Monroe County Stone
A quarry a tenth of a mile from Main Street
The Mine Safety and Health Administration places Monroe County Stone, a crushed-stone quarry, just 0.1 miles north-east of Tompkinsville. A dump truck or tri-axle that hauls aggregate out of that pit can usually stay parked right where it works; send us the yard address and the name of whoever holds the gate key.
Grider Quarry, another crushed-stone operation, lies 16.5 miles east of town according to the Mine Safety and Health Administration. If your truck splits its runs between the two pits, tell us which one it is closer to on the day you call, and include photos of the bed, the hoist and the cab so the description and the pictures line up.
Lumber and heavy loads
Log trailers and lowboys out of Tompkinsville
Of the 109 active carriers that FMCSA’s carrier census lists for Tompkinsville, 42 say they haul logs, poles, beams or lumber, and 40 say they move machinery and large objects. Log trucks with knuckleboom loaders and tractors coupled to lowboys are both on our list here.
General freight is listed by 37 of those carriers and farm supplies by 35, the federal census shows. Whatever your tractor pulled, have the VIN, the odometer reading and the registration card in hand before you reach out; those three answer most of what we ask first.
Kentucky routes before interstate ones
Intrastate operators outnumber interstate ones here, 73 to 36 among the town’s carriers in FMCSA’s carrier census, and 84 of them run as private fleets hauling their own goods. A truck kept for a farm, a sawmill or a contractor’s own loads is exactly the kind we collect from a barn lot or a shop yard.
Drivers tied to these carriers split 369 inside a hundred-mile radius against 131 who go farther, per FMCSA’s carrier census. FMCSA’s census also puts the median at 17,057 miles a year per truck across the 34 carriers that reported mileage. Note the odometer figure in your first message alongside the VIN.
New authority keeps appearing too: the carrier census records seven new Tompkinsville carriers in 2025 and five in 2024. If you started a small outfit recently and are selling its first truck, the steps for you are the same as for anyone who has hauled here for decades.
Roadside stops near the Kentucky line
Between September 2024 and August 2026, FMCSA roadside inspection records logged 98 trucks tied to local carriers, with a median model year of 2017.5. Those same roadside inspection records show just under 42 percent of the trucks were ten or more model years old.
Those figures cover both newer and older units, and we take either. Keep any inspection reports and service records you have together with the truck, and mention them when you write. Fleets here range up to one with 141 power units and 141 drivers in the carrier census, so if you are selling several trucks at once, send a list with each VIN.
Replacing a lost title in Tompkinsville itself
The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet handles vehicle titles through county clerk offices, and the one for this town is the Monroe County Clerk at 200 North Main Street, Suite D, Tompkinsville, 42167-1548, zero miles from the centre of town. That office is the place to start if the title has gone missing.
Bring the registration and a photo ID when you ask that clerk’s office about a duplicate, since the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet titles vehicles through it. If a lender is still listed on the title, have the lien release with you as well, and let us know about it when you first get in touch.
Farms and factory floors
Cattle, corn, dairy and a manufacturing base
Around Tompkinsville, 674 farms operate across Monroe County in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, which ranks cattle first, then corn and milk. A grain truck, a livestock hauler or a milk tanker parked behind a farmhouse is a pickup we arrange at the farm. Tell us the road name and describe the lane up to where the truck stands.
The Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts show 1,807 jobs in the town in 2023, with manufacturing holding 259 of them, or 14.3 percent, and wholesale trade 64. A box truck from a plant dock or a dump truck from a building crew sells the same way: photos, VIN, title, and the address where it sits.
The questions we get asked in Tompkinsville
- Do you buy log trucks and lowboy rigs from around here?Logs and lumber are hauled by 42 of the town’s 109 active carriers in FMCSA’s carrier census, and machinery by 40. We buy both kinds of truck; send photos, the VIN and the odometer reading to start.