Up the road north-west
Lowdermilk gravel and the dump trucks it keeps busy
Lowdermilk, a sand and gravel operation the Mine Safety and Health Administration lists 9.6 miles north-west of Nambe, is the closest working pit to town. Dump trucks, end dumps and belly dumps that load there tend to be parked at a yard or a driveway between runs, so give us that address rather than the pit gate when you get in touch.
Gravel haulers here often run a tractor and a trailer as a pair. If you are selling both, send the VIN for the tractor and the trailer’s serial plate in the same message, with a photo of each from all four corners, and we can plan one trip up the valley for the two of them.
Pits below the valley
Cerrito Pelado, the Santa Fe River Pit and the haul between them
Heading south, Cerrito Pelado, an industrial-mineral mine, sits 14.7 miles from Nambe on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list, and the same federal agency places the Santa Fe River Pit, another sand and gravel site, 19 miles to the south-west. A truck that has hauled out of either one can stay parked where it is, and we collect it there.
Mine and pit work leaves a paper trail of its own, from scale tickets to site safety sign-offs. Keep whatever you have of that with the title, registration and any service invoices; it shows us what the truck has been doing in a way a photo of the cab cannot.
Ranch and feed hauling
Nambe ranch rigs: cattle, corn and goat hauling
Across Santa Fe County, USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 591 farms, and it lists cattle, corn and goats as the leading products there. Livestock trailers, flatbeds carrying hay and grain trucks are the rigs that work that ground, and plenty of them spend the off-season behind a barn rather than in a shop lot.
If your truck is on a ranch outside Nambe, tell us whether a tractor-trailer can get in on the access road or whether a gate, a cattle guard or a soft track needs a heads-up. Send photos of the odometer, the VIN plate and the tires with that note.
Espanola’s MVD field office, ten miles off
Titles in this state come from the New Mexico Motor Vehicle Division, and its NM MVD Field Office - Espanola, at 1121 Santa Clara Peak Rd, Espanola, 87532, is the MVD field office the agency lists 10.4 miles from Nambe. That is where a Nambe owner goes to apply for a duplicate if the original title has gone missing.
Bring your registration and a photo ID to the Espanola counter, and if a lender was ever on the title, the lien release as well. Once the duplicate is in hand, send us a clear photo of the front and back so the name on it can be matched to yours before pickup.
Clean-truck regulations New Mexico has adopted
New Mexico has its Advanced Clean Trucks rule, a medium- and heavy-duty zero-emission vehicle requirement, in force alongside the Heavy-Duty Omnibus exhaust emission standards for heavy-duty engines. Both deal with new trucks and engines rather than ones already titled and working around Nambe.
Nambe owners selling a diesel already on the road can leave those rules aside. What helps us is the engine make and model from the valve cover tag or the build sheet, so the truck is described accurately from the start.
Onate Complex and trucks parked down the corridor
The Bureau of Transportation Statistics lists NG Santa Fe - Onate Complex TS, a military installation, 23.8 miles south of Nambe. Owners whose trucks are kept down that way, closer to Santa Fe than to the valley, can sell from that spot without bringing anything back north.
Give us the exact address and a note on the best time to reach the truck. A key, a contact on site and a clear path out of the lot are what make the collection itself go smoothly.
The questions we get asked in Nambe
- My dump truck hauls out of a pit north-west of Nambe. Do you collect it from where it is parked?Lowdermilk, which the Mine Safety and Health Administration lists 9.6 miles north-west of Nambe, is the kind of site we collect near. Tell us where the truck is parked between loads and that is where we meet it.
- Do you take livestock and hay trucks from ranches here?Santa Fe County’s 591 farms, counted by USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, are led by cattle, corn and goats, and the trucks and trailers that serve them are on our list. Describe the access road so we bring the right rig.