Four stone and gravel pits inside thirteen miles
South-west of Leesburg, the Mine Safety and Health Administration lists Ohio Asphaltic Limestone Corp’s crushed-stone quarry 9.3 miles out and Ohio Stone of Lynchburg’s dimension-stone quarry 11.7 miles out. Dump trucks and tri-axles that cycle between those pits and local job sites are exactly the kind of truck we buy. If yours worked the quarry loop, send a photo of the bed and the tailgate along with the cab, so we can see the body the truck carries as well as the truck.
Ervin Hill Enterprises’ sand and gravel operation is 12.4 miles south-west of the village, and the Main Melvin crushed-stone quarry is 12.5 miles to the north-west, both on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list. A truck that hauled aggregate from either site is usually parked at a yard or down a farm lane rather than in Leesburg itself. Give us the address where it sits and the name of whoever can meet us there; the sale does not require moving it first.
Highland County farms
Hopper trucks for the soybean and corn fields
Around Leesburg, grain trucks, hopper-bottom tractors and livestock trailers share the roads with everything else, because USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 1,188 farms in Highland County and ranks soybeans, corn and hogs as its leading products. We buy farm trucks, single units and whole farm fleets alike, and a truck that only ever left the farm at harvest is as welcome as one that worked all year.
Eleven of the 41 carriers in FMCSA’s carrier census for Leesburg list grain, feed and hay as a cargo, and eight list farm supplies. If the truck is titled to the farm rather than to you, whoever signs for the farm signs the title, and the registration should carry the same name. Check both documents before you call so the names line up at the sale.
Carriers that stay inside Ohio, and the ones that leave
FMCSA’s carrier census shows 41 active carriers based in Leesburg: 24 of them intrastate, 16 interstate, and 20 of the 41 operating private fleets that haul their own goods. In the same FMCSA census, general freight is the cargo named most often, by 24 carriers, with machinery and large objects named by nine. A private fleet selling a tractor usually keeps its service file in the office; bring it, or tell us it exists and we will ask for the parts that matter.
Of the drivers counted for Leesburg by FMCSA’s carrier census, 87 work close to home, inside a hundred miles, and 46 go further afield. Day cabs carry the short-haul side and sleepers the long-haul side, and we buy both. Tell us which yours is and the odometer reading, and the rest of our questions follow from that.
Two new carriers registered in Leesburg in 2025 and three in 2024, according to FMCSA’s carrier census, and the three biggest fleets in the village hold 28, 12 and six power units with 28, 14 and six drivers. A fleet replacing a tractor or two sells to us the same way a single owner does: the VIN, the title, and where the truck is parked.
Model year 2020, the midpoint of what gets inspected
Between September 2024 and August 2026, FMCSA roadside inspection records took in 37 trucks tied to Leesburg carriers; the median model year among them was 2020, and 29.7 percent had reached ten or more years of age. Those are the trucks that come up for sale here: a mix of recent tractors and a smaller group from a decade back. A 2020 tractor and one from the earlier group are both trucks we will buy in Leesburg.
Fifteen Leesburg carriers report mileage to FMCSA’s carrier census, and the median works out to 23,786 miles per truck a year. Whatever the odometer on yours reads, send it with the VIN; those two numbers open every conversation we have about a truck.
Manufacturing, construction and the yard at Midland City
Leesburg held 509 jobs in 2023, and manufacturing accounted for 54 of them, a 10.6 percent share, according to the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts. Seventeen construction establishments appear in the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns for the village. Straight trucks, flatbeds and service bodies from those businesses are trucks we buy, with or without the equipment mounted on them; tell us what is on the back when you send the photos.
Due west of Leesburg, 19.7 miles out, sits the Midland City rail yard, which the North American Rail Network of the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics records as the nearest yard to the village. A tractor that pulled loads to or from that yard can be sold from wherever it sits now; we collect from the yard, a shop or the driveway. Have the registration in the cab and the title in hand, and photograph the frame, fifth wheel and tires as well as the cab.
Seven miles to the clerk of courts in Hillsboro
A Leesburg seller’s title is an Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles document, and the Bureau hands that work to County Clerk of Courts title offices rather than to a state counter. The Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles lists the office for Leesburg as the Highland County Clerk of Courts Title Office, Suite 502A of the Hi-Tech Building at 1575 N High St, Hillsboro, 45133, which is 7.7 miles from the village. If the title is missing, a duplicate from that office is the first step; we cannot complete a purchase of a truck without one.
Bring the title, the registration and any lien release with you when we meet. If a bank still holds a lien on the truck, tell us at the start so the release can be arranged with them before we meet rather than discovered at the table.
The questions we get asked in Leesburg
- My grain truck is parked on the farm outside Leesburg, not in town, so will the pickup happen at the farm lane?Highland County’s 1,188 farms, by USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, are spread well beyond the village line, and we collect from farm lanes as a matter of course. Give us the address and a gate contact, and we come to the truck.
- My truck’s title has gone missing somewhere between Leesburg and the farm, so which Highland County office issues the duplicate?The Highland County Clerk of Courts Title Office at 1575 N High St. in Hillsboro, 7.7 miles from Leesburg, issues Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles titles for the county. Apply there for a duplicate before the sale; we need the title in hand to buy the truck.
- Do you buy dump trucks that hauled from the quarries south-west of town?The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists two quarries and a sand and gravel pit within 12.4 miles south-west of Leesburg, and the trucks that served them are what we buy here. Photograph the dump body from the side and the rear, add the VIN, and that is enough to start.
- Do you buy older tractors as well as recent ones?FMCSA roadside inspection records show 29.7 percent of the 37 Leesburg-area trucks inspected since September 2024 were ten or more years old, and the median model year was 2020. We buy across that whole range; the model year is a fact we note, not a filter.
- The truck belongs to our private fleet in Leesburg, not to me personally, so who signs when the company sells it?Twenty of Leesburg’s 41 carriers in FMCSA’s carrier census operate private fleets, so company-owned trucks are a normal sale here. An officer of the company signs the title, and the registration should carry the company’s name.