A day cab that drags containers or flatbeds off that yard usually sleeps within a few minutes of it, so tell us the street or lot where it is parked and we collect it from there.
The Ludlow yard lies 6.1 miles north-west of town on the North American Rail Network. If your tractor split its shifts between Ludlow and DeCoursey, send the VIN and a clear photo of the door sticker and dash, and say which yard it last left from.
Two petroleum product terminals listed by the Energy Information Administration sit under the Covington name, one 2.6 miles west of Highland Heights and the other 6 miles north-west. Straight trucks and tank tractors that load at those racks are among what we buy, and a seller here should have the title and current registration in hand before we arrive.
Tankers carry their own paper trail, so gather the tank inspection certificates and the last service invoices along with the cab photos. A driver who fuelled out of the nearer Covington rack can simply leave the unit at the yard gate and give us the name of whoever can let us in.
Quarries and gravel pits toward the south-east and west
Mine Safety and Health Administration listings put the Underground Black River Operation 16.7 miles south-east of town and Butler Quarry at 17.7 miles in that same direction, both producing crushed stone. For tri-axle dumps and end-dump tractors hauling from those faces, photograph the bed raised and the tailgate shown, alongside the plate and VIN.
To the west, Belleview Sand & Gravel Inc runs 20.2 miles out and an operation logged as Plant #1 sits at 22.6 miles, both on the Mine Safety and Health Administration register. A dump truck parked at a pit lot or behind a house in Highland Heights is collected where it sits. Tell us who holds the keys.
According to the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts for 2023, 4,376 jobs are based in Highland Heights, with manufacturing accounting for 519 of them, or 11.9 percent. Box trucks and tractors that move parts and finished goods for those plants are common sellers, and a stack of service records travels well with them.
Construction held 68 of the town’s jobs in that 2023 LEHD release, a 1.6 percent share. Contractors who run a single dump or a stake-bed out of a home driveway can sell it without moving it; have the title signed off in the registered owner’s name and the registration card ready.
Herds, cornfields and horse barns near Highland Heights
In USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture the county counts 493 farms, with cattle, corn and equine operations at the top. Livestock haulers, grain trucks and tractors that pull horse trailers off those farms are all trucks we take, and a farm lane works as a pickup spot.
Farm trucks tend to wait out the months between harvests in a barn, so take daylight photos outside if you can, and note whether the title carries a personal name or the farm’s name. That detail settles who signs when we come to the property.
The questions we get asked in Highland Heights
- Will you collect a dump truck from a quarry south-east of town?Butler Quarry and the Underground Black River Operation lie 17.7 and 16.7 miles south-east on Mine Safety and Health Administration records, and a truck sitting at either one can be collected where it stands. Tell us which site and who manages the gate.
- What should a Campbell County farmer have ready?Campbell County’s 493 farms, per USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, often title trucks to the farm itself, so check whose name is on the title and have that person available to sign.