Duval County
A two-person limestone pit, named for a town in the next county
The operation filed here is Kingsville Materials Corp, working crushed and broken limestone with two people, attached by its own recorded city rather than by a fallback.
The name points somewhere else. The node list records a Kingsville row in Kleberg County, 32.7 miles from this pit, so the operator carries the name of a town two counties over while the ground sits here.
The registration is close but not at the gate. No active state aggregate registration lies within a mile of the node, and the nearest is 2.2 miles away — which can mean a lapsed registration, a point recorded off the mark, an inaccurate coordinate, or an operation outside the definition. The research did not separate them.
So the county carries more than this one pit, and not all of it is stone
Those two people are not the whole picture in Duval County, and the rest of it matters if you are selling something heavier.
The Realitos Pit works construction sand and gravel with eighteen people and sits 18.6 miles from here — a different trade and a payroll nine times the size. The Hoffman quarry at San Diego is 9.8 miles off and is the closer neighbour, also crushed limestone, also two people.
So there are two small limestone pits inside ten miles of each other and one substantially larger sand and gravel operation up the road, all inside a recorded 35 mile radius.
That mix matters more than the headcounts. Small pits run older trucks longer, and a sand and gravel operation of that size turns equipment over on a schedule.
Texas weight law
One ceiling, and a permit list that skips stone
Limestone or sand and gravel, both load under one 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, so every pit in this county falls 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 limestone, belly dumps and end dumps off the sand and gravel work, 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.
A two-person pit and an eighteen-person pit inside 18.6 miles of each other run very different fleets, and the Hoffman quarry 9.8 miles the other way runs a third. We buy off all of them.
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 Benavides
- 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 has been sitting at a small pit for years.That is the normal shape out here. Age on its own is not a problem — completeness is the thing that matters.
- Will you come out to Duval County?Often nobody needs to. Remote purchase with the tow arranged is quick at this distance, and coming out to drive it away or tow it stays available.
- 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.
- The pit is not registered where the state thinks it is.The nearest registration is 2.2 miles from the node, and nobody established why. It is a question about the site, not about your truck.
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 Realitos Pit and across Duval 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.