Gravel runs
A gravel pit three miles west, another six north-east
The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists a sand and gravel operation called Plant #2 just 2.9 miles west of Gnadenhutten, and Midvale Sand & Gravel 6 miles to the north-east. Pits that close to town are worked by dump trucks, tri-axles and tractors pulling belly dumps and end dumps, and those are the trucks we expect to hear about from owners here. When you contact us, say which pit the truck hauled from and what it carried, and we will know what we are looking at before the photos arrive.
A dump truck that has spent its life on the gravel run is usually parked at the owner’s house, a contractor’s yard or on the pit’s own lot, and we collect it from any of those. Have the title and the current registration ready, and photograph the bed, the tailgate, the hoist and the tires as well as the cab, since those are the parts a gravel truck is judged by.
Coal to the east and west, limestone to the north
Two coal preparation plants bracket the town: Stonecreek Mine 7.3 miles to the north-west and Tusky Prep 7.4 miles east, both recorded by the Mine Safety and Health Administration. The Mine Safety and Health Administration also places the Kimble #1 coal mine 11.4 miles north, the Vail Mine 12.8 miles south-east, and the Kimble Clay, Limestone Quarry and Mill, a crushed-stone quarry, 11.2 miles north-west. Coal trucks, stone haulers and the tractors that pull walking-floor and side-dump trailers between those sites are all trucks we purchase.
If your truck ran coal out of a prep plant or stone out of the Kimble quarry, gather the scale tickets, the service records and any plant site paperwork you still have. They tell us what the truck did and where, and a seller who hands them over at the start answers most of our questions in one go. A truck kept at the mine or quarry does not need to come into Gnadenhutten for the sale; give us the lot and a name at the gate.
The Dover yard, eleven and a half miles north
The North American Rail Network, kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, marks a rail yard at Dover 11.5 miles north of Gnadenhutten. Day cabs that shuttle loads between the yard and the plants around town, and the flatbeds that carry what comes off the cars, are on the list of what we take.
FMCSA’s carrier census shows what those flatbeds are carrying from here: 5 of the 12 carriers based in Gnadenhutten haul logs, poles, beams and lumber, and 3 haul metal sheets, coils and rolls. A flatbed or step-deck that has done that work should come to us with its VIN, its odometer reading and photos of the deck, the winches and the headache rack, so what we see matches the load it was built for.
A dozen carriers call Gnadenhutten home
Gnadenhutten is home base to 12 active carriers in FMCSA’s carrier census, 5 of them running interstate and 6 intrastate, with 6 registered as private fleets. The cargo they declare to FMCSA is mostly general freight, listed by 9 of the 12, and machinery and large objects, listed by 6. That mix means the trucks for sale in town run from box trucks and day cabs to lowboys and the tractors that pull them, and we buy across that whole range.
One fleet here runs 21 power units with 20 drivers, according to FMCSA’s carrier census; the next two down run 9 power units with 5 drivers and 4 power units with 2 drivers. FMCSA’s census also counts 27 drivers working within a hundred miles of base and 11 going beyond it, and records 1 new carrier registered in Gnadenhutten in 2025 after none in 2024. Whether you are a one-truck operator or the owner of the biggest yard in town, the process is the same: the VIN, the odometer reading, the title and a set of photos.
Plant and farm trucks
Manufacturing, three construction firms and a dairy county
The Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts give Gnadenhutten 318 jobs in 2023 and put 171 of them, a 53.8 percent share, inside manufacturing. The Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns adds 3 construction establishments in town. Plant trucks, straight trucks with liftgates, and the pickups and service bodies a construction firm keeps are all trucks that come up for sale in a town built this way, and a company selling a fleet vehicle should have the registration in the company’s name and someone authorised to sign.
Out past the town line, Tuscarawas County counts 1,154 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, with milk, corn and cattle as its leading products. Grain trucks, milk tankers and the cattle haulers that serve those farms are trucks we collect from the farm itself; photograph the truck where it stands, note whether a trailer or a tanker is included, and tell us how a flatbed tow truck would get in and out of the lane.
Uhrichsville
The title office is five miles down the road
For a Gnadenhutten seller the title stop is the Tuscarawas County Clerk of Courts Title Office in Uhrichsville, one of the County Clerk of Courts title offices the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles issues titles through, at 206 E. Third Street, Uhrichsville, 44683, a 4.9-mile trip by the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles’ listing. A lost or missing title is replaced there; sort that out before the sale rather than during it, and bring the registration and your identification when you go.
A truck still financed will have a lien noted on its Ohio title, and the lender’s release is part of what we need to close. Check the title for the lienholder’s name before you contact us, and if the loan is settled, ask the lender for the release letter so it is ready when we collect the truck in Gnadenhutten or in Uhrichsville.
The questions we get asked in Gnadenhutten
- My tri-axle is parked at the gravel pit west of Gnadenhutten; can the pickup happen at the pit?Plant #2, the sand and gravel operation the Mine Safety and Health Administration places 2.9 miles west of Gnadenhutten, is close enough that we collect from the pit lot itself. Tell us who runs the lot and when the gate is open, and we arrange the pickup with them.
- I have lost the title to a truck that lives in Gnadenhutten. Where is the replacement issued?The Tuscarawas County Clerk of Courts Title Office handles it, 4.9 miles from Gnadenhutten by the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles’ office listing, at 206 E. Third Street in Uhrichsville. Take the registration and your identification, and have the replacement in hand before we schedule the collection.
- Our yard in Gnadenhutten has several trucks to sell; can they go in one sale?FMCSA’s carrier census counts 12 carriers based in Gnadenhutten, with fleets from 4 power units up to 21, and we buy from fleets of every size on that list. Send the VIN and odometer reading for each unit, say whether they are at one yard or spread across several, and we plan one collection or more around that.
- The truck hauled coal to Tusky Prep; does that history change anything about the sale?Tusky Prep is a coal preparation plant 7.4 miles east of Gnadenhutten in the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s records, and coal haulers from there are trucks we buy. What helps is the history: scale tickets, service records and photos of the truck and its trailer, sent with the VIN.