"Sell my semi truck in Texas" has two parts that take any effort, the title and the photos, and the rest is a conversation. Give us the year, make, model and VIN, a set of photos and the town the truck is in, and we come back with an offer. If it suits you, we settle however works: we pick the truck up where it stands, we buy it without a visit, or you deliver it to us.
Texas trucking isn't one kind of truck. As of October 2026, FMCSA's carrier census lists just under 193,000 carriers with a Texas address. Close to seventy percent of them hold in-state authority only, and one in four is a private fleet hauling its own goods. Nearly seventeen thousand Texas carriers tell FMCSA they haul oilfield equipment, more than twenty-one thousand haul logs, poles and lumber, and more than nineteen thousand haul grain, feed and hay. So the truck might be a sleeper on I-35 between Laredo and Dallas, a day cab shuttling boxes out of Bayport, a water hauler or a vacuum truck on a lease road in the Permian, a log truck out of the East Texas pines, a mixer feeding a slab in the suburbs, a dump truck out of a Hill Country quarry, or a grain truck in the Panhandle. Each one is a truck we buy.
Where Texas trucks park follows the freight. Containers cross the docks at Bayport and Barbours Cut in Houston, at Freeport and at Corpus Christi, with smaller ports at Beaumont, Port Arthur, Galveston, Port Lavaca, Brownsville and Harlingen, and vehicles roll off at the Bayport auto terminal, Freeport's Horizon terminal and Harbor Island at Beaumont. Rail ramps load at Mesquite and Wilmer on the Dallas side, Alliance and Wylie to the north, Kendleton, Pearland and Englewood around Houston, and at San Antonio, Laredo, El Paso and Donna in the Valley. Cement comes out of Midlothian, Buda, Waco, San Antonio, Odessa and Maryneal, lignite out of the Calvert, Kosse and San Miguel mines, frac sand out of Kermit, Monahans and Lamesa, and the racks at Houston, Southlake, Fort Worth, Dallas, Austin, Waco, San Antonio, El Paso, Lubbock, Abilene, Wichita Falls, Beaumont, Freeport, Edinburg and Harlingen fill the tankers. A truck parked at a rack, a ramp, a pit, a pad or a pasture gate is a truck we can deal with; say where it is and whether you'd rather we fetched it, paid for it from a distance, or you brought it to us.
The title, the lien and the tax office
Everything starts with the title. If yours is lost, Texas replaces it with a certified copy from the Department of Motor Vehicles, and the transfer itself goes through the county tax assessor-collector's office: Harris County at 1001 Preston in Houston, Dallas County at 500 Elm Street, Bexar County at 233 North Pecos La Trinidad in San Antonio, Tarrant County at 100 East Weatherford Street in Fort Worth, Travis County at 2433 Ridgepoint Drive in Austin, El Paso County at 301 Manny Martinez Senior Drive, Midland County at 2110 North A Street, Lubbock County at 916 Main Street. Start the copy, then send us the truck; the two run side by side.
If a bank still holds a lien, get the payoff moving before anything else; that's the slow part everywhere. If the title is branded salvage or rebuilt, that's fine with us as long as you tell us up front. A truck that never had a Texas title has the bonded route. And nobody in Texas will ask you for an emissions test on a diesel truck; the state exempts diesels outright.
Weight on Texas roads
Texas allows 80,000 pounds gross, 20,000 on a single axle and 34,000 on a tandem, under Transportation Code 621.101. It's the number your truck worked to, and it means nothing for the sale. A heavy-haul tractor that ran oversize on permits, a dump truck loaded to the line at a Buda quarry, a mixer that spent its life inside the loop: all the same truck to us.
What goes in the first message: year, make, model and VIN, a set of photos, a photo of the title, and the town the truck is in. Sleeper, day cab, heavy-haul tractor, dump truck, roll-off, concrete mixer, garbage truck, heavy wrecker or rotator, log truck, tanker, boom or crane truck: the message is the same for every one, and that is all it takes to get an offer.