Salt, stone and the Thompson Mine
Head 6.5 miles south of Madison and you reach Thompson Mine, which the Mine Safety and Health Administration records as an industrial-mineral operation. A dump truck or tractor that has worked out of that site can stay parked on its lot road or in your yard nearby; give us the location and the name of whoever holds the gate key, and the collection is planned around it.
Twelve miles west, the Morton Salt Fairport Mine and the Grand River Operation crushed-stone quarry both appear in the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s records. If your truck has hauled salt or aggregate between those two sites and Madison, send a photo of the body or trailer it pulls along with the cab, and note the axle setup so we know exactly what we are collecting.
Arms Sand & Gravel, 23.5 miles to the south-west, is another sand and gravel operation the Mine Safety and Health Administration lists. Owners whose trucks run from that pit can tell us the last place the truck was parked and leave it there instead of bringing it back toward Madison first.
Yards at Painesville and Ashtabula, either side of Madison
According to the North American Rail Network kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, the Painesville rail yard lies 11.2 miles west of town. A day cab that shuttles loads to and from that yard can be picked up at your shop or at home in Madison; tell us which address is easier for a truck to reach.
The North American Rail Network places the Ashtabula yard 13.8 miles east. With yards on both sides of town, a seller here may have a tractor parked toward either end of the county line, so give us the street address where it actually sits and the VIN from the door jamb.
Freight, vehicles and machinery hauled from Madison
FMCSA’s carrier census counts 45 active carriers based in Madison, 23 of them listing general freight, 8 hauling motor vehicles, and 5 each carrying farm supplies or machinery and large objects. A car hauler, a flatbed for equipment or a van trailer rig all fit what we buy, so tell us the cargo the truck carried along with the make and model year.
Of those 45, FMCSA’s census records 23 operating interstate, 22 intrastate and 17 as private fleets hauling their own goods. A private-fleet truck often has its registration in a business name, so have the company paperwork and a signer with authority ready before the title changes hands.
Five new carriers registered in Madison in 2025 and none in 2024, by the FMCSA census. If you started hauling recently and are now stepping back, the truck’s title and current registration are the two documents to find first.
Mileage and routes
Miles, routes and fleet sizes
Among the 15 Madison carriers that reported mileage to FMCSA’s carrier census, the median runs 15,000 miles a truck each year. Have the current odometer reading written down when you contact us; it is one of the first figures we ask for.
Drivers here split between local and long routes: the federal carrier census counts 32 drivers working within 100 miles and 52 going beyond that. A long-haul sleeper may be parked away from Madison when you decide to sell, and we collect from where it sits, so tell us the city and lot.
Madison’s top three fleets in FMCSA’s census field 14, 8 and 5 power units against 14, 6 and 5 drivers, so a sale here can be one tractor or several. An owner selling more than one tractor at once can send the VINs together and we work through them as a single collection.
Construction, farms and factory jobs
The Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns puts 43 construction businesses on the books in and around Madison’s corner of Lake County. Contractors with a dump truck, a roll-off or a flatbed used on job sites can send photos of the truck where it is parked, including the bed or hoist, along with any service records.
Lake County’s 243 farms grow soybeans and corn and raise cattle above all else, on USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture. A grain truck or livestock hauler kept in a barn outside Madison can be collected from the farm; tell us whether the lane takes a full-length truck.
Madison held 1,096 jobs in 2023 on the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts, 61 of them, or 5.6 percent, in manufacturing. Trucks that move parts or finished goods for a plant often carry a business registration, so check whose name is on the title before you reach out.
The questions we get asked in Madison
- The dump truck sits on a lot by Thompson Mine south of Madison; does it have to come into town first?Thompson Mine is 6.5 miles south of town on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list, and we collect the truck where it is parked there. Tell us the exact spot and who can let us onto the property.
- The Ohio title for my Madison truck is missing; who reissues it?Ohio titles are reissued by the state’s title agency, and a duplicate should be in hand before the sale closes. Apply in the name shown on the original, and if the truck is registered to a business, bring the company’s paperwork too.
- Would you collect a Madison car hauler along with its deck?Eight of the 45 active Madison carriers in FMCSA’s carrier census haul motor vehicles, and those tractors and haulers are trucks we buy. Send the VIN, the odometer reading and photos of the tractor and the hauler deck.