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

The Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles lists its Michigan City branch at 1551 South Woodland Ave, Michigan City, 46360, and its branch map puts that office 4.1 miles from Long Beach. That branch is where a Long Beach owner goes for a duplicate title when the original cannot be found: the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles is the state’s title agency and takes the application through its BMV branches. Take the VIN with you, and tell us once the duplicate is ordered so the sale can be set up around it.

Where the title is in hand, keep it with the registration, and photograph the cab, the frame and the odometer before you contact us. If the truck is parked at a yard rather than at the house, give us the address where it sits and the name of whoever can open the gate; we collect from there and you are not asked to bring it to the Michigan City branch or anywhere else.

South-west of Long Beach, 15.7 miles out by the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s measure, is a sand and gravel operation recorded as No 1. Pits like that one load tri-axle and quad-axle dump trucks and the tractors that pull belly-dump and end-dump trailers, and those are the trucks we expect to hear about from owners on this stretch of the shore. If yours has hauled aggregate, say which pit it loaded at and send a photo of the bed or the trailer along with the cab.

A second sand and gravel operation, Landmark Materials, lies 22.9 miles to the south-east on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list. A truck that has worked between those two pits may be parked at either one; tell us which, and whether a loader or a locked gate stands between the road and the truck, so the collection is planned around it.

The Mine Safety and Health Administration records the Portage Operation, a crushed-stone quarry, 17.3 miles west of Long Beach. Crushed stone moves in the same dump trucks and dump trailers as sand and gravel, so a Long Beach owner whose truck has hauled from Portage should list the quarry alongside the pits when describing the work, and keep any scale tickets or delivery records with the truck’s service file.

Burns Harbor, a rail yard 17.6 miles west of town on the North American Rail Network kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, is the other place a tractor from Long Beach is likely to have worked. Day cabs that pull trailers to and from a yard like Burns Harbor are on the list of what we buy; tell us the tractor’s VIN and odometer reading, and whether it has a sliding fifth wheel or a wet kit, and the rest of our questions follow from those.

The Bureau of Transportation Statistics lists a port, Northern Indiana District, IN, 19.6 miles south-west of Long Beach. Tractors that have hauled to and from the port are sold to us with the same two facts first, the VIN and the odometer reading, and photos of the fifth wheel, the frame and the tires follow so that what we see matches what you describe.

If your truck is parked near the port rather than in Long Beach, leave it there. Give us the lot’s address and the name of whoever manages it, and the collection is arranged with them directly; the 19.6 miles the Bureau of Transportation Statistics puts between the port and town is a distance we cover, not one you need to.

The Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts put Long Beach’s job total at 344 for 2023, and construction accounts for 17.7 percent of them by the same count. Construction crews in a lakeshore town keep service trucks, dump trucks and tractors with lowboy trailers for moving equipment, and we buy all three.

If the truck is titled to a contracting business rather than to you, have whoever signs for the company available to sign the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles title, and send the registration with the photos so the names match before we arrive. A truck kept at a job site rather than at the shop can be collected from the site; give us the site address and the hours the gate is open.

Inland from Long Beach, LaPorte County holds 677 farms according to USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, and the same census puts corn, soybeans and milk at the head of what those farms raise. Grain goes to the elevator in hopper-bottom trailers behind a tractor, and milk leaves the farm in a tank trailer; the tractors pulling either are among the trucks we buy from this corner of Indiana.

If the truck carries farm registration, send a photo of the registration card along with the title, and tell us where on the farm it is parked so the driver we send finds it. A grain truck with a box body is bought the same way as a tractor: VIN, odometer reading, title and photos, and an address for the collection.

• I cannot find the title to the truck I keep in Long Beach, and the nearest BMV branch is in Michigan City - is that the one that issues the duplicate?The Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles’ Michigan City branch at 1551 South Woodland Ave, Michigan City, 46360, is 4.1 miles from Long Beach by the bureau’s branch map, and it takes the duplicate title application. Take the VIN with you, and tell us once the duplicate is ordered.
• My dump truck is kept at the sand and gravel pit south-west of Long Beach, not at the house - can the collection happen at the pit?No 1 is 15.7 miles south-west of Long Beach on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list, and we collect from there. Give us the pit’s address and a contact who can let our driver in.
• Do you buy day cabs that worked out of Burns Harbor?Burns Harbor is a rail yard 17.6 miles west of Long Beach on the North American Rail Network kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, and day cabs that pulled from it are on our list. Start with the tractor’s VIN and odometer reading, then photograph the cab and the fifth wheel for us.
• The truck is titled to my construction company rather than to me personally - which of us signs the Indiana title over?Construction makes up 17.7 percent of Long Beach’s 344 jobs in the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts for 2023, and a company-owned truck is sold the same way as any other: whoever is authorised to sign for the business signs the title, and the registration should show the same company name.
• The truck is on a farm well inland from Long Beach. Is that too far for a collection?LaPorte County’s 677 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture are spread inland from Long Beach, and we drive to the one where the truck is. Give us the farm’s address and tell us whether the truck sits in a barn or in the open.