Grain and farm-supply outfits based in Versailles
Grain, feed and hay appear on the cargo lists of 16 Versailles carriers, and farm supplies on 15, out of the 41 active outfits that FMCSA’s carrier census places in this town. If your tractor or straight truck has pulled hopper trailers or feed bodies for one of those outfits, tell us the body type and trailer setup when you first get in touch so we arrive with the right plan for the collection.
Of those Versailles carriers, 25 run interstate and 15 stay inside Ohio, with 24 counted as private fleets under the same FMCSA census. A private fleet truck usually carries the owning business’s name on its registration, so have the title holder’s details and any lienholder release on hand before we arrange a visit.
Three new Versailles carriers registered in 2025 and none in 2024, by FMCSA’s carrier census. Whether you are an operator who started up last year or one winding down after decades, the steps are the same: VIN, title, photos of the cab, frame and tires, and an address where the truck sits.
Quarry ground east and south-east of town
C F Poeppelman Inc runs a crushed-stone quarry 8.6 miles south-east of Versailles, according to the Mine Safety and Health Administration. Dump trucks and tri-axles that work a pit like that are often parked at the quarry yard rather than at home, so give us the site name and who can let us through the gate.
Further east, the Mine Safety and Health Administration records Hardin Sand and Gravel at 13.5 miles and the Barrett Paving Materials Inc quarry at 14.3 miles, with Milton Materials, LLC at 15.7 miles to the south-east. A truck kept at any of those operations can be collected where it stands; send the location and a phone number for whoever is on site.
Darke County’s 27 construction establishments, as tallied in the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns, are where much of that stone ends up. If your dump body or flatbed has hauled aggregate from these pits to those job sites, list the attached equipment, such as a tarp system or a pusher axle, so the photos and the description line up.
The rail yard and the freight around it
Head 9.2 miles west of Versailles and you reach the Ansonia rail yard, a stop the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics map on the North American Rail Network. General freight is the cargo 20 Versailles carriers list in FMCSA’s census, and a day cab that shuttles loads between town and that yard can be picked up at either end.
Dry bulk shows up on the filings of 11 local carriers, by FMCSA’s carrier census. Pneumatic tankers and bulk trailers come with their own paperwork, so bring any tank inspection certificates or blower service records you keep alongside the tractor’s title.
Hog barns, corn and soybean fields
Around Versailles, livestock and row crops share the land: the USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 1,761 farms in Darke County and lists hogs, corn and soybeans as the leading products. Livestock trailers and grain trucks from those operations are often stored in a machine shed or barn lot, and we come out to the farm to collect them.
Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting accounts for 92 jobs, 3.3 percent of the 2,811 counted for Versailles in the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts for 2023. If a seasonal grain truck sits most of the year, a few recent photos and the registration paperwork are enough to start the conversation.
Factory docks
Manufacturing and transport jobs in Versailles
Manufacturing holds 1,182 of the 2,811 Versailles jobs, a 42 percent share, in the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts. Box trucks and tractors that serve plant docks may be parked in a shipper’s lot; tell us whose property it is so the pickup can be arranged with them.
Versailles adds 332 transportation and warehousing jobs and 204 wholesale trade jobs to that factory base, again by LEHD’s 2023 count. If your truck ran regional delivery routes for one of those employers, gather the maintenance log and the current registration before we schedule a look.
Between August 2024 and August 2026, 199 trucks belonging to Versailles carriers were stopped for checks, and FMCSA roadside inspection records give them a median model year of 2024, with 14.6 percent at ten or more model years. Whatever the model year of yours, have the VIN and the odometer reading ready, since nearly every other question follows from those two.
Among the 20 local carriers that report mileage, the median per truck is 15,541 miles a year in FMCSA’s carrier census, and the biggest Versailles fleet runs 130 power units. Whether you are selling one truck or several, send a list of VINs and where each unit is parked.
The Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles handles titles through County Clerk of Courts title offices, and the one for this area is the Darke County Clerk of Courts Title Office at 641 Wagner Avenue, Suite C, Greenville, 45331, about 10.3 miles from Versailles. If the title is missing, start a duplicate there before you set a collection date.
A truck titled to a business needs the signature of someone authorised to sign for it, and a truck that was once financed needs the lien release. Bring both to the Greenville title office if the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles record still shows the old lienholder.
The questions we get asked in Versailles
- My tractor pulls a grain hopper for hog and corn farms near Versailles. Do you buy grain trucks and hopper tractors?Grain, feed and hay is declared by 16 Versailles carriers in FMCSA’s carrier census, and those tractors and grain trucks are part of what we buy. Send the VIN, photos and the address of the farm where it is stored.