Sell your semi truck for cash in Austin the easy and convenient way

FMCSA’s carrier census lists 4,297 active carriers based in Austin, and 2,579 of them register general freight as a cargo type. If yours is a box truck, a day cab or a sleeper that moved mixed loads around town, have the title and current registration in one folder before you call, and we can start with the VIN.

Of those Austin carriers, 3,317 run intrastate only and 969 cross state lines, according to the same FMCSA census, which also counts 986 private fleets hauling their own goods. A tractor that never left Texas and one that crossed into other states are handled the same way; tell us which plates and authority it carried so the paperwork lines up.

New registrations in Austin reached 427 in 2025, up from 368 in 2024, by FMCSA’s carrier census count. If you started an operation recently and are now selling the truck you started it with, a bill of sale from your own purchase and the title in your name are the two documents to locate first.

Household goods appear on 442 Austin carrier registrations in FMCSA’s census, so moving vans and straight trucks with lift gates are part of the local picture. Send daylight photos of the box interior, the lift gate and the cab with your first message.

The FMCSA carrier census shows 420 Austin carriers registered for machinery and large objects and 346 for metal sheets, coils and rolls. Lowboys, flatbeds and step decks behind those tractors can be sold together with the tractor or on their own; list each trailer’s VIN separately so the titles match.

Three Austin fleets on the FMCSA census operate 1,212, 241 and 221 power units, and dozens of smaller outfits sit beneath them. Whether you are retiring one tractor or several from a yard, a list of unit numbers, VINs and where each one is parked lets us plan the collection as one trip.

The Energy Information Administration lists a petroleum product terminal called Austin Plant about 5.5 miles north of the city and the Flint Hills Resources Austin terminal about 7.7 miles east. Tank trucks and fuel tractors that load at those racks often stay parked near them between runs; give us the yard address and a contact who can open the gate.

Sand and gravel come out of the Texas Materials Hergotz Plant, 6.9 miles south-east, and Garfield Sand & Gravel, 12.5 miles south-east, both on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s mine list. Dump trucks and end dumps that work those pits can be collected right at the site if the operator allows it, so ask them before you contact us.

Further out, the Mine Safety and Health Administration records Buda Quarry, a crushed-stone operation 17 miles south-west, and a dimension-stone site named Rock Quarry 16.9 miles north. A quarry truck is often registered to a different address than where it sits; tell us both so the title and the pickup location are not confused.

Construction accounts for 39,079 jobs in Austin in 2023 under the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts, and County Business Patterns lists 2,287 construction establishments in the area. Mixers, dump trucks and flatbed service trucks from those contractors are welcome; send any annual inspection reports you kept along with the photos.

Manufacturing holds 46,342 jobs and wholesale trade 31,616 in the Census Bureau’s LEHD figures for 2023, against 14,010 in transportation and warehousing. If your straight truck or tractor made deliveries for a plant or a distributor, note whether it was titled to you or to the business, and have the person named on the title ready to sign.

Out of 855,230 Austin jobs in 2023, the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts put 1,362 in mining, quarrying and oil and gas extraction. Trucks tied to that work, from water haulers to aggregate dumps, sell the same way as any other: title, registration and a clear set of photos.

FMCSA’s carrier census counts 8,719 drivers for Austin carriers working within 100 miles and 7,004 going beyond that. For a truck still out on a long run, tell us where it will be parked when it finishes; we collect it there instead of waiting for it to come home.

Among 741 Austin carriers reporting mileage to FMCSA, the median is 30,000 miles a truck each year. Have the odometer reading and VIN together when you reach out; those two lines open every conversation.

Roadside inspections between August 2024 and August 2026 covered 3,296 trucks tied to Austin, and FMCSA’s inspection records give a median model year of 2018, with 38.1% ten or more years old. Inspection reports from those stops, if you kept them, belong in the folder with the title.

Of 1,081 bridges the National Bridge Inventory lists in the Austin area, 5 carry a posted load limit and 7 clear less than 14 feet. The National Bridge Inventory gives Escarpment Blvd over the Draw of Slaughter Creek the lowest clearance, 2ft 11in; if your truck sits off a road like that, tell us the route in so the collection rig avoids it.

USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 870 farms in Travis County, with cattle, corn and horses as the leading products. Livestock haulers, grain trucks and ranch flatbeds parked on rural Travis County land can be picked up there; a gate code and a phone number for whoever is on site are enough.

Camp Mabry sits 1.5 miles north of downtown and Army Futures Command 2.1 miles south-west, both listed by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics as military installations. If you are being reassigned and need to sell a truck before you leave Austin, the title in your name and a valid ID are what we need, and the truck can stay where it is parked.

• My dump truck is parked at a gravel pit south-east of Austin, so does it need hauling into town first?It can stay at the pit. The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists the Hergotz plant 6.9 miles and Garfield Sand & Gravel 12.5 miles south-east of the city, and we collect from sites like those once the operator agrees.
• Where do I turn if the title to my Austin truck is lost?Apply for a replacement through the state’s title agency in Texas before the sale; tell us when you have applied and we can line up the rest of the paperwork around it.
• Can I sell a fuel tractor that loads at the Flint Hills Resources terminal?That tractor qualifies. The Energy Information Administration places the terminal about 7.7 miles east of Austin; send photos, the VIN and the yard address and we arrange the pickup there.