Quarry trucks south-west and west of Blum
Blum Quarry, a dimension-stone operation on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s mine list, lies 2.8 miles south-west of town, and Canfield Materials runs a crushed-stone quarry 3.7 miles west. A dump truck or tractor that shuttles cut block or crushed rock out of those two sites is often parked at the pit or at a shop just outside Blum when an owner decides to sell, and we collect it from wherever it stands.
Kimball Bend Plant 1202, a sand and gravel operation the Mine Safety and Health Administration lists 6.9 miles west, is the nearest of a western run of pits that the same Mine Safety and Health Administration records extend to Woodley Sand Pit at 16.8 miles and the Mitchell Bend stone quarry at 19.4 miles. If your end dump or belly dump hauls from that western run of pits, tell us which site it loads at and send a few photos of the bed, the frame and the cab so we know what we are coming to see.
A tractor that drays loads between that yard and the farms and pits around town can be picked up at the yard lot, at a home driveway or at the shop where it is kept.
Carry Transit, a liquid bulk terminal the Bureau of Transportation Statistics lists 18.7 miles north, is the nearest tank-trailer stop on the way up. Owners of a tractor that pulls tankers to and from that terminal should have the registration and any inspection sheets together before we arrive, along with the VIN, which starts every conversation we have about a truck.
FMCSA’s carrier census shows 17 active carriers based in Blum, and the three biggest each run 2 power units with between 2 and 4 drivers. Keep the truck’s paperwork folder handy when you call, with the title and registration on top.
General freight is the cargo 12 of those 17 carriers report to the federal carrier census, with farm supplies and grain, feed and hay each carried by a handful and dry bulk commodities by 4. A single-axle grain truck, a day cab with a hopper bottom and a flatbed tractor all fit what we buy here, and each one only needs a title in the seller’s name and a set of clear photos to get started.
Twelve of Blum’s carriers are intrastate only and 5 cross state lines, while 6 operate as private fleets hauling their own goods, according to FMCSA’s census figures. For a private-fleet truck owned by a farm or a contractor, have the business name that appears on the title ready, since that is whose signature releases it.
New registrations have been steady but small, with one carrier added in 2024 and another in 2025 in FMCSA’s census. Whether your truck belongs to a carrier that has been here for decades or one that started last year, the same few items matter at pickup: the title, the current registration, and the keys.
Around Blum, the 2022 Census of Agriculture from USDA counts 2,011 farms in Hill County, where corn, cattle and wheat lead the list. Cattle haulers, grain trucks and the tractors that pull feed trailers are common here, and many sit at a barn or a field gate off a county road when it is time to sell.
If your truck is a farm-plated grain hauler, give us the field or barn address and a note about gate access. We come out to the property, so there is no need to move a seasonal truck into Blum or Hillsboro for the sale.
The Texas Department of Motor Vehicles handles titles through county tax assessor-collector offices, and for Blum the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles names the Hill County Tax Office at 126 S. Covington Street, Hillsboro, 76645, about 18 miles from town on the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles office list. A seller who cannot find the title can apply there for a certified copy before we collect the truck.
Bring a photo ID and the VIN to the Hillsboro office, and if a lender ever held the truck, bring the lien release too. Once the copy is in hand, the registration and any service records you have are the rest of what we ask to see.
County Business Patterns from the Census Bureau records 4 construction establishments in the area, so some Blum trucks are titled to small building or site-work firms. If the title shows a company name, the person authorized to sign for that company should be the one at pickup.