Tri-axles on the East Fork stone roads
Barely past the edge of Williamsburg, 3.1 miles toward the north-west, the Mine Safety and Health Administration records Batavia Mine as an active crushed-stone pit. A dump truck or tri-axle that hauls out of a pit that close to town is usually parked at the quarry gate or in a driveway nearby, so tell us which one and whether we need someone there to let us in.
Further out, the Mine Safety and Health Administration places Eagle Crushed Stone 19.6 miles east and Ohio Stone of Lynchburg, a dimension-stone quarry, 21.4 miles north-east. If your truck has carried block or aggregate from either site, send a photo of the body and the hoist along with the cab and the VIN plate.
Evans Gravel, a sand and gravel operation 15.2 miles west on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list, rounds out the pits within a short drive. Whichever of these your truck worked, keep its service records with it; they tell us what the truck has done before we arrive.
Forty carriers and a lot of car haulers
FMCSA’s carrier census shows 40 active carriers based in Williamsburg, and 12 of them list motor vehicles as cargo while 7 list driveaway and towaway work. A wedge, a stinger or a car-hauler tractor from one of those outfits is a truck we buy; have the title and the registration together before you call.
General freight is listed by 22 of the town’s carriers in FMCSA’s census, and 7 carry machinery and large objects, which means lowboys and heavy tractors sit alongside the dry vans. Tell us the trailer type with the tractor and whether you are selling both or one.
On FMCSA’s figures, 22 carriers here run intrastate, 17 run interstate and 15 operate private fleets. A private-fleet truck often has its paperwork held by the company’s office rather than the driver, so ask whoever keeps the records for the title before the pickup is booked.
Short-run and long-run drivers in Williamsburg
Drivers working out of Williamsburg split between short and long runs: FMCSA’s carrier census counts 118 operating within a hundred-mile radius and 91 going beyond it. A truck on a long run may be parked somewhere other than town when you decide to sell, and that is fine; give us the address where it actually sits.
The median truck here covered 17,119 miles a year across the 16 carriers that reported mileage to FMCSA. Read the odometer and include that figure with your photos so the details match on the day we collect.
Fleet sizes vary widely in the FMCSA census: one carrier runs 75 power units with 107 drivers, another 32 power units with 9 drivers, and a third has 4 of each. Whether you are selling one tractor or several, list each VIN and where each unit is parked.
Yards both ways
From the Midland City yard across to Clare
The North American Rail Network, kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, puts the Midland City rail yard 18.3 miles north-east and the Clare yard 18.7 miles west. A tractor that shuttles loads to either yard can be collected from the lot where it waits; tell us whose ground it is on.
Westward, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics lists two liquid bulk terminals, one at 18.7 miles and a Kinder Morgan terminal at 21.3 miles. If your tractor pulled tank trailers into those sites, mention any terminal inspection paperwork you kept, and say whether the trailer goes with the sale.
Plant floors, warehouses and Clermont farms
The Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts recorded 643 jobs in Williamsburg in 2023, with 149 in manufacturing, or 23.2 percent, and 116 in transportation and warehousing, or 18 percent. Box trucks and straight trucks from plant and warehouse work are on our list as much as tractors are.
Construction shows up too: County Business Patterns from the Census Bureau counts 15 construction establishments. Dump trucks, flatbeds and service bodies from site work all qualify; photograph the body and any mounted equipment as well as the cab.
Clermont County’s 815 farms, counted in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, grow mainly soybeans and corn and keep a good number of horses. Grain trucks and the tractors that pull horse and livestock trailers are trucks we buy, and a farm truck parked in a barn or field can be collected from there.
Seven and a half miles to Batavia
The Clerk of Courts office in Batavia
Ohio titles are handled by the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles through County Clerk of Courts title offices, and its office list gives Williamsburg’s as the Clermont County Clerk of Courts Title Office at 457 W. Main Street, Batavia, 45103, which the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles places about 7.5 miles from town. A seller who has lost the title applies for the replacement there.
If the title still shows a lienholder, bring the lien release to that Batavia office along with your ID when you apply. Once you have a clean title in hand, send us a photo of the front of it with the truck’s VIN visible so the two can be matched.
The questions we get asked in Williamsburg
- My tri-axle is kept at Batavia Mine; will you collect it from the pit lot?Batavia Mine is 3.1 miles north-west of Williamsburg on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list, and we collect trucks from quarry lots like it. Give us the name of whoever opens the Batavia Mine gate and we set the visit with that person.
- Which Batavia office reissues a missing Ohio truck title for Williamsburg owners?Batavia holds the Clermont County Clerk of Courts Title Office, listed by the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles at 457 W. Main Street, 7.5 miles from Williamsburg on the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles’ office search. Get the replacement there before the truck is collected.
- I run a stinger rig out of Williamsburg hauling cars; is that something you take?Twelve of Williamsburg’s 40 carriers in FMCSA’s census haul motor vehicles, and their tractors and car-hauler rigs are trucks we buy. Send photos of the tractor and the trailer and say whether both are for sale.