Terminal traffic
A fuel terminal six miles up the road
The Energy Information Administration lists a petroleum product terminal named Big Sandy about 6.8 miles north-east of town. If your tractor has pulled fuel trailers in and out of that gate, tell us which trailer it ran with and whether the trailer is part of the sale or stays behind.
A tanker that served the terminal is often still parked near it. Give us the street or yard where the truck sits and a phone number for whoever holds the keys, and we collect it from that spot rather than asking you to move it into Big Sandy.
Pit lots and yards
Pits to the north-west, rail yards toward Tyler and Longview
North Pit and Plant, a sand and gravel operation on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list, lies 9.3 miles north-west, and A & T Sand and Gravel is 21.9 miles south-east. Dump trucks and end-dump tractors from those pits can be sold from the pit lot itself; send photos of the bed, the hoist and the cab together so we see the whole unit.
Two rail yards appear on the North American Rail Network kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics: Tyler, 18.7 miles south-west, and Longview Yard on the Union Pacific, 23 miles east. A day cab that shuttles freight to either yard can be picked up wherever its shift ends, as long as someone can let us onto the property.
Local filings
Log, hay and freight haulers registered in Big Sandy
Of the 31 Big Sandy carriers active in FMCSA’s carrier census, 22 keep their loads inside Texas and 9 hold interstate authority. Another way the census sorts them: eleven haul only their owner’s goods as private fleets. If your truck is registered to a business rather than to you, have the registration in that business name ready.
General freight is the most common cargo on those filings, listed by 17 carriers, followed by logs, poles, beams and lumber at 11, farm supplies at 10 and grain, feed and hay at 9, according to the same FMCSA census. A log truck with its bunks and stakes, or a flatbed set up for hay, should be described with that equipment attached so we know exactly what is being collected.
On FMCSA’s census, one Big Sandy operation runs 101 power units with 45 drivers, while the next two each run three. FMCSA also logged two new carriers here in 2024 and two more in 2025. Whether you run one truck or a yard full, every tractor gets its own VIN and title check.
Big Sandy carriers had 57 trucks checked at the roadside from October 2024 to August 2026, and FMCSA roadside inspection records give those tractors a median model year of 2019, with 38.6 percent dating back a decade or more. Whatever year yours is, start with the VIN and the odometer reading from the dash.
For the six carriers that reported mileage, FMCSA’s census puts the median at 25,524 miles per truck per year. The same FMCSA filings split drivers by radius, 43 working close to home and 41 ranging farther out. A truck may be parked at a customer’s site away from Big Sandy when you call; just tell us where.
Dairy tankers and cattle rigs from Big Sandy’s farm roads
Around Big Sandy, USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 1,373 farms in Upshur County, and cattle, milk and equine operations top the list. Cattle haulers, milk tankers and horse-trailer tractors from those places are trucks we buy, and many of them sit in a barn lot rather than a truck yard.
If the truck is titled to a ranch or dairy, have the person named on that title ready to sign. Take pictures outside in daylight that show the cab, the frame and the tires, and send them with the address of the farm.
The Texas Department of Motor Vehicles handles titles through county tax assessor-collector offices, and for Big Sandy that is the Upshur County Tax Office at 215 N Titus St in Gilmer, 14 miles from town. A missing title can be replaced there before the sale, and the truck can stay where it is while you sort it out.
Bring the registration and any service or inspection records you keep. The Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts show 636 jobs in Big Sandy for 2023, 55 of them, or 8.6 percent, in transportation and warehousing, and County Business Patterns lists 14 construction establishments; if your truck belongs to one of those employers, ask the company office for its records.
The questions we get asked in Big Sandy
- Will you pick up an end-dump sitting at North Pit and Plant outside Big Sandy?North Pit and Plant is 9.3 miles north-west of town on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list, and we collect from the pit lot. Send the name of whoever runs the pit gate and which corner of the lot holds the dump.