Gravel and crushed stone down the Vado road
The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists Vado Quarry as a crushed-stone quarry about 9.6 miles south-east of University Park, with a sand and gravel operation under the same name and Vado Pit both around 12.9 miles out in that direction. If your dump truck or end-dump trailer hauled aggregate out of those sites, tell us so when you get in touch, and say whether it is still parked near the pits or back in town.
A truck sitting on a quarry lot needs someone who can let us through the gate. Give us that person’s name and number along with the VIN, and send photos of the bed, the hoist, the cab and the tires, so the whole unit is clear to us before anyone heads down to Vado.
Toro Aggregates and the Organ side of the valley
Toro Aggregates, a crushed-stone quarry on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s roll, sits roughly 15 miles north-east of University Park. Water trucks, belly dumps and tandem dumps that worked that quarry are all trucks we buy, whatever the body.
Tell us the make, model year and engine before anything else, then list what the body is: tandem, tri-axle, transfer or side dump. Those few details let us ask the right questions about your truck instead of a long list of general ones.
West of the Rio Grande
Guard installation ground eleven miles west
About 11 miles west of University Park, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics places a military installation listed as NG Las Cruces. If your truck is stored on or near a site with controlled access, say so at the start so collection can be arranged with whoever runs the gate.
You do not have to move a truck from the west side of the valley into University Park to sell it. Send us the address where it is parked and whether a tow rig can reach it, and we plan the collection around that spot.
Dairy, cotton and cattle haulers in the Mesilla Valley
Across Doña Ana County, USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 1,990 farms, and its leading products there are milk, cotton and cattle. Milk tankers, module trucks, livestock haulers and the farm tractors that pull grain and hay trailers all fit what we purchase.
Farm trucks often go years between registrations or sit with farm plates. Have whatever registration and title paperwork you hold ready, plus any service records kept in the shop, and tell us if the truck is parked out on the farm rather than in town.
Las Cruces MVD
Wyatt’s MVD counter for a lost or lien-held title
Titles in this state are handled by the New Mexico Motor Vehicle Division through its MVD field offices. The closest one the New Mexico Motor Vehicle Division lists is NM MVD Field Office - Las Cruces- Wyatt, at 308 Wyatt Dr, Las Cruces, 88001, about 2.5 miles from University Park.
If the title is lost or still shows a lender, start the replacement or the lien release at that Wyatt office before the sale. Bring your ID and the VIN, and keep the registration with you; the clerk will tell you what else New Mexico needs for a duplicate.
Jobs on the south edge
Who works around University Park
The Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts (LODES) put 4,926 jobs in University Park in 2023, in a place of 2,782 residents. Box trucks, service bodies and flatbeds working those jobs are as welcome as the heavy haulers.
New Mexico has the Advanced Clean Trucks rule and the Heavy-Duty Omnibus engine standards in force under its administrative code. A diesel tractor or dump truck already registered here is one we still buy; send the engine model and model year with your photos.
The questions we get asked in University Park
- My dump truck is still parked at a Vado gravel pit, south-east of University Park. Is that a spot you collect from?Vado Pit, listed by the Mine Safety and Health Administration about 12.9 miles south-east of University Park, is a place we can collect from. Give us the lot owner’s contact so the gate is open when we arrive.
- Which MVD office should I visit for a duplicate title from here?The New Mexico Motor Vehicle Division lists NM MVD Field Office - Las Cruces- Wyatt at 308 Wyatt Dr, Las Cruces, 88001, about 2.5 miles away. Start the duplicate there and tell us it is in progress.
- Do you take farm trucks from around the Mesilla Valley?Doña Ana County’s 1,990 farms, per USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, run milk, cotton and cattle, and the tankers and haulers that serve them are trucks we buy. Tell us which farm the truck sits on and whether it carries farm plates.