Quarries a short haul from town
The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists Miller Springs Materials, a crushed-stone quarry, 3.5 miles north-east of Belton, and Nolanville Mine & Mill, another crushed-stone site, 7.1 miles west. If your dump truck or end-dump trailer is parked at one of those pits, give us the gate it sits behind and someone who can let us in, and the pickup is planned there rather than in town.
To the south-west, Adams Ranch at 8.1 miles and Apache Stone Quarry LLC at 17.4 miles both appear in Mine Safety and Health Administration records as dimension-stone quarries. Block and slab loads ride on flatbeds and step decks, so if that is your rig, photograph the deck, the tie-down points and the VIN plate before you call us.
The Mine Safety and Health Administration also lists two sand and gravel operations south-east of town: 1159 Academy at 8.2 miles and Hilliard Dozer, LP at 12.8 miles. A truck that has worked those pits may still be on site; send us the address with the title details and we will arrange the collection with whoever runs the yard.
Two Temple yards to the east
According to the North American Rail Network kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Temple has one rail yard 8.1 miles east of Belton and a second 8.7 miles north-east. Day cabs that shuttle loads to and from those yards are welcome here, and so are the sleepers that take freight on from them.
If your tractor is parked near either Temple yard, tell us the street and whether a tow truck can reach it without moving other equipment. Have the registration and the title in your name ready so the paperwork matches the truck on the day.
Two hundred carriers, four kinds of load
Belton has 203 active motor carriers on FMCSA’s carrier census, and 111 of them list general freight among the cargo they haul. Box trucks, straight trucks and dry-van tractors from that general-freight work all fit what we purchase; a clear photo of the odometer and the door sticker answers our first questions.
Machinery and large objects are listed by 39 Belton carriers in FMCSA’s census, lumber, logs and poles by 31, and metal sheets, coils and rolls by 30. Lowboys, flatbeds and coil-rated trailers belong to that kind of hauling, and we buy the tractor, the trailer or both together.
Most of the local operators keep their trucks inside Texas: FMCSA counts 165 intrastate carriers against 37 interstate ones, with 69 running private fleets. The same census logs 360 drivers working within 100 miles and 277 who go farther out, so your truck may be in Belton or several counties away when you sell it, and either location works for us.
Thirty power units or one tractor
In FMCSA’s registrations, the three biggest fleets based in Belton run 30, 29 and 27 power units. If you are selling several units at once, list each VIN with its title status and the lot where it is parked, and we will plan one collection around all of them.
New operators keep arriving too, with 17 Belton carriers first registered in 2025 and 11 in 2024 under FMCSA’s carrier census. FMCSA’s census puts the median at 30,000 miles per truck among the 44 local carriers that report mileage; owner-operators with one tractor are a regular part of the work we do.
Bridges and the trucks on them
Of the 67 Belton-area bridges in the National Bridge Inventory, three carry posted load limits and just one leaves under 14 feet overhead. That low one, per the National Bridge Inventory, carries the southbound interstate main lanes over Nolan Creek and Veterans Way at 13 ft 8 in, so tell us if your truck is parked on a lot reached only from under it and we will route around.
Roadside records also give a picture of the local fleet: FMCSA inspections between September 2024 and August 2026 covered 146 trucks tied to Belton, with a median model year of 2016 and half of them ten or more years old. Whatever the model year, have the title, registration and any service records you keep in one folder.
Where Belton works, from job sites to wheat fields
Of the 13,295 jobs counted in Belton for 2023 by the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts, construction holds 1,126, manufacturing 686, transportation and warehousing 496 and wholesale trade 321. County Business Patterns from the Census Bureau adds 125 construction establishments; if your dump truck, water truck or equipment hauler is on a job site, give us the site address and a contact.
Across Bell County, USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture lists 2,330 farms, with corn, cattle and wheat at the top. Grain trucks, cattle haulers and farm flatbeds often sit on the farm between seasons, so give us the property address and a time someone will be there to meet the tow.
The questions we get asked in Belton
- Our tandem dump has sat inside the Miller Springs Materials gate since the last job ended. Will you pick it up from the quarry gate?Miller Springs Materials sits 3.5 miles north-east of town on Mine Safety and Health Administration listings, and a truck parked at that pit or any other nearby quarry is collected where it stands. Send us the gate details and a contact on site.
- Is the low interstate bridge over Nolan Creek a problem for picking up my truck?The National Bridge Inventory puts the southbound interstate crossing over Nolan Creek and Veterans Way at 13 ft 8 in of clearance, and we plan the tow route around it. Tell us the street where the truck is parked.
- I run trucks for a farm in Bell County. Is a grain truck or cattle hauler something you purchase?Bell County has 2,330 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, led by corn, cattle and wheat, and grain trucks and cattle haulers from them are trucks we buy. Have the title and registration ready, along with a few photos.