Zavala County
The register says caliche and the row says crushed stone
The operation attached here is the Banrich Quarry, twenty-one people, under Anderson Columbia Co. In the state aggregate register it appears at 0.02 miles from the node — effectively at the gate, which is rarer in this data than you would expect.
That registration is numbered AP0003144, carries the same site name, covers 83 acres, and runs to an expiry of 5 November 2026. Registration is per site and renewed every year.
The material on the register is caliche. No limestone, no granite. The row itself is typed as crushed stone, so the two records describe the same ground in two different trades, and whether caliche belongs in that class at all is a boundary question the research declined to settle.
So the town on the filing is not the town at the gate
That is not the only place the paperwork and the ground pull apart here.
The row attaches to this town by a nearest-centroid fallback at 15.13 miles, which is a long way for an attachment. The federal mine record gives its own nearest town as Dilley, not this one.
Meanwhile the closest other recorded operation is the Divot Quarry over at Pearsall, 10.3 miles from the node — nearer to the pit than the town the pit is filed under. Past that it is 26.8 miles to a quarry at Uvalde.
None of which changes what a truck does out here. It runs county roads and farm-to-market road between a pit and a job, on a recorded working radius of 35 miles.
Texas weight law
One ceiling, and a permit list that skips stone
Caliche or crushed stone, it loads under the same statutory ceiling.
Texas sets gross weight at 80,000 lb, a single axle at 20,000 lb and a tandem at 34,000 lb — the plain federal figures, with no commodity variance of the kind Georgia and Kentucky grant.
What Texas grants instead is permits, and each is written for a named industry: ready-mixed concrete, fluid milk, timber, and super heavy single-trip. Nothing on that list covers aggregate, stone, sand or quarry products — and caliche is not named either — so this pit’s trucks fall back to the general permit.
That general permit adds ten per cent on the axle and five per cent on gross, with registration to 80,000 lb, a fifteen thousand dollar bond, and liability for actual damage to load-restricted roads and bridges. On a load-zoned road the permitted weight is ten per cent less than the maximum, so those two percentages run against each other and must not be added.
Tex. Transp. Code § 621.101; Chapter 623 permits. Information, not legal advice.
Texas paperwork
We need a title — unless it never had one
Beyond the weight rules, the paperwork comes down to one sentence.
Everything after that sentence is a fix rather than a category. A lost title has a counter replacement. Where none exists there is a bonded route. Both are ordinary and neither stops a sale.
The Texas salvage line runs further in the seller’s favour than any other state on file. A truck is branded salvage only where the cost of repairs exceeds its actual cash value immediately before the damage — effectively the whole value, with no percentage in the test. It is a two-part test as well: there must be damage to, or a missing, major component part, and the statute enumerates thirteen.
Repainting and sales tax come out of the repair figure first, which no other state on file does. On an older truck with cosmetic damage that is the difference between a brand and no brand.
Emissions inspection is not a step for a diesel truck in Texas. The state exempts diesel vehicles outright.
Tex. Transp. Code § 501.091; TCEQ vehicle emissions programme. Information, not legal advice, and only as current as the date the rule file was last verified.
What we buy here
All of that is iron we buy. Dump trucks and aggregate haulers off the Banrich ground, belly dumps and flatbeds for the longer moves, day cabs and road tractors for anything leaving the county.
Then the rest of it: lowboys, rollbacks, box trucks, straight trucks, service bodies, and the work trucks and pickups that go with a crew.
Twenty-one people on 83 acres, 15.13 miles from the town it is filed under, is a working pit — and a working pit turns equipment over.
Whatever you drive, the offer doesn’t change. We buy all of them.
We buy complete trucks. If the engine, transmission, doors, rear ends, drive shafts, wheels or anything under the hood have been removed, we can’t buy it. Small things — a missing bumper — are fine.
Straight answers
The questions we get asked in Batesville
- Does it have to run?No. It does have to be complete — if the engine, transmission, doors, rear ends, drive shafts, wheels or anything under the hood have been removed, we can’t buy it. Rust is not a disqualifier.
- It hauled caliche rather than rock. Does that matter?Not to us. The register and the row disagree about what the Banrich Quarry works, and neither reading changes what we do with the truck.
- The pit is closer to Pearsall than to here.It is — 15.13 miles out, attached by fallback. We buy across Zavala County and the counties either side of it on the same terms.
- What about the title?We need one unless the truck is old enough that it never had one. Lost titles have a counter replacement; where none exists there’s a bonded route.
- Do you have to come out to look at it?Not necessarily. We can buy it remotely and arrange the tow, come to you and drive it away, come and tow it, or you can drive it to us. Whichever suits the truck and your week.
Why people call
Beyond a contract ending, the reasons are personal ones. Retiring. A medical that went the wrong way. A truck bought for one job that outlived it.
Yards around the Banrich Quarry and across Zavala County usually have one waiting.
Most of those aren’t happy reasons, and we don’t treat them like they are. Somebody wants a straight answer and the truck gone by the end of the week. That’s what we’re here for.