Pike County
Where Spurgeon sits
Spurgeon is in Pike County, and the census counts 163 people here, at 931 per square mile, with a median age of 42.4 years.
What we know about Spurgeon is what the census records and what Indiana law requires; the yards, pits and depots we have researched elsewhere have no entry here. So the question we can actually answer is how a truck gets out, not who else might want it.
Indiana weight law
That road has a number on it
That route out is where the state stops being an abstraction. Indiana sets the ceiling before any local sign lowers it.
In Indiana the overall cap weight limit is 80,000 lb (IC 9-20-4-1).
In Indiana the single axle weight limit is 20,000 lb (IC 9-20-4-1).
In Indiana the tandem weight limit is 34,000 lb (IC 9-20-4-1).
So what leaves Spurgeon
That rule meets 163 people in Spurgeon, Pike County, at a household median around $54,500 and a density of 931 per square mile. A truck sitting in a driveway here is a working asset that has stopped working, whatever the size of the place it stopped in.
What we take out of a place like this is sleeper tractors and day cabs, dump trucks and roll-offs, box trucks and flatbeds, pickups and duallys, and the service and utility bodies that outlive the business that bought them.
Straight answers
The questions we get asked in Spurgeon
Do you actually come to Pike County? Yes. We come to you and drive it away, we come to you and tow it, we buy it remotely and arrange the tow, or you drive it to us.
Do you come out to a place this size? 163 people at 931 per square mile is a place we reach the same way we reach anywhere else. The truck decides whether we buy it, not the population.
How do you pay? We pay either cash or electronically.