Quarry trucks off Mercer Stone and Caldwell Stone
Just 2.2 miles east of the courthouse town, Mercer Stone Company quarries crushed stone, per the Mine Safety and Health Administration. A dump truck or tri-axle that runs aggregate out of that pit can stay parked at the yard where it works; give us the gate contact and we arrange collection there.
Caldwell Stone, another crushed-stone operation on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list, lies 11.6 miles south-east of the city. If your hauler splits its loads between both quarries, have the title in hand and a few photos of the bed, the cab and the VIN plate, and that covers what we ask first.
Who holds authority around Harrodsburg
Harrodsburg has 275 active carriers in FMCSA’s carrier census, and 181 of those are private fleets hauling their own goods. A contractor or farm that keeps a truck for its own work sells to us the same way a for-hire outfit does: title, registration and the keys.
Of those 275 operators, the federal carrier census shows 227 running intrastate only and 48 crossing state lines. If yours stayed inside Kentucky, the Kentucky registration card is the paper to have next to the title when we come for the truck.
Newcomers keep appearing too, with FMCSA’s census recording 11 new carriers here in 2024 and 9 in 2025. A one-truck operator who started in either year and is now stepping back can sell the tractor with nothing more than a clean title and the cab card.
Lowboy freight, logs and feed out of Harrodsburg
General freight leads the cargo list at 91 carriers in the federal carrier census, with 79 hauling machinery and large objects. Lowboys, step-decks and the tractors that pull them fit that second group; send the trailer’s own title along with the truck’s if both are going.
Forty-three Harrodsburg carriers list logs, poles, beams and lumber with FMCSA, and 48 list farm supplies. A log truck or a grain hauler parked on a farm lane is collected where it sits, so tell us whether a loaded trailer or a gate is in the way.
Cattle and row crops
Cattle, soybeans and corn country
Cattle rank first among Mercer County’s 978 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, ahead of soybeans and then corn. Livestock haulers, grain trucks and farm tractor-trailers from those operations are all trucks we purchase.
On a working farm the truck often sits behind a barn or out by a pasture. Give us the farm address, a phone number for whoever can open the gate, and a photo of the odometer, and the visit gets set around your chores rather than ours.
Factory jobs and the Danville yard
Of 5,604 jobs in Harrodsburg in 2023, the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts place 2,266 in manufacturing, a 40.4 percent share, against 117 in transportation and warehousing. A box truck or day cab that shuttles parts for a local plant can be picked up at that plant’s lot once someone there knows we are coming.
A rail yard listed as DANVILLE on the North American Rail Network sits 9.9 miles south-east of town. A tractor that worked the Danville yard and is parked beside it now gets collected right there, with no trip back to Harrodsburg.
Construction holds 102 local jobs on the LEHD figures, and County Business Patterns from the Census Bureau lists 42 construction establishments in the county. A builder retiring a flatbed or a dump truck should have the title and any service log ready to hand over.
What the Harrodsburg roadside stops show
Harrodsburg-based trucks stopped 101 times for FMCSA roadside inspection records between September 2024 and August 2026 had a 2019 median model year, and 33.7 percent were ten or more years old. Read the model year and VIN straight off your Kentucky title when you contact us; for a 2019 tractor or a 2009 one, those two lines open the conversation.
A median 10,578 miles per truck comes from the 49 local carriers reporting annual mileage in FMCSA’s carrier census. FMCSA’s carrier census also counts 404 drivers working within 100 miles and 350 beyond that range; wherever your truck is parked now, give us that address and we go to it.
Fleets here run from a handful of trucks up to 44 power units in FMCSA’s records, with one operation listing 43 trucks and 92 drivers. If you are selling several units at once, a list of VINs and where each is parked lets us plan one trip instead of many.
The questions we get asked in Harrodsburg
- Can you collect a tri-axle from the Mercer Stone yard?Mercer Stone Company sits 2.2 miles east of town on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list, and we collect from that yard. Send the address, the gate contact and the title, and leave the truck where it is.
- Which papers go with a grain truck sold off a Mercer County farm?Mercer County’s 978 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture make farm trucks a regular pickup for us around Harrodsburg. Have the title, the registration and a few photos, and tell us which field road reaches the truck.
- Is a Kentucky-only intrastate truck handled any differently?Harrodsburg has 227 intrastate carriers in FMCSA’s carrier census, so a Kentucky-only truck is the usual case here. Bring the Kentucky title and registration and the sale works the same as any other.