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Elmore · Ottawa County · Ohio

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Elmore sits on the Portage River in Ottawa County with two stone quarries within about four miles of the village, and the trucks that work here haul aggregate, grain and farm supplies across the flat ground toward Toledo and Lake Erie.

Selling a truck in Elmore? Tell us about it and we'll take it from there.

Pits by the Portage

South-west of the village by 3.9 miles, the Mine Safety and Health Administration lists the Woodville Plant, a crushed-stone operation whose loaded trucks run the county roads into Elmore. Dump trucks and tri-axles that load at a pit like that often sit parked near the scale house or a gravel yard rather than at a home address, so tell us exactly where yours is and who can let us in.

Graymont Dolime (OH) Inc. operates another crushed-stone quarry 4.1 miles north-west of the village, according to Mine Safety and Health Administration records. If your truck has spent its working life between these two sites, send photos of the bed, the hoist and the cab together, and have the title in the name that appears on the registration.

Of the 10 active carriers with an Elmore address in FMCSA’s carrier census, seven are private fleets hauling a farm’s or a firm’s own goods. A farm or business that owns a straight truck or tractor for its own use can sell it to us the same way a for-hire operator would: the title, the VIN and a few clear photos are where it starts.

Of those ten carriers on the FMCSA register, six are authorized for interstate work and four stay inside Ohio. Driver records in that same federal census put 19 drivers within a 100-mile radius and 8 beyond it, so a truck from here may be parked at a yard out of state when you contact us; give us that address, not your own.

One Elmore fleet has seven power units and five drivers on FMCSA’s census, another has six units and seven drivers, and a third runs three units with five drivers. Owners selling more than one truck at once can list every VIN in a single message and we will plan collection around all of them.

Harvest hoppers and livestock rigs off the Elmore fields

Around Elmore, 590 farms across Ottawa County are counted in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, with soybeans, corn and cattle as the leading products. Grain hoppers, tandem straight trucks and livestock haulers from those operations are trucks we collect, often straight from a barn lot or field edge.

Grain, feed and hay is a cargo listed by six of the village’s carriers, and farm supplies by five, on FMCSA’s carrier census. If your truck spends most of the year parked between harvests, a recent photo of the odometer and the VIN plate settles most of our questions before we ask them.

Manufacturing work and refrigerated loads

In Elmore, plant work fills 180 of the 404 jobs the Census Bureau’s LEHD counts recorded for 2023, close to 44.6 percent of the village’s employment. Box trucks and tractors that shuttle parts or finished goods for plants like these can be sold with their service records, which help us understand how the truck was used.

Four carriers based here haul refrigerated food, and seven list general freight, according to FMCSA’s census. For a reefer unit, tell us whether the trailer is part of the sale or only the tractor, and send a photo of the reefer’s hour meter alongside the cab interior.

Rail yards, fuel terminals and the port to the north-west

The North American Rail Network, kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, places the Walbridge yard 12.4 miles north-west of Elmore and the Stanley yard 13.5 miles in the same direction. A tractor that pulls containers or trailers off those yards can stay at the terminal lot; we arrange pickup where it is parked.

Petroleum product terminals at Oregon and Toledo, 15 and 15.7 miles north-west, appear in Energy Information Administration listings, and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics places the Toledo-Lucas County Port 17.4 miles out. Tankers and port drayage trucks from that corridor need a clear title and the gate contact for wherever they sit.

Replacing a lost certificate at the Ottawa County courthouse

Elmore sellers deal with the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles, whose certificates are handed out at County Clerk of Courts title offices rather than at license agencies. The one serving Elmore is the Ottawa County Clerk of Courts Title Office at 315 Madison Street Courthouse Room 106A, Port Clinton, 43452, which the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles places 18.4 miles from the village.

If the certificate has gone missing, ask that clerk’s office for a duplicate before we schedule collection, and bring your identification and the VIN. Once the replacement is in hand, sign it over in the name printed on the front, and any lienholder release should travel with it.

The questions we get asked in Elmore

  • My tri-axle sits at the Woodville Plant lot, so must it come into Elmore first?The Woodville Plant sits 3.9 miles south-west of Elmore on Mine Safety and Health Administration records, and we collect from the quarry lot itself. Give us the quarry foreman’s name and the hours the Woodville scale house is staffed.
  • Which Port Clinton office replaces an Elmore truck title that has gone missing?Elmore’s nearest title office is the Ottawa County Clerk of Courts Title Office in Port Clinton, 18.4 miles away according to the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles. Collect the replacement at the courthouse clerk’s counter, then photograph both sides for us.
  • My Elmore grain truck only comes out for soybean and corn harvest; is that one you collect?Ottawa County’s 590 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture grow mostly soybeans and corn, and farm straight trucks and hoppers from them are trucks we buy. Send the VIN, the title and photos, and we collect from the farm.

Sell your truck in Elmore

Elmore lies between the Woodville and Graymont quarries, the Ottawa County farms around the Portage River, and the rail yards, fuel terminals and port toward Toledo.