Paper, beverages, grain
General freight, paper and beverage loads from the village
Lodi is home to 26 active motor carriers on FMCSA’s carrier census, and 16 of them list general freight among what they carry. If your tractor or straight truck pulled mixed loads out of the village, have the title and current registration together before you call, since those two papers settle most of what we ask first.
Paper products show up on 4 Lodi carrier registrations, beverages on 3 and grain, feed or hay on another 3, according to FMCSA’s carrier census. Say which of those loads your truck was set up for, and send photos of the body or trailer coupling alongside the cab, so the pictures match the work you describe.
Of those 26 outfits, FMCSA lists 11 as interstate and 15 as intrastate, and 11 run private fleets that haul their own goods. A private-fleet truck may be titled to the business rather than to you, so check whose name is on the title before the pickup is booked.
Small outfits, with a few that run twenty units
The three fleets at the top of FMCSA’s carrier census for Lodi run 20, 15 and 6 power units, with 20, 15 and 7 drivers. An owner selling several units from one yard can list every VIN in a single message and we plan one visit around the whole group.
Two new carriers registered in Lodi in 2025 and none in 2024, FMCSA’s carrier census shows. A truck bought within the last couple of years may still carry a lien from its financing; if so, have the lender’s name and the payoff contact ready, and we work the release through with them.
Five Lodi carriers report annual mileage to FMCSA’s carrier census, and their median truck covers 7,875 miles a year. Note the odometer reading when you first get in touch, as it is the second thing we ask for after the VIN.
Forty-three short-haul drivers
Local runs and longer lanes out of Medina County
FMCSA’s carrier census counts 43 drivers at Lodi carriers working within a hundred-mile radius and 62 going beyond it. A driver who runs the longer lanes may have the truck parked somewhere other than home; tell us the address where it actually sits, and we collect it there.
Roadside inspection records from FMCSA cover 25 trucks from Lodi carriers inspected between September 2024 and August 2026, with a median model year of 2017 and 44 percent built ten or more years earlier. Keep any inspection reports and service records you have with the title; they give us the truck’s history on paper.
Asphalt terminals and gravel sites around the village
North-east of Lodi, 9.1 miles out, the Energy Information Administration lists the Roofing & Asphalt Division of Owens Corning as a petroleum product terminal, and a second terminal, Lorain, sits 18.5 miles north. If your tanker or tractor served either one, mention it, and keep any site safety cards or terminal access records with the truck’s file.
Heading south, the Mine Safety and Health Administration lists the Wooster Plant sand and gravel operation 19.9 miles away and Wood Quarry, a crushed-stone site, at 22.9 miles. A dump truck or tri-axle that is still parked at a pit can stay there; give us the site contact who can open the gate, and we arrange the collection with them.
Up toward Elyria, 23.4 miles north of Lodi, a rail yard appears on the North American Rail Network that the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics keep. Day cabs that shuttle between that yard and nearby docks are trucks we buy, wherever they are parked at the end of the shift.
Corn, soybeans, milk and plant work
Around Lodi and across Medina County, USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture records 1,007 farms, with corn, soybeans and milk as the leading products. Grain trucks and milk haulers often sit in a barn lot between seasons; tell us the farm road and whether a tractor can reach the truck, and we plan the pickup around it.
Manufacturing accounts for 28.3 percent of work located in Lodi under the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts for 2023. A box truck or straight truck registered to a plant should come with a signed note from whoever is authorised to sell company vehicles, along with the title.
Contractors around Lodi run 11 construction establishments, going by the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns. Anyone selling a flatbed or dump truck from one of those firms can send the VIN, registration and a few photos of the bed in one message to get things started.
Getting a duplicate title at the Medina clerk’s office
In Ohio, titles go through the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles, and its County Clerk of Courts title offices issue them. The Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles lists the Medina County Clerk of Courts Title Office at 976 N Court St, Medina, 44256, about 11 miles from Lodi, as the nearest place to replace a missing certificate.
Bring photo identification and the VIN when you visit the Medina office, and if the truck is titled to a business, bring proof that you can sign for it. Once the duplicate is in hand, send us a photo of the front and we can move ahead with the sale.
The questions we get asked in Lodi
- Which office near Lodi issues a duplicate Ohio title for a truck?The Medina County Clerk of Courts Title Office, 976 N Court St, Medina, 44256, is about 11 miles from Lodi and handles titles for the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles. Take photo identification and the truck’s VIN with you to the counter.
- Will you take a corn or milk truck off a farm outside Lodi?Medina County has 1,007 farms growing corn and soybeans and producing milk in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, and grain and milk trucks from those farms are trucks we purchase. Photograph the truck where it stands in the barn lot and send those pictures with the VIN.