Dump trucks on the Lowdermilk pit road
Lowdermilk, a sand and gravel operation that the Mine Safety and Health Administration lists 6.9 miles west of Chimayo, is the nearest pit to the valley. A tandem or end dump that loads there is likely to be parked either at the pit gate or in a yard in Chimayo itself, so say which when you first get in touch.
Gravel trucks from Lowdermilk often carry a scale ticket book or a site sign-in sheet in the cab. Leave those with the truck, add a photo of the VIN plate and the bed, and the driver who comes to Chimayo will know what to look for.
South on the mesa
Cerrito Pelado and the longer mineral run
Down to the south, about 21.5 miles from Chimayo by the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s reckoning, Cerrito Pelado operates as an industrial-mineral mine. A tractor or straight truck that ran ore or crushed material out of that site may be sitting closer to the mine than to town.
Give us the access road for Cerrito Pelado and whether a rollback or lowboy can reach the truck there. If it is already back in a Chimayo driveway, a street address and a note about the gate are all we need.
Building-trade trucks in a small valley town
Only 3 construction establishments are based in Chimayo on the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns tally. With so few contractors, the flatbeds, dump bodies and utility trucks behind them tend to stay parked at the owner’s home or shop between jobs.
If your contractor truck is one of those, collect the registration, any shop invoices you kept and a photo ID in one place. We come to the home, the shop or the job site, so the truck does not need to move before we arrive.
Stock and feed trucks in the valley
Chimayo lies inside Santa Fe County, where USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture recorded 591 farms, with cattle ranked first, ahead of corn and goats. Gooseneck haulers, stock trucks and the flatbeds that carry hay between pastures belong on the list of trucks we will take.
A ranch truck near Chimayo may sit behind a fence or down a dirt lane rather than on pavement. Tell us how the gate opens and whether the lane stays passable, and we will arrange a carrier that can get in.
Santa Clara Peak Road
Espanola’s MVD counter, eight miles down the road
Duplicate titles in this part of the state come from the New Mexico Motor Vehicle Division through its MVD field offices; the one serving Chimayo is NM MVD Field Office - Espanola, 1121 Santa Clara Peak Rd, Espanola, 87532, roughly 8.2 miles away according to the New Mexico Motor Vehicle Division. A missing title is replaced at that Espanola counter.
Ask for the replacement before we book the pickup if you can, and bring any lien release with you. Once the title reads in your name with no lien on it, the hand-over in Chimayo needs only your signature on it.
Heavy-duty standards
Diesel trucks under New Mexico’s heavy-duty standards
The New Mexico Register lists two rules in force for heavy vehicles: Advanced Clean Trucks, the medium- and heavy-duty zero-emission vehicle requirement, and Heavy-Duty Omnibus, the exhaust emission standard for heavy-duty engines. A Chimayo owner holding a diesel truck with a clear title can still sell it to us outright.
For a Chimayo seller, the list we ask for is unchanged by either rule: the title, the registration, a few photos and the address where the truck is parked.
The questions we get asked in Chimayo
- Can a dump truck parked at Lowdermilk be collected from the pit?Lowdermilk sits 6.9 miles west of Chimayo on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list of sand and gravel operations, and we collect from pits like it as well as from homes and yards. Tell us the gate and who can let a carrier in.
- Where does someone in Chimayo get a duplicate truck title?NM MVD Field Office - Espanola, at 1121 Santa Clara Peak Rd, is about 8.2 miles from Chimayo, per the New Mexico Motor Vehicle Division, and that office handles titles for the state.
- Will you take a cattle truck off a ranch near Chimayo?Cattle top the list for Santa Fe County’s 591 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, and the stock trucks and hay flatbeds those ranches use are trucks we buy; send photos and the ranch road details.
- Does the Advanced Clean Trucks rule stop me selling my diesel in Chimayo?New Mexico’s register lists Advanced Clean Trucks as an in-force zero-emission vehicle requirement, and an owner in Chimayo with a titled diesel truck can still sell it to us.