O.Z. Bridges Memorial Quarry, just under a mile out
Under a mile north-east of Putnamville, the O.Z. Bridges Memorial Quarry is listed as a crushed-stone operation by the Mine Safety and Health Administration. A tri-axle or quad-axle dump that has spent its seasons loading there may still sit near the pit gate, and we can collect it right where it is parked. Give us the gate details and a name to call on the day.
Stone haulers that cycle between a pit and nearby jobs tend to collect scale tickets, DOT inspection reports and service invoices in the cab. Bundle whatever survives with the title before you contact us. Add photos of the body, the hoist, the tires and the dash, so the questions that follow are about this particular truck.
Two more mine sites
Cloverdale stone and the Lone Star cement plant
Federal mine safety records from the Mine Safety and Health Administration place ILC Resources Cloverdale Plant, another crushed-stone quarry, 1.8 miles south-east of town. A second pit that close means a Putnamville owner may run a truck between both sites in a week. Tell us which one yours last worked out of, and whether it is kept at a yard, a farm lot or your driveway.
Lone Star Industries runs a cement plant 2.8 miles north, a site the Mine Safety and Health Administration also tracks. Mixers, bulk pneumatic tankers and the tractors that pull them fit what we purchase. For a mixer, send the VIN of the chassis and the serial plate on the drum, along with a shot of the chute and controls.
Hoppers and hog haulers off the farm lanes
Putnamville’s surrounding farmland shows up in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, which counts 728 farms across Putnam County and ranks corn, soybeans and hogs at the top. Grain trucks with hoppers or dump beds, livestock haulers and the day cabs pulling them belong on the list of trucks we take. A farm truck that only moves at harvest is welcome; it can stay in the machine shed until we arrive.
Farm trucks often carry farm plates instead of standard registration, and some titles were never moved out of a parent’s or a partnership’s name. If the name on the title is not yours, tell us whose it is when you first reach out, and we will walk you through what the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles asks for to transfer it.
Mill Pond Lane
Lost certificate? Mill Pond Lane has the counter
Lost certificates are handled by the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles, whose Greencastle branch at 1010 Mill Pond Lane, Greencastle, 46135, is 5.1 miles from Putnamville. The agency offers a duplicate title application, and the branch can take it in person if you would rather not wait on mail.
Bring the VIN, your driver’s license and any lien release before you visit the Greencastle counter. Once the duplicate is in your hands, send us a photo of the front and back so we can confirm the names and the VIN match the truck.
A small town with a working base
For 2023, the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts (LODES) record 441 jobs located in Putnamville, a town of about 1,959 people. With quarries, a cement plant and farms on the edge of town, the trucks we see from here are as often owned by one person as by a small outfit.
If you run a handful of trucks and want to sell more than one, list each with its VIN and where it sits now. We will plan the collections together so you are not arranging separate visits for each unit.
West toward the airfield
Hulman Fld and the stretch west of town
Hulman Fld, which the Bureau of Transportation Statistics lists as a military installation, lies 23.5 miles west of Putnamville. Trucks based along that stretch, or stored at a relative’s place out that way, can be picked up there rather than driven back east.
Wherever the truck is, give us the street address, whether the keys are with it and whether a trailer is coupled. Those three answers let us send the right equipment the first time.
The questions we get asked in Putnamville
- Can you collect a dump truck that sits beside the quarry at the edge of Putnamville?A crushed-stone quarry sits 0.9 miles north-east of Putnamville in Mine Safety and Health Administration records, and a truck parked beside it can be picked up there. Tell us who controls access to the lot so the visit is cleared ahead of time.
- The title for my quarry truck went missing - where should a Putnamville owner apply for another?Greencastle’s branch of the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles, at 1010 Mill Pond Lane, is 5.1 miles away and accepts the duplicate title application. Once the Greencastle branch issues the new certificate, photograph both sides and send them over with the VIN.
- Will you buy a hog trailer tractor or grain truck off a farm outside Putnamville?Putnam County’s 728 farms, counted in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, grow mostly corn and soybeans and raise hogs, and the grain and livestock trucks that serve them are ones we buy. Share the VIN, a few photos and the farm lane or shed where it stands between harvests.