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

Antioch Mine, a coal mine 2.8 miles north-west of Montgomery, is the closest working site to town on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list. A tractor that has pulled coal from that pit will usually be parked at a yard close to the mine rather than at a house in town; give us the yard address and the name of whoever can open its gate, and the collection is planned around that lot, not around you.

Further out stands Oaktown Fuels Mine No. 1, 21.8 miles west, with the Oaktown Fuels Preparation Plant 24.2 miles north-west, the Shoals Mine, an industrial-mineral operation, 18.1 miles east and Mitchell Quarry, a crushed-stone pit, 24.9 miles east, all of them on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s records. End dumps and tri-axles that have moved raw coal to the preparation plant or crushed stone off the Mitchell face carry a history we want told: which site, which years, and whether the truck ran a mine-site ID. Have the title and registration with the truck and photograph the body, the tailgate and the frame rails as well as the cab.

Naval Support Activity Crane lies 17.7 miles north-east of Montgomery on the Bureau of Transportation Statistics’ list of military installations. Trucks that delivered onto the installation needed base access, so a seller who ran that work tends to keep contractor paperwork, gate passes and delivery logs; bring those out alongside the title, and tell us whether the truck is parked on your own ground or on a contractor’s lot.

The North American Rail Network, kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, lists the ASHBY rail yard 18.4 miles south-west of town. A day cab that shuttled between that yard and shippers around Montgomery can be sold from wherever it stands; we collect at the shipper’s dock, a leased yard or a driveway. Send photos from all four corners plus the fifth wheel and the tires, and note the VIN and the odometer reading in the same message.

FMCSA’s carrier census lists 88 active carriers registered to Montgomery addresses: 47 of them file general freight, 38 haul machinery and large objects, 29 carry logs, poles, beams and lumber, and 21 move metal sheets, coils and rolls. Flatbeds, step decks and lowboys follow from that mix, and a tractor sold off a flatbed outfit should come with its binders and chains counted or sold with it, so we know what stays with the truck.

Sixty-five of those carriers describe themselves as private fleets in FMCSA’s carrier census, 49 run interstate and 39 keep to Indiana. The census also shows six new carriers registered in 2025 and five in 2024. A private fleet selling one tractor from a group will have service records filed under the fleet’s name; pull the sheet for the unit you are selling before we talk, along with its registration and the title in the fleet’s name.

Drivers in the census split 133 within 100 miles of base and 167 beyond that radius, and the 31 carriers reporting mileage put the median at 25,600 miles per truck a year, according to FMCSA’s carrier census. A long-radius sleeper and a short-radius day cab sell on the same terms here; tell us which lanes the truck ran and the engine, transmission and axle set-up, and we ask the rest.

Roadside inspections of 97 trucks between late August 2024 and late August 2026, recorded in FMCSA’s roadside inspection records, give the Montgomery fleet a median model year of 2019, with 39 percent of those trucks ten or more years old. We ask the model year and the VIN of every truck first; the inspection reports you were handed at the roadside are useful to send too, since they list the equipment as an officer saw it.

The three biggest fleets registered here run 72 power units with 57 drivers, 29 units with 13 drivers and 23 units with 20 drivers, per FMCSA’s carrier census. A fleet that size renews in groups, and a seller offering several tractors at once should list each VIN on its own line with the odometer reading beside it, then tell us where the group is parked so one visit covers all of them.

County Business Patterns from the Census Bureau records 66 construction establishments in the Montgomery area, and the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts for 2023 put 54 of the town’s 471 jobs, or 11.5 percent, in construction. Dump trucks, service bodies and mixer chassis come out of that trade, and the truck is often titled to the company rather than the person calling; have the company officer who signs ready, and the title showing that company’s name.

Around Montgomery, USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 1,140 farms in Daviess County, with corn, soybeans and hogs at the top of the county’s output. Grain trucks and hopper-pulling tractors from those farms are usually parked in a machine shed off a county road; send the field or farm address rather than a mailing address, and say whether a tractor or loader is needed to clear the lane for a transporter.

The Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles issues titles in this state, and its nearest branch to Montgomery is the Washington branch at 900 W National Hwy Suite 7, Washington, 47501, 7.3 miles from town. A seller whose title has gone missing applies there for a duplicate before we meet, since the sale is written against the title the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles prints, not against a registration card.

Take the VIN, the plate number and your identification to the Washington branch, and bring any lien release with you if the truck was ever financed, so the duplicate from the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles comes back clear. Once it is in hand, the truck can stay parked where it is while the paperwork and photos go back and forth.

• With the tractor sitting at a coal yard by Antioch Mine rather than in Montgomery itself, will you pick it up at the mine yard?Antioch Mine sits 2.8 miles north-west of Montgomery on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list, and we collect at the yard there rather than asking you to move the truck. Send the lot’s address and the number of the person who opens the gate at the mine yard.
• If the title for my Montgomery truck has gone missing, which branch prints the duplicate?The Washington branch of the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles, at 900 W National Hwy Suite 7, Washington, 47501, is 7.3 miles from Montgomery and issues duplicate titles. Apply there with the VIN and your identification before the sale is written up.
• I ran a flatbed hauling lumber and machinery out of Montgomery. Is a flatbed tractor something you purchase here?Logs, poles, beams and lumber are hauled by 29 Montgomery carriers and machinery by 38, in FMCSA’s carrier census, so flatbed tractors from this town are a regular part of what we purchase. Tell us whether the chains, binders and tarps stay with the truck.
• My Montgomery tractor is a model year earlier than 2019, so does that change how the sale goes?FMCSA’s roadside inspection records put the median model year of trucks inspected around Montgomery at 2019, with 39 percent ten or more years old, so trucks from either side of that line are sold here. Send the model year and the VIN with the photos and the rest of the questions follow from those.