Moraine side of the river
Two rail yards east of Drexel
Head 4.4 miles east from Drexel and you reach the MORAINE rail yard, with MORAINE TV a little beyond at 4.8 miles south-east, both mapped in the North American Rail Network that the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics maintain. A day cab that shuttles trailers between those yards and the warehouses around them is a truck we buy, and it can stay parked at the lot where it last dropped a load.
If your tractor spends its shifts around Moraine, tell us the street and gate where it is parked. A yard address plus the name of whoever holds the keys lets us set up collection without moving the truck back to Drexel first.
West Carrollton pits
Dump trucks from the pits around the west side
Barrett Paving Mats Inc-West Carrollton, a sand and gravel operation on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list, lies 4.5 miles south-east of town. Further out, MSHA records Eagle Materials LLC / Ernst Agg Plant 5 at 9.3 miles to the south-west. Tri-axle dumps and tandem gravel trucks that load at sites like these fit what we take on.
Northward, MSHA lists a crushed-stone quarry at Phillipsburg 11.5 miles to the north-west and another at Huber Heights 12.4 miles north-east of Drexel. For a dump body or a quarry tractor, photograph the bed, the hoist, the frame rails and the VIN plate, and send the build sheet if you kept one.
A truck that is still parked at a pit or quarry scale house can be collected there. Let us know which site, and whether the operator needs a gate pass arranged before anyone arrives.
Toward downtown Dayton
Fuel haulers loading east of Drexel
According to the Energy Information Administration, a petroleum product terminal named DAYTON stands 7.6 miles east of Drexel. Straight trucks and tractors that pull fuel trailers out of a terminal like that belong on our list.
With a fuel truck, keep the tank’s test and inspection paperwork alongside the title, since it tells us the trailer’s history without a site visit. Say whether you are selling the tractor alone or the tractor and tanker together, and where each one is parked.
Dayton’s Third Street
Third Street paperwork for Drexel trucks
Titles in Ohio are issued through the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles, which handles them at County Clerk of Courts title offices. For Drexel, the nearest is the Montgomery County Clerk of Courts Title Office at 451 W Third St, Dayton, 45422, which the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles places 5.2 miles from town.
If the title is missing or still lists a lender, go to that Third Street office before you call us and ask for a duplicate or a lien release. Have your registration and a photo ID in hand, and keep the lender’s release letter with the new title once it is printed.
A small job base next to a large farm county
Drexel is a small employer on its own, with the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts (LODES) recording 332 positions located in town during 2023. Most of the heavy hauling tied to this town runs out to the yards, pits and terminal around it, so tell us where the truck actually worked as well as where you live.
Outside the Drexel streets, corn, soybeans and cattle lead the 789 farms that USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture tallies across Montgomery County. Grain trucks, livestock haulers and farm straight trucks that sit in a barn lot outside Drexel can be collected right where they are parked.
For a farm truck, note the body type, whether it carries farm plates and which field or barn it stands in. Those three details let us plan the pickup around the planting and harvest calendar.
The questions we get asked in Drexel
- Will you pick up a Drexel dump truck that is parked at the Barrett Paving pit?Barrett Paving Mats Inc-West Carrollton sits 4.5 miles south-east of Drexel on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list, and a truck parked at a site like that can be collected at the site. Give us the site address and the contact who opens the gate.
- My Drexel truck’s title went missing; is the Clerk of Courts on Third Street the place to fix that?The Montgomery County Clerk of Courts Title Office at 451 W Third St, Dayton, 45422 is 5.2 miles from Drexel, per the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles. Request the duplicate there, and bring a lien release if a loan was ever recorded on the truck.
- Do you take tractors that haul out of the Moraine rail yards?MORAINE and MORAINE TV, two yards 4.4 and 4.8 miles from Drexel in the North American Rail Network, are exactly where such tractors run. Day cabs and sleepers from that work are on our list; send the VIN and the yard where the truck is parked.
- Does a Drexel-area grain truck from corn and soybean fields fit what you purchase?Corn and soybeans lead the 789 farms that USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts in Montgomery County, and grain trucks from that work are ones we buy. Tell us the body type and the barn or field where it stands.