Spicewood Quarry and the Hill Country haul
Spicewood Quarry, a crushed-stone operation on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s mine list, lies 12.4 miles north-west of Bee Cave. A tandem or tri-axle dump that has spent its shifts hauling rock from that pit is exactly the kind of truck we collect. Note the body length and the hoist type when you write to us, since those two details shape the pickup.
If the dump truck is still parked at a contractor’s yard near Spicewood rather than at your house, give us that address and a name for whoever holds the gate key. We collect the dump truck at that yard; it can stay right where it is parked.
Haulers who load at Spicewood often carry a weigh-ticket book or a quarry access badge. Keep those with the title; they show where the truck has worked.
Buda and the cement kilns
Cement and aggregate south-east of town
To the south-east, Buda Quarry sits 17.5 miles out and the Texas-Lehigh Cement Plant & Quarry 18.7 miles out, both listed by the Mine Safety and Health Administration. Mixers, bulk pneumatic tankers and belly-dump trailers that ran between those gates and Austin job sites are welcome here, tractor and trailer together or apart.
The Mine Safety and Health Administration also lists the Texas Materials Hergotz Plant, a sand and gravel operation 18.6 miles east, and a dimension-stone site called Rock Quarry 18.8 miles north-east. Should your truck sit at one of those plants on the day you call, tell us which entrance it is nearest, so the driver we send goes to the right gate.
For any truck from these sites, the paperwork that matters is short: the Texas title in your name, current registration, and any service records you happen to have kept. Photos of the drum, the bed or the tank help as much as photos of the cab.
Fuel and federal sites
The Austin fuel terminal and two military posts
According to the Energy Information Administration, a petroleum product terminal listed as the Austin Plant stands 14.3 miles east of Bee Cave. Fuel tankers and the tractors that pull them from that rack are part of what we take on, and a copy of the tank’s most recent inspection sticker or certificate is a useful photo to send us.
The Bureau of Transportation Statistics places Army Futures Command 10.9 miles east and NG Camp Mabry 12 miles east. A box truck or service body that did contract runs to either post can be sold from wherever it now stands; just let us know if base access rules apply to the lot it sits in.
Builders, makers and wholesalers in Bee Cave
Census Bureau LEHD job counts put 10,236 jobs in Bee Cave for 2023, with 280 of them in construction, or 2.7 percent. Crews like those run flatbeds, utility bodies and dump trucks between job sites around Bee Cave.
The 81 construction establishments tallied by the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns are mostly small contractors. If you own a single truck in one of those outfits, the sale is between you and us; a company truck needs the title holder’s signature, so have the owner of record ready.
Smaller groups also show up in the LEHD figures: 101 manufacturing jobs and 103 in wholesale trade. Delivery straight trucks and stake beds serving those businesses fit what we buy, with or without a liftgate.
Getting a heavy truck out of Bee Cave
Of the 16 bridges in Bee Cave that the National Bridge Inventory records, none carries a posted load limit and none has clearance under 14 feet. So a loaded lowboy or tall box truck faces no posted bridge restriction on the way out of town.
That leaves the driveway, the gate and any overhead wires at your property as the details to describe for us. Tell us about a steep grade, a tight turn or a soft shoulder, if your lot has any of them.
Stock trailers and haulers
Herds, horses and corn fields around Bee Cave
Travis County holds 870 farms, and cattle, corn and equine top the list in the 2022 Census of Agriculture from USDA. Stock trailers, hay haulers and the dually pickups or medium-duty trucks that pull them belong in the same conversation as any dump truck.
A ranch truck often stays on the property between seasons, sometimes in a barn with no paved approach. Give us the ranch road, a gate code if there is one, and a phone number for whoever will be on site, and we plan the collection around that.
The questions we get asked in Bee Cave
- Can you pick up a dump truck that sits at Spicewood Quarry instead of in Bee Cave itself?Spicewood Quarry is 12.4 miles north-west of Bee Cave on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list, and we can collect from there. Name the person who signs in visitors at the quarry gate and we arrange the visit through them.
- Will a tall box truck or lowboy hit a low bridge leaving town?Bee Cave’s 16 bridges in the National Bridge Inventory include none posted for load and none under 14 feet of clearance, so the bridges are not the concern; the access at your own lot is what we will ask about.
- Do you buy the stock trailers and hay trucks used on Travis County cattle and horse places?Travis County’s 870 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture are led by cattle, corn and equine, and the trucks and trailers that serve them are ones we take. Send photos of the floor and the hitch along with the title.