Two pits, one heading
Quarry trucks off the Caldwell Stone road
Drive 3.9 miles north-east out of Junction City and you reach Caldwell Stone, which the Mine Safety and Health Administration records as a crushed-stone quarry. If your dump truck or tri-axle has been hauling stone out of that pit, it may well be parked at the quarry or at your yard when we come for it; give us the gate contact and the hours the site is open so the pickup fits around the loading schedule.
Further out on the same heading, Dix River Stone is an eight-mile run north-east, again on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list of active quarries. A truck that splits its weeks between the two pits can be collected from either one. Send photos of the bed, the hoist and the cab, plus the registration, and tell us which quarry it is sitting at.
The yard up the road
Three and a half miles to the Danville yard
Day cabs that shuttle loads between that yard and shippers around Boyle County are among the tractors we buy, and we come to the yard or the shop rather than asking you to move the truck.
If the tractor is parked near the Danville yard, tell us whose lot it is on and who can let our driver in. Have the title, the cab card and any service records together before the visit, so the handover at the rail yard is a signature rather than a search through the glovebox.
Plated in Junction City
Mostly intrastate haulers on the Junction City roll
Thirty-four active carriers are registered around Junction City in FMCSA’s carrier census, and 28 of them run intrastate against 6 that cross state lines. Most of the trucks we would collect here, then, are Kentucky-plated and parked within reach of home. Tell us the street address or farm road where yours stands.
General freight is the commonest cargo on those registrations, with 15 carriers listing it, while 11 list machinery and large objects; both counts come from FMCSA’s carrier census. Lowboys, flatbeds and the tractors that pull them fit what we buy, and a note of the trailer type and axle count with your photos helps us plan the right collection.
Of those carriers, the federal census counts 29 as private operations hauling their own goods, and the biggest single operation runs six power units with six drivers, followed by outfits of three and two. If you are selling one truck out of a small yard like that, keep the other units clear of it on collection day and have the title in the owner’s name ready.
Cattle, corn, beans
Cattle, corn and soybean trucks off Boyle County farms
Around Junction City and across the rest of Boyle County, USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 491 farms, with cattle, corn and soybeans the leading products. Grain trucks, livestock haulers and farm-plated straight trucks from operations like those are trucks we take, collected from the barn lot or the field gate.
Farm supplies appear on 8 carrier registrations in FMCSA’s carrier census, and logs, poles, beams and lumber on another 8. A log truck or feed hauler that sits between seasons can be picked up where it is stored. Photograph the frame, the knuckle boom or body, and the plate, and tell us whether it carries farm or commercial registration.
Short runs, local jobs
Where the drivers work and who builds nearby
Most driving here is close to home: FMCSA’s carrier census shows 42 drivers operating inside a hundred-mile radius and 13 working beyond it. That points to a truck that is usually back in Boyle County at night, so tell us where it parks between runs and we can arrange to meet it there.
Seven construction firms are open near Junction City according to the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns. Dump trucks, flatbeds and service bodies used on building sites are welcome; if yours is on a job site, ask the site manager for access and pass us the contact.
New entrants are few, with FMCSA’s carrier census recording two carriers starting in 2024 and one in 2025. If yours is a recently registered operation winding down, have the USDOT number and the title ready, and we will ask about the rest when you call.
Clerk’s office, West Main
Lost titles go through the clerk in Danville
Kentucky Transportation Cabinet rules send Junction City’s truck titles through the county clerk offices rather than a state counter. For Junction City sellers, the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet’s listing points to the Boyle County Clerk at 321 West Main Street, Room 123, Danville, 40422, which is 4.3 miles from town.
If the title is lost or still shows an old lienholder, sort that out at the Boyle County Clerk before collection; bring your ID, the registration and the lien release letter. A replacement or a clear title in your name is what our driver needs to see when the truck is loaded.
The questions we get asked in Junction City
- Our tri-axle sits at the Dix River Stone pit eight miles out; can you collect it there instead of town?Dix River Stone sits eight miles north-east of Junction City on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s quarry list, and we collect from the quarry itself. Send the name of whoever opens the quarry gate and the days the pit is working.
- Which clerk replaces a missing title for a Junction City truck?The Boyle County Clerk, at 321 West Main Street, Room 123, Danville, is the county clerk office the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet uses for titles, 4.3 miles from Junction City. Take a photo ID and the current Kentucky registration with you to the clerk’s counter.
- Do you take farm-plated grain or livestock trucks?Boyle County’s 491 farms, counted by USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, raise mostly cattle, corn and soybeans, and the trucks that serve them are ones we take. Let us know whether the grain or stock truck carries farm tags and which barn or field it stands in.