Sugarcreek
The mine and the rail yard south-east of Walnut Creek
Down the road to the south-east, the Mine Safety and Health Administration records Sugarcreek Operations as an industrial-mineral mine 5.1 miles from Walnut Creek. A truck that has hauled out of a site like that is usually a tri-axle dump, a tractor under an end-dump or belly-dump trailer, or a water truck kept on the mine property. If yours has, tell us which it is and send a photo of the bed or trailer with the cab, so the rig we come to collect is the rig you described.
The North American Rail Network, maintained by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, places the Sugarcreek rail yard 5.8 miles south-east of town, under a mile beyond the mine. A tractor that has worked between a rail siding and a plant may well be parked at the yard rather than at home; if that is where yours sits, give us that address and the name of whoever opens the gate.
Gravel ring
Four pits and quarries ringing Walnut Creek
To the north-west, Feikert Sand & Gravel Inc runs a sand and gravel operation that the Mine Safety and Health Administration lists 9.1 miles from Walnut Creek, and D & M Rocks LLC, a crushed-stone quarry, is 9.7 miles out to the west on the same administration’s list. Aggregate hauling from pits like these is dump-truck and transfer-trailer work, and the title for such a truck often names a business rather than a person. Check whose name is on it before you contact us, and have that owner ready to sign.
North-east of the village, the Soehnlen Brothers pit is another sand and gravel operation, 9.8 miles out according to the Mine Safety and Health Administration, and the Kimble Clay, Limestone Quarry and Mill sits 11.3 miles east on the same administration’s records. If your dump truck or quarry tractor has run between those sites, photograph the bed, the tailgate and the tires along with the cab, and note the registered gross weight from the registration card. Those are the facts we ask about first for an aggregate truck.
Coal and Dover
Coal preparation and the Dover yard
East of Walnut Creek, CCU Tuscarawas Strip is listed as a coal preparation plant 12.4 miles from town by the Mine Safety and Health Administration. Coal-prep hauling puts tractors under frameless end-dumps and coal buckets, and the trucks that serve a strip operation are often registered to the mine’s contractor rather than to the driver. Whoever’s name is on the Ohio title is the person who signs it over, so settle that before the pickup is booked.
A little further out, the Dover rail yard is 12.9 miles east of Walnut Creek on the North American Rail Network kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. A day cab that has pulled between Dover and the plants and pits around Sugarcreek will have done its miles inside a short circle. Tell us the odometer reading and the engine make when you first contact us; for a short-haul tractor those two answers settle most of what we would otherwise ask.
Plants and loading docks in Walnut Creek
Manufacturing accounts for 44.2 percent of the jobs in Walnut Creek, 447 of 1,011 in 2023, on the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts. Plants run straight trucks and box trucks for local delivery and day cabs for the loads that go further, and when one of those is replaced the old unit is often sold by the business that owns it. If you are that business, the title, the registration card and the service file for the truck are what we need to see first.
On the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts for 2023, the village holds 1,011 jobs in all, and the 447 in manufacturing are the ones most likely to have a truck parked at a loading dock. If the truck you are selling lives behind a plant, tell us the dock hours and the name at the gate, and send photos taken in daylight so the frame, the box and the cab are all visible.
Milk, corn and cattle on the roads out of town
Around Walnut Creek, USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 1,736 farms in Holmes County, and milk, corn and cattle are the leading products on that count. Milk moves in bulk tankers, corn in grain trucks and hopper trailers, and cattle in livestock trailers behind a tractor or a heavy pickup; a farm sale here could be any of those.
A tanker that has hauled milk from the dairies in Holmes County, which USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture puts at 1,736 farms with milk as the top product, carries a tank that we want to see inside and out. Send a photo of the barrel, the rear manifold and the cab, and tell us the tank’s capacity from its plate. Farm trucks are often titled to the farm partnership; the partner named on the title is the one who signs.
Millersburg
Signing the title in Millersburg
Ohio titles are issued by the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles through County Clerk of Courts title offices; for Walnut Creek that means the Holmes County Clerk of Courts Title Office in Millersburg, 9.8 miles away on the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles’ office search, at 75 East Clinton Street, Office Building Suite #103, 44654. If the title to your truck is lost, that is the office that issues a replacement, and it is the same office that records a lien release. Go there before we come, not after.
Bring the title, the registration card and a photo ID when you meet us, and if the truck is titled to a business, bring whatever shows you can sign for it. The Holmes County Clerk of Courts Title Office in Millersburg handles a duplicate title and a lien release under the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles’ rules; what it does not need to see is the truck, so the truck can stay wherever it is parked while the paperwork is sorted.
The questions we get asked in Walnut Creek
- My dump truck is kept at the Feikert pit north-west of Walnut Creek rather than at my house; can the pickup happen at the pit gate?Feikert Sand & Gravel Inc is 9.1 miles north-west and D & M Rocks LLC 9.7 miles west on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list, and we collect from either, or from any yard around Walnut Creek. Give us the pit’s address and the name of the person who lets us in.
- The Ohio title for my truck is nowhere in the house; is a duplicate something the Millersburg office issues?On the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles’ office list, the Holmes County Clerk of Courts Title Office at 75 East Clinton Street, Office Building Suite #103 in Millersburg is 9.8 miles from Walnut Creek, and a duplicate Ohio title comes from there. Get the duplicate in hand before you set a pickup date with us.
- Our farm partnership holds the title to the truck. Which partner signs it over?With 1,736 farms in Holmes County on USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, a title in a partnership’s name is common around Walnut Creek. The partner named on the title signs it over; bring whatever paper shows that person can act for the partnership.
- I pulled coal from the Tuscarawas plant with a day cab. Would you take a tractor like that?CCU Tuscarawas Strip, the coal preparation plant the Mine Safety and Health Administration places 12.4 miles east of Walnut Creek, is exactly the kind of site a day cab we buy has served. Give us the VIN and odometer reading, then photos of the cab, the fifth wheel and the frame rails.
- Do you buy a milk tanker as well as the tractor?Milk is the top product across the 1,736 farms USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts in Holmes County, and a tractor sold with its tank trailer is a common sale around Walnut Creek. Tell us whether the trailer has its own title, and have both titles ready if it does.