Upper Pecos River outfits
Twenty-five small outfits in a mountain village
FMCSA’s carrier census shows 25 active motor carriers with a Pecos address, and the three with the most equipment each list just two power units. If you own one of those one- or two-truck operations, the truck is probably parked at your house or your yard, and that is where we come to look at it and load it.
Of those 25, the federal carrier census counts 24 as intrastate and only one as authorised to cross state lines, while 10 are private fleets hauling their own goods. A tractor or straight truck that has spent its life on New Mexico roads still sells the same way: send the VIN, a clear photo of each side, and the registration in your name.
Twenty Pecos carriers tell FMCSA’s census their drivers stay within a hundred-mile radius, against ten that send drivers beyond it. Whichever group you belong to, tell us where the truck sleeps tonight, whether it is up a ranch road or on Main Street, so the pickup is planned for that spot.
Lumber, hay and machines
Flatbeds, lowboys and log decks on the Pecos books
General freight is the most common cargo line, claimed by 15 local carriers in FMCSA’s census, and 10 list machinery and large objects. Flatbeds, lowboys and the tractors that pull them are the trucks that work produces, and we buy the tractor alone or the tractor with its trailer.
Timber is on the books too: FMCSA’s census shows eight Pecos outfits authorised for lumber and poles. If yours is a log truck or a stake-bed that has carried timber off the mountain, include photos of the bunks or the deck along with the cab and the VIN plate.
Five Pecos outfits list grain, feed and hay with FMCSA. A hay truck or a feed hauler often sits on the place where the bales are stacked, and it can stay there; give us the gate details and a phone number for whoever will be on site.
Cerrito Pelado and the gravel country toward Santa Fe
Cerrito Pelado, an industrial-mineral mine 16.5 miles north-west of Pecos, appears on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list of operations. If a dump truck or a water truck of yours has worked that site, send any site inspection sheets or service logs you kept along with the photos.
Farther out, the Mine Safety and Health Administration lists the Santa Fe River Pit, a sand and gravel operation 23.2 miles west. Gravel haulers based in Pecos may be parked nearer that pit than to home on any given week, so tell us which location to send the truck to and who holds the keys.
West of the village by 22.8 miles, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics places the NG Santa Fe - Onate Complex, a military installation. A truck parked near a secured site should be moved to a place we can reach before collection, and a note of that address saves a second trip.
Main Street errand
The MVD field office is half a mile from the river
Pecos sellers deal with the New Mexico Motor Vehicle Division for a title, and the division serves the public through MVD field offices, one of them right in the village. On the New Mexico Motor Vehicle Division’s office map, the NM MVD Field Office - Pecos stands at 92 S Main Street, Pecos, 87552, 0.6 miles from the town centre.
Take the truck’s title to that Main Street counter if it is missing or still shows a lienholder, and ask for a duplicate or a lien release before we arrive. Keep the current registration with it, since the name on both should match yours.
Cattle, mushrooms and hogs around the village
Pecos lies inside a farm economy of 776 operations across San Miguel County, as USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts them, with cattle, mushrooms and hogs at the head of the list. Livestock haulers, feed trucks and flatbeds used around those places are all trucks we collect from the farm itself.
A ranch truck that is registered to a farm partnership or a family trust needs the signature of whoever the title names. Sort out who signs before we come, and have that person reachable on the day.
Clean-truck rules and a Pecos tractor already registered
New Mexico’s Advanced Clean Trucks rule, a medium- and heavy-duty zero-emission vehicle requirement, and its Heavy-Duty Omnibus exhaust emission standards for heavy-duty engines are both in force, and they apply to new trucks and engines sold in the state, not to a used truck already registered in Pecos.
For a seller in Pecos, that means the diesel tractor or straight truck in your yard can be sold as it is today. Have the engine family label photographed with the rest of the truck, so the model year and engine are on record from the start.
The questions we get asked in Pecos
- My truck is at a pit west of Pecos, not at home. Does the truck have to come home from the Santa Fe River Pit first?The Santa Fe River Pit sits 23.2 miles west of Pecos on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list, and we collect from the place the truck is parked. Give us the address and the name of someone at the gate.
- Which Pecos office issues a duplicate title?The NM MVD Field Office - Pecos, at 92 S Main Street, is 0.6 miles from the centre of town and is one of the New Mexico Motor Vehicle Division’s MVD field offices. Ask there for a duplicate title in your name.
- I only run one truck for my own ranch. Will you take a lone truck from a ranch that hauls only its own goods?Ten of the 25 carriers in FMCSA’s census for Pecos are private fleets hauling their own goods, and a single ranch truck is welcome. Start with the VIN, the title in your name and four photos of the truck.