A fuel terminal less than a mile from Main Street
The Energy Information Administration lists a petroleum product terminal named Waterloo just 0.8 miles west of the town centre. A tractor that has loaded at that rack may be parked at a yard close by; give us the street address and say whether a lowboy can turn in there.
If you are selling a tanker unit or the tractor that pulled it, gather the registration, the title and any tank test certificates you kept in the cab. Add photos of the plate on the barrel and of the VIN on the door jamb when you first contact us from Waterloo.
Garrett Plant and Hixson pits southwest of Waterloo
Two sand and gravel operations appear in Mine Safety and Health Administration records within reach of town: the Garrett Plant, 7.6 miles to the south-west, and Hixson Sand & Gravel Inc, about 10.6 miles out in that same direction. Tri-axle dumps and end dumps hauling aggregate from those pits are the kind of truck we collect around here.
Tell us whether it is at the plant, at your shop or at home, and send shots of the box, the hoist and the cab so the pickup can be planned around where it actually is.
Seven point eight miles south-west of Waterloo, the North American Rail Network, kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, places the Garrett rail yard; a second yard, Steel Dynamics, lies 8.3 miles to the south-east on that same federal map. Flatbeds and step decks hauling steel coils or other loads between those sidings and nearby docks are trucks we collect.
Before you call about a flatbed or the tractor in front of it, write down the VIN, the deck length and whether the trailer is part of the sale. If the rig is stored at a lot near either yard rather than in Waterloo itself, that is fine; we come to the truck.
On that same FMCSA census, 18 are authorised for interstate work and 22 haul intrastate only, inside Indiana.
General freight is listed by 15 of those carriers, with machinery and large objects close behind at 14, grain, feed and hay at 11, and logs, poles, beams and lumber at 10, again according to the federal motor carrier census. A lowboy that moved equipment, a hopper bottom for grain or a log truck all fit what we buy, and each one sells more smoothly with its title and registration in the same folder.
FMCSA’s census shows the biggest fleet in town with 44 power units and 34 drivers, and the next two with 20 and 12; a seller here might be one owner-operator or a small company selling several units at once.
Inspected trucks with a 2019 median model year
About 34 percent of the trucks in those FMCSA inspections were ten or more model years old.
Whatever the year on your title, the same short list helps: the VIN, the odometer reading, the engine make, and any service records you have. Clear photos of all four sides and the dash finish the picture.
Roughly seven in ten jobs located in Waterloo were in manufacturing in 2023, 69.2 percent of 1,070, by the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts. Transportation and warehousing took 7.4 percent and construction 6 percent in that same LEHD tally, which puts box trucks, straight trucks and day cabs on the roads in and out of the plants.
Contractors who run a dump truck, a flatbed or a service body for those jobs can sell it without taking it off the site first; tell us where it is parked and we arrange the collection.
Farm trucks across the ground around Waterloo
Around Waterloo, field after field goes to soybeans, corn and cattle, and DeKalb County counts 818 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture. Grain trucks, cattle haulers and tractors that pull hopper trailers at harvest are part of what we pick up from farm lanes and machine sheds.
A farm truck is often titled to the operation rather than one person. Check whose name is on the title before you call, and if someone in the family has to sign, have them ready when the collection is set.
The Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles issues duplicate titles through its BMV branches, and the closest to Waterloo is the Auburn branch at 1388 S Grandstaff Dr, Auburn, 46706, about 5.6 miles away. If the title has gone missing, start the duplicate application there before the truck changes hands.
Bring your registration and identification to the Auburn office, and if a lender held a lien, bring the release as well. Once the new title arrives, send us a photo of the front and we can move ahead with the sale.