Coal beside the town
Strasburg’s coal plant and the Kimble pits
Only 1.3 miles east of Strasburg, the Mine Safety and Health Administration lists CCU Tuscarawas Strip as a coal preparation plant. A truck that hauls coal between a strip site and a prep plant like that is usually a tandem or tri-axle dump, and it is often parked right at the site between shifts. Give us the yard or plant address and the name of whoever holds the gate key, and we will plan the collection around that spot instead of asking you to move it.
Further out to the south-east, KIMBLE #1 appears on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list as a coal mine 6.2 miles from town, and the same agency places Kimble Clay, Limestone Quarry and Mill 6.7 miles due south. If your truck spent its working life on those two sites, write down which one and roughly how many seasons; that one line tells us what body and axle setup to expect before the photos arrive.
Sand and gravel on both sides of the Tuscarawas road north
North-west of Strasburg by 3.6 miles, SOEHNLEN BROTHERS SAND & GRAVEL INC is recorded by the Mine Safety and Health Administration as a sand and gravel operation, while Massillon Materials III sits 5.1 miles to the north-east on that agency’s records. Aggregate trucks from pits like these usually carry a dump body or pull an end-dump trailer. Photograph the bed, the hoist and the tailgate along with the cab and the VIN plate so the pictures show the whole unit.
Sugarcreek Operations, an industrial-mineral mine 8.8 miles south-west according to the Mine Safety and Health Administration, rounds out the ring of sites around town. Whichever of these pits your truck served, keep the registration and any scale tickets or service invoices together in the cab; they are the quickest way to show where the truck has worked and who has been looking after it.
Sidings south-east and north-west
The North American Rail Network, kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, places the DOVER rail yard 6 miles south-east of Strasburg and the BREWSTER yard 8.8 miles to the north-west. Tractors and flatbeds that meet freight at sidings like these can be collected at the yard lot, as long as someone can let us in and point out the truck.
If your rig is a day cab that ran short hops between Brewster, Dover and the plants in between, tell us whether it pulled a flatbed, a dump trailer or a van. Matching the tractor to the trailer it usually towed helps us bring the right equipment on collection day.
Of the 21 active carriers that FMCSA’s carrier census places in Strasburg, 12 keep to intrastate work, 9 cross state lines and 8 are private fleets moving their own goods. A private-fleet truck is often titled to a business rather than a person, so have the name on the title match the name of whoever signs the sale, or bring a letter from the company authorising you to sell.
General freight is listed by 15 of those carriers in the same federal census, followed by farm supplies at 6, machinery and large objects at 5, and metal sheets, coils and rolls at 4. A flatbed that has carried coils or machinery usually comes with chains, binders and tarps; tell us which of those stay with the truck so the listing of what we collect is clear from the start.
Strasburg’s three biggest carriers run 11, 9 and 7 power units, going by FMCSA’s carrier census, and the census counts 2 new carriers registered here in 2025 against none in 2024. If you are retiring several trucks from one of these small fleets, send a list of the VINs together and we can collect them in one visit.
Factory jobs and building crews around Strasburg
Of 772 jobs located in Strasburg in 2023, the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts put 229 in manufacturing, close to 30 percent, and 63 in construction. Box trucks and straight trucks that serve plant loading docks often sit in a company yard after hours, so tell us the business address and the hours someone is there to hand over keys.
Strasburg has 9 construction establishments on the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns, and their dump trucks and stake beds tend to be registered to the business. Check that the registration and title carry the same company name before you contact us.
Dairy, corn and cattle trucks off Strasburg’s back roads
Around Strasburg, farm trucks haul milk, corn and cattle: those three lead the list for the 1,154 farms that USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts across Tuscarawas County. Grain trucks, livestock haulers and milk tankers often sit in a barn or machine shed for part of the year; tell us the farm lane and whether the truck can be reached in wet weather.
For a farm truck, the most useful thing to have ready is the title in the name of the person selling it. If a parent or a farm partnership owns it on paper, sort that out with the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles before collection day.
A missing title and the clerk in New Philadelphia
The Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles handles titles through County Clerk of Courts title offices, and the one serving Strasburg is the Tuscarawas County Clerk of Courts Title Office at 125 E. High Ave. Room 125, New Philadelphia, 44663, 8.9 miles from town by the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles’ office search. If the title has gone missing, that county clerk’s office is where a replacement is issued.
Bring your identification and the truck’s VIN when you visit the clerk in New Philadelphia, and if a lender was ever listed on the title, bring the lien release too. Once you have the replacement title in hand, send us a photo of it with the truck’s pictures.
The questions we get asked in Strasburg
- Which office in Tuscarawas County replaces a Strasburg owner’s lost truck title?The Tuscarawas County Clerk of Courts Title Office in New Philadelphia, 8.9 miles from Strasburg according to the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles’ title office search, issues the replacement. Take your driver’s licence, the truck’s VIN and a lien release if a lender ever held the title.
- The truck belongs to my small trucking company in Strasburg. Is a company-titled truck something you take?Eight of Strasburg’s 21 active carriers in FMCSA’s carrier census are private fleets, and business-titled trucks are common here. Sign as an officer of the company, or bring a letter from the business authorising the sale.
- Can you collect a tractor from the Dover rail yard?Dover’s rail yard, 6 miles south-east of Strasburg on the North American Rail Network, is a site we can pick up from. Tell us where in the yard the tractor sits and who can let us in.