is a regional one rather than a local delivery round.
The bridges
Almost nothing on these roads is posted
Those hauls run over a road network that barely constrains them. Within ten miles of the quarry the federal bridge inventory records 151 structures and just two coded below legal loads, both county-maintained, the nearest 1.59 miles out.
Two restrictions in a hundred and fifty-one is about as clear as this state gets. Where one does bite the cap is 13.6 metric tonnes, which over the 11.0-tonne tare of an empty tandem dump admits roughly 2.6 tonnes of stone — hard, but you will rarely meet it.
So the thing that actually limits a truck here is not a bridge. It is the statute, and Indiana’s is built in a way that catches people out.
FHWA National Bridge Inventory 2025, Indiana file, items 41, 64 and 70.
Indiana weight law
The limit turns on the road, not the load
That statute keys the allowance to which road you are on rather than to what you are carrying.
Indiana sets gross weight at 80,000 lb, single axles at 20,000 and tandems at 34,000, on the heavy-duty network the state highway agency designates. Off it, gross falls to 73,280 lb and tandems fall to 16,000. Which roads are designated was not established here, so a truck working out of these gates may be running 6,720 lb below the federal gross with nothing at the roadside to say so.
Cement is worth a note of its own on that point. Kentucky, which grants its weight tolerance by commodity, lists concrete on its schedule and does not list cement — two products of the same plant treated differently the moment a load crosses that line. Indiana does not run a commodity list at all, so here the question stays a question about the road.
Dense powder and stone both meet one further limit: 800 lb per inch of tire width, loaded or empty, reached on a short deck rather than spread down a trailer.
Ind. Code § 9-20-4-1; KRS 189.222(1)(c) for the Kentucky commodity list. Information, not legal advice.
Indiana paperwork
We need a title — unless it never had one
Beyond the weight rules, the paperwork is that one sentence.
Everything after it is a fix rather than a category. A lost title has a counter replacement; where none exists there is a bonded route. Neither 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 used and the source of those parts — a paperwork audit rather than a condition inspection, which a rebuild done without receipts cannot pass.
Ind. Code § 9-22-3-3 and § 9-22-3. Information, not legal advice.
What we buy here
None of that narrows what we will look at. Pneumatic bulk tankers and mixers, dump trucks and aggregate haulers, day cabs and road tractors, flatbeds, rollbacks, 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 Cass County thing in particular — they are everywhere. They are on the list because we buy them here too.
Whatever you drive, the offer doesn’t change. We buy all of them. The Heidelberg Materials kiln, the quarry and the road over to Lafayette are where most of it turns up.
We buy complete trucks. If the engine, transmission, doors, rear ends, drive shafts, wheels or anything under the hood have been removed, we can’t buy it. Small things — a missing bumper — are fine.
Straight answers
The questions we get asked in Logansport
- 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 is a bulk tanker. Is the tank part of it?Tell us the specification and the last test date and we will take it from there. On a pressure or bulk unit the certification history matters as much as the driveline does.
- Do you come out to Cass County?Yes, all of it and the towns around it, and the 33.3 miles over to Lafayette as well. 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.
Why people call
Those questions come up because the reasons for selling are mostly personal. Retiring. A medical that went the wrong way. A haul that ended with a contract. A truck sitting behind a shop since somebody stopped driving it, costing insurance every month it does not turn a wheel.
Across Cass County, and on the 33.3 miles over to Lafayette, the same trucks come up for sale for the same reasons.
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.