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

Three operations sit almost exactly 19 miles out, according to the Mine Safety and Health Administration: Calcar Quarry to the west, imi Brownstown Sand & Gravel to the north and Davis Crushed Stone to the south. If your dump truck or end-dump tractor loads at one of those pits, tell us which one and whether it is parked there or back at your place in Salem, and we will arrange the pickup at that spot.

Tanyard Quarry, a dimension-stone operation listed by MSHA about 21.9 miles north-west, cuts building stone rather than gravel. If your flatbed or tractor hauls block from there, photograph the deck, the tie-down points and the cab, and have the title and the registration card where you can read the VIN off them.

Mitchell Plant, a cement works MSHA places 21.6 miles west of town, stands beside the MITCHELL rail yard that the North American Rail Network records 21.4 miles out. If your tractor or bulk trailer works between those two sites, list the trailer separately from the tractor, each with its own VIN and title.

A truck that sits at a yard in Mitchell between loads does not need driving back to Washington County for us to see it. Give us the yard address and the name of whoever holds the gate key, and keep any maintenance or inspection records in the cab so they travel with the truck.

FMCSA’s carrier census shows 110 active carriers based in Salem, and 79 of them run intrastate only, against 31 crossing state lines. The same FMCSA census counts 81 private fleets among them, outfits hauling their own goods; if the truck belongs to one, the person who signs the title is the one we need to hear from.

Driver counts filed with that same census put 192 drivers within a 100-mile radius and 101 working beyond it. FMCSA’s census also shows a median of 12,501 miles a year per truck across the 24 Salem carriers reporting mileage; read your own odometer before you call and give us that figure.

Fleets here stay small: the three biggest registered with FMCSA run 17, 14 and 14 power units. An owner selling two or three units at once can send one list of VINs and one set of photos, and we will work through the trucks together.

By cargo type in the carrier census, 30 Salem carriers haul general freight, 28 haul logs, poles, beams and lumber, 28 move machinery and large objects, and 21 carry grain, feed and hay. Log trucks with loaders, lowboy tractors and grain hoppers all fall inside what we purchase, along with the box trucks and vans on general routes.

If your log truck carries a knuckleboom or your lowboy has a detachable gooseneck, photograph the attachment working and note its make and serial plate. Send those with the tractor’s VIN and the trailer’s plate number.

Washington County held 783 farms when USDA took its 2022 Census of Agriculture, and corn led its list, ahead of soybeans and then cattle. A grain truck, livestock hauler or hay flatbed parked on your farm stays there; we come up the lane to collect it rather than ask you to meet us in town.

The Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts for 2023 put 3,557 jobs in Salem, 673 of them, or 18.9 percent, in manufacturing, and County Business Patterns lists 33 construction establishments. A plant truck or a contractor’s dump body is titled to a business more often than to a person, so have the officer who signs for the company available.

Among 62 trucks inspected at the roadside between September 2024 and August 2026, FMCSA records put the median model year at 2017, and 46.8 percent were ten or more years old. Model year of either kind is something we buy, so send it with the VIN and we can begin.

Carrier registrations in town added 5 new entrants in 2024 and 3 in 2025 on FMCSA’s census. If you registered recently and are now selling, your USDOT number and the title in the company name are the two items to have together.

• Between loads my end-dump stays parked at Calcar Quarry west of Salem. Is that a place you pick up from?Calcar, Brownstown and Davis Crushed Stone all sit about 19 miles from town on MSHA’s listings, and we collect at the pit. Give us the site name and a contact who can let a driver through the gate.
• Is there a port nearby if I haul to the river?The Bureau of Transportation Statistics lists the Southern Indiana District port about 23.4 miles south-west of Salem. A tractor parked at a terminal there can be picked up in place; tell us which terminal and whose lot it is on.
• Is a corn or cattle truck that stays on a Washington County farm something you purchase?Washington County’s 783 farms, counted in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, are home to grain and livestock trucks of every kind, and we buy those trucks. Send the title, the registration and photos of the bed or body.