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

FMCSA’s carrier census shows 64 active carriers in Tell City, and 48 of them are private fleets moving their own goods rather than hauling for hire. A private fleet truck usually spends its nights at the shop or plant it serves, so give us that address and the name of whoever holds the keys there.

Of those 64 carriers, 43 are listed in the same FMCSA census as intrastate only, with 21 authorised across state lines. An Indiana-only truck should still have its registration and the title in the name on that registration; check that the two match before you call, since a mismatch is the first thing we sort out.

Only one new carrier registered in 2024 and one in 2025, per FMCSA’s census, so most outfits in town have been operating for years. If your company has changed names or owners in that time, have the paperwork that shows the truck passed along with it.

The federal carrier census lists 27 Tell City carriers hauling general freight, 20 moving machinery and large objects, 16 carrying grain, feed and hay, and 14 hauling logs, poles, beams and lumber. A log truck or lowboy tractor sells with its trailer or without it; tell us which, and send a photo of each piece you want included.

Perry County had 417 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, with corn, soybeans and hogs leading the list. A grain truck that sits in a farm shed most of the year can be collected right from that shed, so give us the road name and a gate code if there is one.

Many farm trucks carry a farm plate rather than a commercial one. Whichever plate is on yours, the title is what transfers ownership, so find it before anything else and tell us whose name is printed on it.

According to the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts for 2023, Tell City had 3,542 jobs, and 453 of them, or 12.8 percent, were in manufacturing. A tractor or straight truck that shuttles between a plant dock and the highway can be picked up at that dock if the plant allows it; ask the yard manager first and pass us a contact name.

Construction made up 124 local jobs in the same LEHD figures, 3.5 percent of the total, and County Business Patterns counts 27 construction establishments. Dump trucks and equipment haulers from those firms are often parked at a contractor yard, so send the yard address along with the VIN.

Photos taken where it stands, showing the cab, the frame and every tire, let us plan the pickup without a separate visit.

Cape Sandy #1, a crushed-stone quarry on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list, lies about 24.4 miles north-east of Tell City. Dump trucks and tri-axles that run stone out of a quarry like that may be parked at the pit itself; we come to it, so tell us the gate hours.

If your quarry truck carries a scale ticket book, a service log or a mine-site inspection sheet, keep it in the cab when we arrive. Those papers show what the truck did on the haul between Cape Sandy and town far better than a description over the phone.

Drivers working for Tell City carriers are mostly local: FMCSA’s census puts 204 within a 100-mile radius and 44 beyond it. A truck that comes home every night is easy to find, so pick a time when it is parked and tell us where.

A Tell City truck logs a median of 10,000 miles a year, going by the 19 local carriers whose mileage FMCSA holds. Have the odometer reading ready in a photo with the VIN plate; those two images answer most of what we will ask.

At the top of Tell City’s FMCSA census sit fleets of 49, 44 and 18 power units. Selling several units at once from one yard is straightforward; send a list of VINs and we will work through them together.

FMCSA roadside inspection records for 34 Tell City trucks, checked between 30 October 2024 and 28 July 2026, give a median model year of 2019. That figure tells us roughly which generation of engine and emissions equipment to expect, so tell us the engine make along with the year.

Of the 34 Tell City trucks in those inspection records, 17.65 percent carried a model year ten or more years back. Whatever the year on yours, the steps are the same: title, registration, VIN photo, odometer photo, and the address where it sits.

• My log truck sits on a timber landing in Perry County, miles from Tell City. Does it have to be hauled to town first?With 14 log and lumber carriers in Tell City on FMCSA’s census, plenty of trucks here sit on a landing rather than in town, and we collect from where yours is. Send directions to the landing and say whether the road takes a pickup truck in wet weather.
• The grain truck on my Perry County farm only comes out for the corn and soybean harvest. Is a harvest-only truck something you take?Perry County’s 417 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture keep plenty of seasonal grain trucks around, and a harvest-only truck is one we buy. Have the title in hand and photos taken in the shed where it is stored.
• We haul our own goods around Tell City with a private fleet of several units. Could a handful go in one sale?Forty-eight of Tell City’s 64 carriers on FMCSA’s census are private fleets, and selling several of a fleet’s units together is routine for us. Send the VINs, titles and the yard address in one message.