Just over two miles south-east of the Crystal Lakes shoreline homes, the Mine Safety and Health Administration lists Barrett Paving Materials Inc as a sand and gravel operation, 2.2 miles out. A tandem dump or tri-axle that loads there most mornings is the kind of truck we collect around here, so tell us the axle count and bed length when you first get in touch.
Enon Sand & Gravel, listed by the Mine Safety and Health Administration 4.8 miles east of town, is a short run out toward Enon. If your dump truck spends its nights at a pit gate rather than at home, give us that address; we pick up from the yard where the truck already sits, and a gate code or a contact name on site saves a second trip.
From the Huber Heights quarry to the Fairborn kilns
West of Crystal Lakes by 6.8 miles, the Mine Safety and Health Administration records a crushed-stone quarry under the Huber Heights name. Stone haulers working that face often run end-dumps or belly-dump trailers behind a day cab, and we take the tractor and the trailer together or apart, whichever you prefer.
The Fairborn Cement Plant lies 8.1 miles south-east on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list. Bulk pneumatic tankers and ready-mix trucks that load cement there should come with their registration and any service records you keep in the cab, plus clear photos of the drum or tank, the frame and the tires.
Wright-Patterson’s gate and the Needmore yard
Five miles and a bit to the south, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base appears in the Bureau of Transportation Statistics as a military installation. For box trucks and straight trucks that run deliveries to the base gates, list the body type and lift-gate details, so we know what we are coming to look at.
Needmore, a rail yard on the far side of Huber Heights, sits 9.5 miles south-west of Crystal Lakes in the North American Rail Network kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. A tractor that shuttles transload freight from that yard can be photographed where it is parked; send the VIN with the pictures and we start from there.
Tankers that fill south-west of Crystal Lakes
Two petroleum product terminals under the Dayton name sit about 10 and 10.2 miles south-west, per the Energy Information Administration. Fuel tankers that rack-load there carry their own paperwork, so keep the tank inspection sheets with the title when you sell.
For a tank truck based near those terminals, tell us whether it is a straight truck or a tractor pulling a separate trailer. The answer decides what equipment we bring to the pickup in south-west Clark County or across the line toward Dayton.
Barn-lot pickups around the lakes
Around Crystal Lakes, the farm trucks mostly serve corn, soybean and hog operations, the top three in Clark County, which counted 833 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture. A grain truck or livestock hauler that only comes out at harvest can be collected from the barn lot where it waits.
A hog trailer or grain box truck kept on a family farm here is often titled to a parent or a farm partnership. Check that the name on the title matches the person selling before we come out, and have the keys, any spare key and the registration ready in one place.
The Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles issues titles through County Clerk of Courts title offices, and for Crystal Lakes sellers that is the Clark County Clerk of Courts Title Office at 430 North Main Street, New Carlisle, 45344, which the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles places 3.8 miles from town.
If the title has gone missing, a visit to that New Carlisle counter for a duplicate is the step to take before pickup. Bring photo identification, and if a lender once held the truck, bring the lien release too, so the title comes back clear.
The questions we get asked in Crystal Lakes
- Will you pick up a hog trailer or grain truck from a farm near Crystal Lakes?Hogs rank third behind corn and soybeans on Clark County’s 833 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, and livestock haulers and grain trucks from those farms are on our list. Keep the title, signed by the owner named on it, with the registration in the cab.