Quarry ground four miles up the road
Egypt Valley Stone, a crushed-stone quarry the Mine Safety and Health Administration places 4.4 miles north-west of Bethesda, is the closest pit to the village, with Uniontown Stone 9.8 miles to the north-east. A tri-axle or tractor that has spent its shifts between those two pits and job sites can stay parked at the yard or the shop where it sits; give us the location and someone who can let us on the property.
Coal work is just as close. CCU Belmont Strip, listed by the Mine Safety and Health Administration as a coal mine 6.4 miles west, and the Vail Mine 17.5 miles north-west both lie within a short drive. If your truck hauled from a strip pit, note the body type, the axle setup and the VIN when you first get in touch, and send photos of the bed, the frame rails and the cab.
The dock at Bellaire and the coal route east
Out toward the Ohio River, the Mine Safety and Health Administration records CCU Bellaire Dock as a coal preparation plant 17.6 miles east of Bethesda. A truck that ran loads from the Belmont County pits to that dock may be sitting at either end of the run today, and we can collect from the plant side or from your own lot.
Tell us which end the truck is at and whether a loader or gate code is needed to reach it. A copy of the registration and any service log you kept from the coal hauls helps us match the truck to what you describe.
Fourteen small outfits, half crossing state lines
FMCSA’s carrier census counts 14 active carriers based in Bethesda, with seven running interstate, seven staying inside Ohio and seven operating as private fleets hauling their own goods. Whichever group yours falls in, the paperwork we ask for is the same: the title, the current registration and the USDOT number the truck ran under.
General freight is the cargo listed most often, by seven of those carriers in the federal census, while three list dry bulk commodities and another three haul metal sheets, coils and rolls. Flatbeds and step-decks rigged for coil and dump trailers for bulk stone both fit what we purchase; include the trailer with the tractor if you are selling both.
The biggest operation on FMCSA’s register here runs nine power units and eight drivers, the next three units and the third two. If you are winding down a small fleet like those, list every unit by VIN and where each one is parked, and we can plan the collections together.
Drivers who mostly stay near home
FMCSA’s carrier census ties twenty drivers at Bethesda carriers to routes inside a hundred-mile radius of home base and six to longer hauls beyond it, so most local rigs end the shift in a yard in or near the village, which is usually where we pick them up.
One new carrier registered in 2024 and another in 2025, per the same federal census. If yours is a newer authority and the truck is still titled to you personally rather than the company, tell us, so the right name goes on the bill of sale.
Feed haulers and stock trailers in cattle country
Bethesda is ringed by pasture: USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture lists 756 farms in Belmont County, with cattle, milk and equine operations at the top. Two carriers in the village list farm supplies as cargo under FMCSA’s census, so feed haulers and livestock trucks are part of the local mix.
A grain truck, a cattle hauler or a tractor that pulls a stock trailer can be collected from the barnyard or the field lane where it stands. Have the title in the farm’s or your own name, and if the truck carried farm plates, say so up front.
County Business Patterns from the Census Bureau records three construction establishments in the area, so dump trucks and equipment haulers turn up here beside the farm rigs. Whatever the work, one set of photos covering the cab, the frame and the body is enough to start.
Ohio titles are issued through the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles by County Clerk of Courts title offices, and for Bethesda that means the Belmont County Clerk of Courts Title Office at 52180 National Rd Suite A, St. Clairsville, 43950, the address the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles gives for it. That counter on National Road is 12.6 miles from Bethesda by the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles office search, a short drive west from the village.
If the title has gone missing, a duplicate from that St. Clairsville clerk’s office is the step to take before the sale. Bring your identification and the VIN, and if a lender held a lien on the truck, carry the release letter with you so the new title prints clean.