Pit roads west
Cordova Pit lies 5.8 miles west of Meadow Lake and Orona 6.1 miles west, both recorded by the Mine Safety and Health Administration as sand and gravel operations. A tandem dump or a belly-dump tractor that shuttles between those pits and job sites is the kind of truck we collect, and it can stay parked near the pit road while you arrange the sale.
Further out, Mountain States Crusher GCP 3164, a crushed-stone quarry, is 17.5 miles west according to the Mine Safety and Health Administration. If your truck hauled rock from that crusher, tell us which body it carries, end dump, side dump or flatbed, and send photos of the bed, the hoist and the cab so the pictures match what you describe.
Have the title and current registration in your name before we arrive. If the title went missing somewhere between the pit and the yard, ask the state’s title agency for a replacement and start that request first.
Tanker terminals
Fuel terminals toward Albuquerque
Two petroleum product terminals listed by the Energy Information Administration sit north-west of Meadow Lake, one at 13.6 miles and one at 14.1 miles, both under Albuquerque names. Tractors that pull fuel tankers out of those terminals are on our list, and so are the tank trailers themselves if you are letting both go.
When a fuel tractor goes up for sale, keep its loading-rack paperwork and any tank inspection records together in the cab. Those papers tell us where the rig has been working, and the VIN plus the odometer reading answers most of our remaining questions.
Rail and base traffic
Trucks working toward Belen and the Kirtland gates
Down toward Belen, 15.7 miles south-west, sits a rail yard that the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics record in their North American Rail Network. A day cab that has moved freight to and from that yard can be picked up wherever it sits between runs, so give us the street address and the name of someone who can unlock the gate.
Kirtland Air Force Base is 14.3 miles north-east of town on the Bureau of Transportation Statistics list of military installations. If your truck is parked on a lot near the base where access is controlled, tell us at the start so collection can be set up with whoever runs that gate.
Equine and produce
Horse farms, nurseries and tomato growers
USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 978 farms in Valencia County, and it lists equine, potted flowering plants and tomatoes among the county’s leading items. Stock trailers’ tow rigs, box trucks hauling potted plants and produce flatbeds all come out of that mix, and any of them can be sold from the farm where it is parked.
Have the registration card ready to hand over along with the title, whichever plates the farm truck carries. Along with those, send photos of the cargo box or bed, the cab interior and the VIN plate.
Clean truck standards adopted in Santa Fe
The New Mexico Administrative Code lists the Advanced Clean Trucks requirement for medium- and heavy-duty zero-emission vehicles as in force, alongside the Heavy-Duty Omnibus exhaust standards for heavy-duty engines.
When you sell a diesel truck here, keep the engine family label legible and photograph it with the rest of the truck, since it identifies the engine and the emissions standard it was certified to.
The questions we get asked in Meadow Lake
- Can a dump truck sitting at the Cordova sand and gravel site be collected without hauling it home first?Cordova Pit is 5.8 miles west of Meadow Lake by the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s location for it, and we collect the truck from there. Give us the name of whoever holds the pit gate key, and the collection gets scheduled with that person.
- Do you buy farm trucks from Valencia County horse and tomato operations?Valencia County’s 978 farms, counted in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, run horses, potted flowering plants and tomatoes, and the trucks that serve them are ones we buy. Send the VIN, photos and the registration card to begin.