Cattle, sheep, horses
Livestock trucks on McKinley County farms
McKinley County holds 1,664 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, and cattle head the county’s list ahead of sheep and equine. A cattle hauler, a stock trailer tractor or a flatbed that carries round bales is the kind of truck we expect to collect around Zuni Pueblo. Tell us what it pulled and what it is coupled to now, so we know whether a trailer comes along with the tractor.
Sheep rank second on that same USDA census list for the county, with horses third. Smaller straight trucks with stake beds often move those animals between pens and grazing ground. If yours has a removable rack or gates, photograph the bed both with them fitted and without, and mention any racks stored apart from the truck.
Gate to gate
Collecting a truck from a ranch or yard
With 1,664 farms on the county roll in the 2022 agriculture census from USDA, many trucks near Zuni Pueblo sit at a ranch gate, a corral or a hay barn rather than in town. We come to the truck wherever it is parked. Send the ranch address or a pin on a map, plus a note about any locked gate or cattle guard our driver needs to cross.
A truck on grazing ground can be a long way off the paved road. Tell us the last stretch of the route: dirt, gravel or a two-track. Name someone who can meet the driver if you will be away, and leave the keys with that person.
Town trucks
Service and delivery trucks inside the pueblo
For 2023, Zuni Pueblo had 463 jobs on the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts. A town of that size is served by a handful of service, delivery and utility trucks, often owned by one person or a small outfit. If yours did that local work, list what was mounted on it (a lift gate, a tool box, a crane) so we can see it in your photos.
Those 463 positions, as counted in LEHD for 2023, sit inside a county where farms outnumber them by several to one on USDA’s figures. Plenty of sellers here hold a farm truck and a work truck together. Send both at once and we can arrange one visit to collect them.
Engine labels
Clean truck and Omnibus rules in force at Zuni Pueblo
New Mexico’s Advanced Clean Trucks rule is listed as in force in the New Mexico Administrative Code. It covers medium- and heavy-duty zero-emission vehicle requirements, reporting and compliance. Selling a diesel tractor or box truck that is already on the road here is still open to you; give us the engine make and model year from the door sticker so we can match it to the right standard.
The Heavy-Duty Omnibus rule, which sets exhaust emission standards for heavy-duty engines, is also marked in force in the state’s administrative code. Keep the emission label on the engine readable and photograph it. That label tells us which standard the engine was certified to.
What to have ready before we call
Ranch trucks in a county with 1,664 farms on USDA’s census often change hands within a family. Make sure the name on the New Mexico title matches the person selling, or have the signed papers that show how it passed to you. If the title has gone missing, ask the state’s title agency for a duplicate, and start that request before we schedule a pickup.
Along with the title, gather the registration, any service records kept in the barn office, and a set of photos: cab, frame, tires and the bed or fifth wheel. Add the VIN and the odometer reading in your first message. With those in hand, our questions are few and specific to your truck.
The questions we get asked in Zuni Pueblo
- My stock truck is out on grazing ground past Zuni Pueblo. Do you need it brought to the road?Grazing land is spread across McKinley County’s 1,664 farms in USDA’s 2022 census, and we collect from the ranch itself. Give us directions to the gate and tell us what the last stretch of road is like.
- Can I still sell my Zuni Pueblo diesel with the Advanced Clean Trucks rule in force?New Mexico’s administrative code lists the Advanced Clean Trucks rule as in force; it sets zero-emission requirements, reporting and compliance for medium- and heavy-duty vehicles. Send us the engine label photo so we know which standard it was built to.
- I have a farm truck and a delivery truck. Can both go in one pickup?Around Zuni Pueblo, where LEHD counts 463 jobs for 2023 and USDA counts 1,664 farms in the county, many owners keep both kinds. List each VIN in one message and we will plan a single visit.