Aggregate pits and clay workings around Scioto County
The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists BCE Materials Inc, a sand and gravel operation, 2.7 miles south of town. If your dump truck or tri-axle hauls aggregate from that pit, give us the street address where it parks and the gate details when you first get in touch.
Tow Path Ready Mix, 14.6 miles north-west, appears on the same Mine Safety and Health Administration register as another sand and gravel site. Mixer trucks and the tractors that pull end dumps between a pit and a batch plant are trucks we buy; send a photo of the VIN plate and one of the odometer along with the title so we can match the paperwork to the truck.
Further out to the north-east, Cedar Heights Clay at 17.8 miles and the DTS Sands bag plant at 23.9 miles are both industrial-mineral mines on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s register. If your truck is still sitting on one of those properties, tell us who controls access to the lot so the collection can be arranged with them directly.
Rail sidings from Portsmouth down to Ironton
Wheelersburg’s nearest rail yard is at Portsmouth, six miles west, as mapped on the North American Rail Network that the Federal Railroad Administration maintains with the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. For a tractor that shuttles loads to and from that yard, the pickup address is wherever it parks: the shop, the driveway or the yard lot.
Ironton has both a rail yard, 18.1 miles south-east on the North American Rail Network, and a liquid bulk terminal 18.8 miles out that the Bureau of Transportation Statistics lists. A tank truck or a tractor set up for tanker work around Ironton is welcome; list the trailer it pulled, if any, and whether the tractor will be sold on its own.
Whichever side of Scioto County the truck works, keep the registration with the title. Ohio plates and the title in the same name make the handover simple, and if the names differ, tell us early so the right person signs.
Private fleets beside for-hire haulers
According to FMCSA’s carrier census, 36 active carriers are based in Wheelersburg. The same FMCSA census shows 20 of them cleared for interstate work, 16 running intrastate only and 21 operating as private fleets that haul their own goods; a contractor’s or a farm’s truck is as welcome as a for-hire tractor.
General freight is the cargo 22 of those carriers declare to FMCSA, followed by machinery and large objects at 8, with dry bulk commodities and farm supplies at 6 each. A lowboy tractor that moved equipment, a van tractor on general loads and a hopper or dump truck on bulk all fit what we collect.
The three biggest fleets registered in town, per the same federal census, run 21, 20 and 12 power units. If you manage a small fleet like those and want to sell several trucks at once, send a list of VINs and where each one is parked, and we will work through them together.
New registrations have been steady but small: FMCSA’s carrier census records four new carriers in Wheelersburg in 2024 and one in 2025. If you started an operation recently and are now selling the truck, the title and the bill of sale from your purchase are the two papers to keep together.
Building crews and their haulers
Of the 2,226 Wheelersburg jobs in the Census Bureau’s LEHD counts for 2023, construction accounts for 128, a 5.8 percent slice. Dump trucks, flatbeds and equipment haulers serve those crews, and a contractor selling one should have the title, the registration and any service records the shop kept.
On the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns tally, Wheelersburg has 24 construction establishments. If your truck belongs to one of those businesses rather than to you personally, the business name on the title is the name that signs, so have an officer of the company ready to sign.
Soybean, corn and horse farms in Scioto County
Scioto County has 585 farms on USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, and soybeans, corn and equine lead its list. Grain trucks, livestock and horse haulers and farm-plated straight trucks from those operations are part of what we buy.
Six Wheelersburg carriers tell FMCSA they haul farm supplies. A farm truck often sits in a barn or a field lane, so describe the spot, whether a loaded truck can reach it and whether the ground is firm, and send a photo of where it is parked.
The questions we get asked in Wheelersburg
- Can you pick up a dump truck sitting by the BCE Materials gravel pit outside Wheelersburg?BCE Materials Inc sits 2.7 miles south of Wheelersburg on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list, and we collect from the place the truck is parked. Pass along the pit road address plus a phone number for the person holding the gate key.
- Does a Wheelersburg private fleet hauling only its own goods qualify to sell a truck?Private fleets make up 21 of the 36 active carriers in Wheelersburg on FMCSA’s carrier census, and their trucks are trucks we buy. Bring the company title and whichever officer is allowed to sign for the business.
- Which details help most with a grain or horse truck off a Scioto County farm?Scioto County’s 585 farms, counted by USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, grow mostly soybeans and corn and keep horses, so their trucks vary. Send the VIN, the odometer reading, a few photos and a note on where it is parked.