We buy trucks in Stinesville

Two crushed-stone rows are attached to Stinesville and they are nothing like as close together as that suggests. One, with 6 employees, sits 0.81 miles from the middle of the village. The other, with 7, sits 17.17 miles away.

Seventeen miles is not a neighbour. It is a different working area attached to this village because Stinesville is the nearest place on the list that holds a page — a filing convenience rather than a fact about where the stone is.

Saying so matters because a page that counted two quarries at a village of this size would be describing somewhere that does not exist. There is one operation on the doorstep here, and one a good drive off.

Those seventeen miles show up directly in the road figures, which is the clearest proof that the two rows describe different ground. The nearer quarry sits on 165 structures within ten miles with twelve coded below legal loads, all county-maintained, the nearest 4.35 miles out, and a commercial floor of 17.0 metric tonnes — about 6.0 tonnes of stone over an empty tandem’s tare.

The far row sits on 197 structures with fourteen restrictions, nearest 4.04 miles, and a floor of 17.9 tonnes admitting about 6.9 tonnes. Similar in character, different in detail, and computed from circles that barely overlap.

Either way the answer for a driver is much the same: around seven or eight per cent of crossings restricted, none of them right at a gate, and a part load rather than a full one across the tightest. Monroe County maintains 160 bridges and posts eight.

FHWA National Bridge Inventory 2025, Indiana file, items 41, 64 and 70.

Both circles sit under one statute, and it is keyed to the road rather than to the cargo.

Indiana sets gross weight at 80,000 lb, single axles at 20,000 and tandems at 34,000, on the heavy-duty network the state highway agency designates. Off that network gross falls to 73,280 lb and tandems fall from 34,000 to 16,000, less than half. Which roads are designated was not established here, so nothing on this page says which side of the line a particular route falls.

Local authorities may impose lesser limits again, and seasonal restrictions are administered county by county rather than as one state season. Whether the southern limestone counties impose frost restrictions at all was not established and is not asserted either way.

Read as wear, a lower legal load means more trips for the same tonnage — more loading cycles, more brake applications, more hours — behind an odometer reading that looks modest for the work done.

Ind. Code § 9-20-4-1; local limits under § 9-20-1-4 and § 9-20-7-2. Information, not legal advice.

Beyond the weight rules, the paperwork is that one sentence.

Everything after it is a fix rather than a category. A lost title has a counter replacement; where none exists there is a bonded route. Neither stops a sale.

Indiana brands a vehicle salvage where repair to a roadworthy state would cost more than 70 per cent of its fair market value immediately before the damage, and the statute names semitrailers explicitly, so a trailer can carry a brand independently of the tractor. Rebuilding requires a state police officer to verify ownership of the major component parts used and the source of those parts — a paperwork audit rather than a condition inspection, which a rebuild done without receipts cannot pass.

Ind. Code § 9-22-3-3 and § 9-22-3. Information, not legal advice.

None of that narrows what we will look at. Dump trucks and aggregate haulers, flatbeds and lowboys, farm trucks and grain hauls, day cabs and road tractors, rollbacks, tankers, service bodies, box trucks and straight trucks, and the work trucks and pickups that go with a crew.

Box trucks and straight trucks are not a Monroe County thing in particular — they are everywhere. They are on the list because we buy them here too.

Whatever you drive, the offer doesn’t change. We buy all of them. The quarry 0.81 miles from the village, the working area 17.17 miles off that shares its filing, and the roads between them are where most of it turns up.

• Does it have to run?No. It does have to be complete — if the engine, transmission, doors, rear ends, drive shafts, wheels or anything under the hood have been removed, we can’t buy it. Rust is not a disqualifier.
• The engine is out of it. Is that different?Yes, and that is the line. A tired engine is fine; an engine that has been pulled out and sold means we can’t buy the truck.
• What about the title?We need one unless the truck is old enough that it never had one. Lost titles have a counter replacement; where none exists there’s a bonded route.
• I am nearer the far pit than the village.Then you are one of the people this filing muddles — 17.17 miles of it — and it changes nothing for us. All of Monroe County and the ground around it is the same call.
• Will you come out to a village this size?Often we don’t need to — plenty of these we buy remotely and arrange the tow. 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.

Those answers matter here because the reasons are ordinary and the nearest buyer is a long way off. Retiring. A medical that went the wrong way. A quarry contract that ended. A truck standing beside a barn since somebody stopped driving it, costing insurance every month it does not turn a wheel.

Around Monroe County, between the village quarry and the ground 17.17 miles off, there is usually one waiting.

Most of those aren’t happy reasons, and we don’t treat them like they are. Somebody wants a straight answer and the truck gone by the end of the week. That’s what we’re here for.