Sixteen Otterbein-area carriers, most of them hauling for farms
Sixteen active carriers are registered around Otterbein on FMCSA’s carrier census, and nine of them list grain, feed and hay as cargo while seven list farm supplies. A hopper-bottom tractor, a straight truck with a grain box or a feed body all fit what we buy here.
Around town the farmland is planted to corn and soybeans, with milk the third commodity listed for Benton County’s 390 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture. A truck that spends harvest at an elevator and winter in a machine shed is often easiest to collect between seasons. Give us the farm address and say which building it is parked in.
Five carriers near Otterbein haul general freight and four carry logs, poles, beams or lumber, according to the federal carrier census. If your truck pulled a flatbed or a log trailer rather than grain, say so, and send a photo that shows the deck or bunks along with the cab.
Of the operations near Otterbein on FMCSA’s census, twelve run intrastate and four cross state lines, and fourteen are private fleets hauling their own goods. Many sellers here are farmers or builders rather than for-hire carriers. That changes nothing about the sale: a private-fleet truck needs the same title and registration as any other.
The federal census also counts 20 drivers working inside a hundred-mile radius of their base and 12 beyond it. Five carriers reported annual mileage, with a median of 2,652 miles per truck on FMCSA’s records. Have the current odometer reading ready, along with the VIN, before you call.
Three of the fleets on FMCSA’s census run seven, four and four power units. If you are clearing more than one truck out of a yard like that, list every unit with its VIN in one message and we can plan a single collection for the lot.
Rail yards and gravel pits between Otterbein and Lafayette
The North American Rail Network, kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, places the Lafayette rail yard 11.3 miles east of Otterbein and a second yard, listed as East, at 12.2 miles. A tractor that shuttled grain or freight to those yards can be collected wherever it now sits; give us the street address or the yard gate.
US Aggregates’ Swisher Plant, a sand and gravel operation, lies 12.5 miles east of town on Mine Safety and Health Administration records, and Purdy Materials is 15 miles to the south-east. Dump trucks and tri-axles that loaded at either pit belong on the list of trucks we take. Photos of the bed, the hoist and the tailgate help as much as photos of the cab.
Two crushed-stone quarries fall within a short drive: the Delphi Plant 21.8 miles east and Newton County Quarry 24.9 miles north-west, both on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list. If your truck is parked at a quarry rather than at home, tell us who manages the site so the pickup can be cleared with them.
Box trucks and straight trucks that served a plant here are trucks we buy. Bring along any service log the plant kept for the unit; it answers most of our questions before we ask them.
A builder’s dump truck, stake bed or crane truck can be sold the same way as a farm tractor: send the VIN, a few photos and the address where it is parked.
Titles here come from the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles through its BMV branches, and the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles lists its Lafayette branch at 2200 Elmwood Ave Ste A6, Lafayette, 47904, 12.1 miles from Otterbein. If the title is missing, a duplicate title application through that office is the step to start before we collect.
Have the registration and the title in the name of whoever is selling. Where a farm partnership or a company holds the title, tell us whose name is on it so the person who signs is the person the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles lists.