Plant freight and the trucks that move it
Factory work fills 3,632 of Clyde’s 5,734 jobs, close to two in every three at 63.3 percent, when the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts for 2023 are split by sector. If your tractor or box truck has spent its time shuttling parts and finished goods between Clyde’s plants and the yards east of town, tell us which docks it served and whether it is still parked at a plant lot, so we know whose gate to arrange.
Wholesale trade holds 202 jobs here and transportation and warehousing another 131, on the same LEHD figures. A straight truck or a day cab that has done local delivery work for either is the kind of unit we collect in Clyde; send the VIN, a photo of the odometer and pictures of each side, the cab and the frame rails before anything else.
Fourteen of the 33 active carriers based in Clyde list general freight, as recorded in FMCSA’s carrier census, while nine list machinery and large objects and five list metal sheets, coils and rolls. A flatbed or step deck that has carried coil or plant machinery belongs on that list too, and a note on what the deck was set up to carry helps us read the photos.
Stone pits east, west and south-east, rail to the east
Flat Rock Quarry, a dimension-stone operation 7.2 miles to the south-east, appears in Mine Safety and Health Administration records alongside Precision Aggregates III, a crushed-stone pit 9.2 miles west, and Sandusky Quarry, 10.4 miles east. A dump truck or tri-axle parked at any of those sites can stay there; give us the site name and someone who can let us onto the property.
Two rail yards lie due east along the same line out of town, Klines at 6.5 miles and Bellevue at 9.7, on the North American Rail Network maintained by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. If your truck has run drayage or transload work out of either, the bill of sale and the title in your name are what we will ask for at collection.
Bellevue also has a petroleum product terminal 10.7 miles east, listed by the Energy Information Administration, and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics records Norfolk Southern TBT, a liquid bulk terminal 14.5 miles north-east. A tanker tractor that has fed those terminals should come with its registration and any inspection sheets you kept.
Short hauls, private fleets and miles
Of Clyde’s registered carriers, 25 run intrastate and seven cross state lines, and FMCSA’s carrier census counts 18 of them as private fleets hauling their own goods. If your truck belonged to a private fleet, check that the title names the company or person who is actually selling before we schedule the pickup.
Drivers working within 100 miles number 139 against 61 who go beyond that radius, per the same FMCSA carrier census. Six carriers in that census report mileage, and FMCSA’s figures put their median is 45,787 miles a truck each year; give us your own odometer figure exactly as the dash shows it.
One fleet based here runs 74 power units with 90 drivers on FMCSA’s carrier census, and the next two run eight and seven units. Selling one truck out of a group like that works the same way as selling a single unit; list each VIN and where each one is parked.
Sort the 45 Clyde-carrier trucks in FMCSA roadside inspection records, from September 2024 through August 2026, by build date and the middle one is a 2022. Have the registration card and your most recent service invoices together, since they answer the questions we would otherwise ask by phone.
Across those same 45 inspected trucks, 24.4 percent were ten or more model years old, according to the roadside inspection records. Older or newer, tell us the model year and engine, and send a clear photo of the data plate on the door jamb.
Sandusky County fields and local roads
Around Clyde the harvest is soybeans first, corn second and wheat third, and USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture puts 752 farms in Sandusky County growing them. A grain truck or hopper tractor that has hauled from those fields at harvest can be collected from the farm itself; describe the lane and where the truck sits in the yard.
Of the six Clyde bridges in the National Bridge Inventory, not one carries a load posting or sits below 14 feet; tell us the street the truck is parked on and the gate or yard it sits behind. County Business Patterns from the Census Bureau records 15 construction establishments in the area, so if your truck is a dump or a mixer from a building job, tell us which site it is on now.
Title, lien and keys for a Clyde pickup
New registrations in Clyde stood at two carriers in 2024 and two more in 2025 on FMCSA’s carrier census. If your outfit is one of those recent starts and the truck is still financed, have the lienholder’s name and account details ready so the title can be released to the sale.
A title that has gone missing has to be replaced through Ohio’s title agency before the truck changes hands, so start that request first. Along with it, keep the keys, the registration and any manuals in the cab for the day we come to Clyde.
The questions we get asked in Clyde
- Can you collect a dump truck sitting at Flat Rock Quarry or another stone pit near Clyde?Flat Rock Quarry sits 7.2 miles south-east of town and Precision Aggregates III 9.2 miles west, on Mine Safety and Health Administration records, and we collect from sites like those. Name the pit and a person on site who can let our driver through.
- Do you buy flatbeds that hauled coil or plant equipment?Five Clyde carriers list metal sheets, coils and rolls and nine list machinery in FMCSA’s carrier census, and trucks from that work are ones we purchase. Send photos of the deck, the tie-down points and the cab with the VIN.
- Will you take a grain truck that hauled soybeans and corn off Sandusky County fields?Sandusky County has 752 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, and grain trucks from that ground are part of what we collect. Tell us the farm address and have the title ready in the seller’s name.