Feed and cattle
Grain, hay and livestock haulers around Clayton
Of the 25 carriers registered in Clayton, FMCSA’s carrier census shows 13 hauling grain, feed or hay and 10 hauling livestock. If your truck is a cattle-pot tractor or a hopper rig that has spent its seasons between ranches and elevators, tell us what trailer it pulled and whether that trailer goes with it.
Ten Clayton carriers also list farm supplies, and seven list machinery and large objects, in the FMCSA carrier census. A tractor set up for a lowboy or a flatbed that moved equipment between farms belongs on the same list as the feed trucks. Send photos of the fifth wheel, the deck and the cab so we know the setup before we arrive.
Out on the plains
Cattle, corn and wheat across the county
Around Clayton, 343 farms operate in Union County according to USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, with cattle, corn and wheat at the top of the list. A truck sold off one of those places is often parked at a ranch gate or a barn rather than in town, and that is where we collect it.
Give us the ranch address or clear directions from Clayton, and tell us whether the ground around the truck is gravel, dirt or pavement. Those two answers let us send the right equipment to a farm yard the first time.
Private fleets and a few larger operators
Eighteen of Clayton’s carriers run private fleets, hauling their own goods rather than freight for hire, per FMCSA’s carrier census. If your truck served your own farm or business, the registration and the title in that business’s name are what we need to see.
The three biggest Clayton fleets on FMCSA’s census run 93, 13 and 10 power units, with the largest employing 105 drivers. Selling several trucks from one fleet works the same way as selling one: list each VIN, and we can plan collection of the whole group from one yard.
FMCSA’s census splits the town’s carriers into 10 interstate and 15 intrastate operations. A truck that stayed inside New Mexico and one that crossed into Texas, Oklahoma or Colorado both carry a title we can work with; just tell us which state registered it.
Odometers on the plains
Short annual mileage, long driver routes
Half of Clayton’s 25 carriers, ten of them, report mileage to FMCSA, and their median truck logs 5,457 miles over a year. Have the odometer reading ready with the VIN, since those two numbers come first in every conversation we have about a truck.
Drivers for Clayton carriers split 41 on short local runs and 124 working longer routes, a roughly three-to-one tilt toward distance in FMCSA’s carrier census. A truck from a long-haul operation may be parked away from town when you call, so tell us where it actually is.
FMCSA roadside inspection records for 30 Clayton trucks checked between September 2024 and August 2026 show a median model year of 2013.5, with two in three ten years old or more. A 2009 feed truck or a 2019 cattle tractor gets the same first question from us: make, model, year and VIN.
Gravel and cinders
Pits and mines west of town
Just 2.8 miles west of Clayton, Southwest Crushing Portable Jaw Crusher works sand and gravel, as the Mine Safety and Health Administration lists it. Dump trucks and tractors that pulled end-dumps out of a pit that close to town are part of what we buy here.
Further out, Cinder Mountain Mine sits 22.3 miles west as an industrial-mineral mine on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list. County Business Patterns from the Census Bureau count 9 construction establishments in the area as well. If your truck hauled aggregate or cinders, tell us whether it is at the pit, a contractor’s yard or your home.
The New Mexico Motor Vehicle Division runs NM MVD Field Office - Clayton at 834 MAIN ST, Clayton, 88415, one of its MVD field offices, 1.6 miles from the center of town. If the title is lost, that office is where a replacement starts, and it is close enough to handle in an afternoon errand.
Bring the registration and your ID to that Main Street counter, and if a lender is still on the title, ask the MVD about the lien release there. A title in your name, or in your business’s name, is what lets us complete the purchase.
New Mexico’s clean truck rules and the local workforce
New Mexico has two heavy-truck rules in force, Advanced Clean Trucks and Heavy-Duty Omnibus. Both govern new vehicles and new engines; a diesel truck already titled in your name can still be sold to us.
Clayton’s employment stood at 888 in 2023 on the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts. Whether the truck belongs to you or to one of those employers, gather the title, the registration and any service records before you send photos.
The questions we get asked in Clayton
- Can a cattle truck sitting on a Union County ranch be collected there?Union County has 343 farms on USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, and we collect from ranch yards as readily as from town. Send the address or directions and a note on the access road.
- The truck’s title went missing years ago; can the counter in Clayton issue another?NM MVD Field Office - Clayton, at 834 MAIN ST, is 1.6 miles from town and is run by the New Mexico Motor Vehicle Division. Once that Main Street office issues the new title, send us a photo of it and we can set the collection.
- Do you buy livestock and grain trucks?Clayton’s FMCSA carrier census lists 10 livestock haulers and 13 grain, feed and hay haulers, and their tractors are trucks we buy. Say whether the pot trailer or hopper is part of the sale or stays on the ranch.
- Can I sell a truck that is parked at a gravel pit?Southwest Crushing Portable Jaw Crusher sits 2.8 miles west of town on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list, and a truck parked at a site like that can be collected there. Give us the site name and who can let us in.