Orona and Cordova Pit, just past the last houses
Orona sits 1.2 miles east of El Cerro and Cordova Pit 1.6 miles north-east, both carried as sand and gravel operations by the Mine Safety and Health Administration. A tandem dump or end dump that loads aggregate at either one is the kind of truck we collect around here, and it may well be parked at the pit itself on the day we come.
If your dump truck sits inside a gated pit, give us the name of whoever holds the key and the hours the gate is open. Send photos of the bed, the hoist and the cab from both sides, plus the VIN, with your first message.
Mountain States crusher
Crushed stone at Mountain States and the Los Padillas pit
About 10.6 miles west, Mountain States Crusher GCP 3164 appears in Mine Safety and Health Administration records as a crushed-stone quarry. Belly dumps, transfer trucks and water trucks that serve a crushing plant often stay on the quarry floor between shifts, so tell us whether yours is there or back home in El Cerro.
North of town by 12.6 miles, Los Padillas Pit is an industrial-mineral mine on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list. A truck that hauls from Los Padillas into the south valley can be collected at the mine, at a yard in between, or in your driveway; we only need the address and a phone number for whoever will be there.
The Belen yard, ten miles down the river
Ten miles and a bit to the south-west, the North American Rail Network kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics shows the BELEN rail yard, 10.2 miles from El Cerro. Day cabs and flatbed tractors that move freight to and from a rail yard are trucks we take, wherever along that stretch they happen to be parked.
Seller with a tractor that has worked Belen? Write down the make, model year and odometer reading from the dash, and photograph the fifth wheel and the data plate on the door. Those few details answer most of what we would otherwise ask by phone.
Albuquerque’s fuel terminals and intermodal ramp to the north
Two petroleum product terminals listed by the Energy Information Administration, ALBUQUERQUE NM and ALBUQUERQUE, sit 14.5 and 14.7 miles north of El Cerro. Tractors and straight trucks that carry fuel out of terminals like these are on our list too; keep the hazmat placard records and any tank inspection paperwork with the truck so it all travels with the sale.
Farther up the same corridor, an intermodal ramp at Albuquerque, NM shows up in Bureau of Transportation Statistics listings 18.6 miles north. A sleeper or day cab that pulls containers off that ramp does not have to come home to El Cerro first; tell us where it is sitting and we arrange the pickup there.
Equine and tomatoes
Horses, greenhouse plants and tomatoes in the valley
Around El Cerro, Valencia County counts 978 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, and that same count ranks equine first, then potted flowering plants, then tomatoes. Stock trucks, box trucks and flatbeds that carry horses, nursery stock or produce out of the valley are welcome, and on a farm they are often parked by a barn rather than on the road.
For a farm truck, tell us whether it is plated for highway use or kept on the property, and send a photo of the registration card. If the title is in a ranch or family business name, have the person who signs for that business on hand when we come.
Los Lunas MVD
Signing over the title two miles away in Los Lunas
The New Mexico Motor Vehicle Division handles truck titles through its MVD field offices, and the closest one is NM MVD Field Office - Los Lunas at 1204 MAIN ST NE ste A, Los Lunas, 87031, just 2.3 miles from El Cerro. If your title is lost, that Main Street office is where a replacement gets started.
Have the title signed by every owner it names, along with a current registration and a photo ID. When a lender is still on the title, a lien release from the lender lets the New Mexico Motor Vehicle Division put the truck in the new owner’s name.
The questions we get asked in El Cerro
- Will you pick up a dump truck that sits inside the Orona sand pit east of El Cerro?Orona lies 1.2 miles east of El Cerro on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list of sand and gravel operations, and we collect trucks from pits like it. Give us the gate contact for Orona and the hours that pit is open.
- Which Los Lunas office handles an El Cerro truck title that has gone missing?NM MVD Field Office - Los Lunas, at 1204 MAIN ST NE ste A, Los Lunas, 87031, is 2.3 miles from El Cerro and is one of the New Mexico Motor Vehicle Division’s MVD field offices where a title replacement is handled.
- My tractor stays near the Belen rail yard rather than in El Cerro; will you go down there for it?BELEN, the rail yard 10.2 miles south-west of El Cerro on the North American Rail Network, is within reach; give us the address where the tractor is parked and we arrange collection there.