Gravel at Placitas, stone toward the south-west
Just 1.9 miles south of Bernalillo, PLACITAS is registered with the Mine Safety and Health Administration as a sand and gravel operation. A dump truck or end dump that loads there is likely parked within a few minutes of town, so give us the yard address and the name of whoever holds the gate key when you first reach out.
Ten miles out to the south-west, Salls Portable Quarry Equip. appears in Mine Safety and Health Administration records as a crushed-stone quarry, 10.2 miles from the city. If your truck is sitting at a quarry site rather than at home, tell us so; we arrange collection at the pit and you sign the paperwork from wherever you are.
For an aggregate hauler working Placitas or the quarry road, send photos of the bed, the hoist, the tires and the cab, plus the VIN plate.
Tankers that load in Albuquerque
Holly Asphalt, a liquid bulk terminal 13.3 miles south-west of Bernalillo, is on the Bureau of Transportation Statistics list. Close by, the Energy Information Administration records two Albuquerque petroleum product terminals at 13.4 and 16.6 miles from town. If your tractor has pulled tank trailers between those sites, mention whether the tank goes with the sale or stays behind.
Hazmat haulers usually carry inspection reports and tank test records; keep those with the title and registration, since they tell us where the truck has worked without a single phone call to the terminal.
Abajo rail yard and the Guard site at Rio Rancho
According to the North American Rail Network, kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, the ALBUQUERQUE-ABAJO rail yard lies about 17.9 to 18.2 miles south of Bernalillo. Day cabs that shuttle loads to that yard can be collected right where they are parked in the south valley; you do not have to bring the tractor north.
NG Rio Rancho TS, a military installation 6.9 miles to the north-west, appears in Bureau of Transportation Statistics records. If your truck is kept on or near a secured site like that, give us a contact who can sign us in, and we will plan the pickup around their access rules.
FMCSA’s carrier census counts 55 active carriers based in Bernalillo, with 47 running intrastate and 8 running interstate, and 26 of them operate as private fleets. A private fleet truck often carries a company name on the door and a business title, so have the officer who can sign for the company ready when you contact us.
General freight leads the cargo list at 24 carriers in the same FMCSA census, followed by machinery and large objects at 11, logs, poles, beams and lumber at 10, and garbage and refuse at 9. Box trucks, lowboys, log trailers and roll-off or rear-load refuse trucks all fit what we take, and the body type is the first detail we ask about.
In that federal census the three biggest fleets here run 16, 13 and 11 power units, while FMCSA lists 5 new carriers registered in 2025 and 2 in 2024. Selling one truck out of a small fleet works the same as selling a single owner-operator rig: one title, one VIN, one pickup.
Driver radius, yearly miles and bridges
Drivers working within 100 miles number 86 in the FMCSA census for Bernalillo carriers, against 56 who go beyond that radius. A truck working those short runs is usually back at its yard at night, which makes it easy for us to find; tell us the yard and the hours it is open.
Nine Bernalillo carriers gave FMCSA a mileage figure, and the median truck among them covers 45,422 miles a year. Write the current odometer reading down next to the VIN when you send photos, since it is one of the first two numbers we look at.
A tall or heavy unit can reach most collection points here without a detour, but let us know if the truck sits beyond that one posted bridge.
Construction jobs, farms and the county
Of the 4,620 jobs in Bernalillo in 2023, construction held 387, manufacturing 278 and transportation and warehousing 63, according to the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts. Dump trucks, flatbeds and service bodies from a building contractor are part of what we buy here.
USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 709 farms in Sandoval County, with cattle, equine and mushrooms at the top of the list. A livestock hauler or ranch flatbed parked out on county land can be collected there; send a map pin or written directions to the gate along with the photos.
The questions we get asked in Bernalillo
- Can you collect a dump truck straight from the Placitas gravel pit south of Bernalillo?PLACITAS is 1.9 miles south of Bernalillo on the Mine Safety and Health Administration list, and we collect from the pit itself. Send the yard address and the gate contact.
- Where does a Bernalillo owner go for a duplicate New Mexico truck title?In Bernalillo, as anywhere in New Mexico, a duplicate title comes from the state’s title agency. Start that request before the sale and tell us it is underway, so the paperwork is ready when the truck is.
- Can you pick up a Bernalillo tanker that is parked down at an Albuquerque fuel terminal?The Albuquerque petroleum terminals on the Energy Information Administration list sit 13.4 and 16.6 miles south-west of Bernalillo, and we arrange collection right at the terminal. Give us the site name and who signs us in.