Salt mine, gravel pits
Salt, potash country and the pits along the river
New Mexico Salt & Minerals LLC, an industrial-mineral mine listed by the Mine Safety and Health Administration, lies 3.5 miles east of Loving. We pick up at the yard or driveway where the truck sits, whether that is next to the mine road or across town. Give us the street address or the gate it sits behind, plus a photo of the VIN plate, when you first get in touch.
Whiskey Pit, a crushed-stone quarry the Mine Safety and Health Administration places 6.3 miles north-west, and the CARLSBAD LAKE PLANT mine, 10.3 miles north-east by the same federal record, frame Loving on two sides. Dump trucks and end-dump tractors that cycle between quarry and job site are the kind we buy here. Photograph the body, the cab and the tires in daylight so the pictures show what the truck actually is.
Further out, the Mine Safety and Health Administration lists Carlsbad Airport Pit 10.5 miles west, with Boyd Pit and Cactus Pit, both sand and gravel operations, at 10.9 and 11.8 miles north-west. If your truck has been working one of those pits and is still sitting on site, tell us whether a lowboy or a tow truck can get in, and we will plan the pickup around that access.
Oil field paychecks
Oil and gas work on the town’s payroll
Of the 704 jobs the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts (LODES) placed in Loving for 2023, 452, or 64.2 percent, were in mining, quarrying and oil and gas extraction. Trucks tied to that work include water haulers, flatbeds carrying pipe and tractors moving equipment between leases. Whatever the truck carried, have the title and current registration in hand before we talk.
The construction count is small: County Business Patterns from the Census Bureau records five construction establishments here. A single-truck contractor shutting down a dump or a service body can sell to us just as a larger outfit would; the steps are the same, starting with the VIN, the title and a set of photos.
Fifty-three active carriers call this town home in FMCSA’s carrier census: 33 hold interstate authority, 20 stay inside the state, and 20 haul only their own goods. If yours hauls its own product, keep your USDOT number handy; it helps us match the truck to its record.
General freight is the cargo most often listed, by 36 of those carriers in the FMCSA census, followed by grain, feed and hay at 17, machinery and large objects at 14 and farm supplies at 12. Day cabs, sleepers, hay haulers and lowboy rigs all fit that mix. Tell us which cargo yours hauled and what trailer, if any, is part of the sale.
Twenty-two Loving carriers gave FMCSA a mileage figure, and the median among their trucks came to 27,539 miles a year. FMCSA lists Loving’s top three fleets at 25, 14 and 11 power units apiece. Whether you are selling one tractor or a handful from a fleet that size, send a list of VINs and we will work through them one at a time.
Thirty trucks stopped, a 2011 midpoint
FMCSA roadside inspection records for trucks based here, covering 30 trucks inspected between August 2024 and August 2026, put the median model year at 2011. Of the 30 Loving trucks in those FMCSA roadside inspection records, 80 percent carried a model year a decade or more back. We buy trucks of every model year, so the year is simply a line on the form you fill in.
Service records, if you kept them, travel well with an older tractor’s title. Put the most recent inspection report, the registration and any maintenance log in one folder and photograph the odometer, so every document matches the truck we arrive to collect.
Milk tankers and cattle pots off Pecos valley farms
Around Loving, Eddy County counted 346 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, and milk, cattle and cotton led the list of products sold. Milk tankers, cattle pots and the tractors that pull module trailers at ginning time are all trucks we take. If the truck is parked at a dairy or a farm lot, tell us which gate to use.
Farm-plated trucks still need a clean title in the seller’s name before they can change hands. Check that the name on the title matches the registration, and if a lender is still shown on it, have the lien release ready.
Cedar Street
The MVD office a block from town centre
The New Mexico Motor Vehicle Division runs NM MVD Field Office - Loving at 415 W Cedar St, Loving, 88256, about 0.1 miles from the middle of town, one of the agency’s MVD field offices. A missing title is replaced there, and that duplicate is what we need to complete the sale. The West Cedar clerk will ask for your photo ID along with the seventeen-character VIN off the truck.
New Mexico’s published rules list the Advanced Clean Trucks rule and the Heavy-Duty Omnibus engine standard as in force for medium- and heavy-duty vehicles. For a used diesel truck in Loving, the sale still comes down to the title, the registration and a clear set of photos.
LA HUERTA spur
LA HUERTA yard and the trailer loads around it
LA HUERTA, a rail yard the North American Rail Network (Federal Railroad Administration and Bureau of Transportation Statistics) places 12.4 miles north-west of Loving, sits on the same side of town as the gravel pits. Tractors that shuttle loads between the yard and local sites are part of the general freight mix the FMCSA census records here.
If your truck is parked near the yard rather than at home in Loving, give us both addresses and say where the keys and paperwork are kept. Our crew meets the truck at whichever of those addresses it sits.
The questions we get asked in Loving
- Is there an MVD office in Loving for a replacement title?NM MVD Field Office - Loving, at 415 W Cedar St, is about 0.1 miles from the centre of town and is run by the New Mexico Motor Vehicle Division. Apply for the duplicate title there before the sale.
- Will you collect a truck sitting at a pit outside Loving?Pits such as Whiskey Pit, 6.3 miles north-west on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list, are the kind of site we collect from. Tell us the pit name and how a recovery truck reaches it.
- Do you take farm trucks from Eddy County dairies and cattle operations?Milk, cattle and cotton topped USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture for Eddy County’s 346 farms, and the tankers, cattle pots and tractors those farms use are trucks we buy, provided the title is in your name.
- My truck is a 2011 or older; can I still sell it?A 2011 median model year shows up in FMCSA roadside inspection records for Loving-based trucks, and we buy across every model year. Start with the VIN and a few photos of the cab and frame, then the title.