Bovina tractors behind grain trailers
Of Bovina’s 29 active carriers, FMCSA’s carrier census lists 26 that haul grain, feed or hay, 8 that move livestock and 7 that carry farm supplies. A seller here most often has a tractor that has pulled a hopper or a cattle pot, so tell us which trailer it was coupled to and whether the trailer is part of the sale.
Only 5 Bovina carriers report general freight in that federal census, so a van or flatbed outfit is the exception in town. Whatever the body, send the VIN, a photo of the door plate and the current registration with your first message.
Farm trucks parked between Bovina harvests
Around Bovina, Parmer County counted 477 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, with cattle, corn and sorghum at the top of the list. Farm trucks, feed trucks and tractors that sit at a farmstead between harvests are exactly what we collect, so give us the gate or yard where the truck is parked.
If a truck belongs to the farm rather than a registered carrier, the title may be in a family member’s name. Have that person sign, or bring their written authority, and keep any service records from the shop that maintains the farm’s equipment.
In state or across it
Where a Bovina truck is parked today
Seventeen Bovina carriers operate intrastate only and 12 cross state lines, according to FMCSA’s carrier census, which also lists 6 private fleets hauling their own goods. A tractor that stays inside Texas is usually at a yard near town, while one with interstate authority may be out on a load when you first call us.
Drivers here are spread wide: the same census records 82 working beyond a 100-mile radius and 21 inside it. Tell us the city and state where the truck will be on pickup day, and we arrange collection there rather than asking you to bring it home to Bovina.
The ten carriers that give FMCSA a mileage figure report a median of 40,430 miles per truck each year. Photograph the Bovina truck’s dash showing the odometer, and put that number in the same message as the VIN.
Scale-house history
Bovina tractors stopped at the scales center on model year 2013
FMCSA roadside inspection records list 45 Bovina trucks checked between October 2024 and August 2026, with a median model year of 2013 and 57.8 percent at ten or more years old. We buy across that whole span of model years, so state the year, make and engine on your first message.
Bovina’s biggest fleet runs 55 power units with 55 drivers, and the next two have 8 and 6 units, per FMCSA’s carrier census. If you are selling several units from one operation, list each VIN separately and note which titles are in the company’s name.
Certified title copies at the Farwell tax office
The Texas Department of Motor Vehicles issues titles through county tax assessor-collector offices, and for Bovina that is the Parmer County Tax Office at 401 3rd St, Farwell, 79325, about 12.7 miles from town. Go there for a certified copy if the original title is missing, before we schedule the pickup.
Bring photo identification and the VIN to the Farwell counter, and if a lender once held a lien on the truck, carry the lien release letter as well. A clean title in the seller’s name is the one document we cannot collect the truck without.
Rock out of the south-east
Rock trucks hauling from the pit below Bovina
Head 24 miles south-east of Bovina and you reach Copley Pit, which the Mine Safety and Health Administration lists as a crushed-stone quarry. Dump trucks and end-dump tractors that haul rock from a pit like that are on our list, and they can be collected at the quarry yard if that is where they sit.
Parmer County has 4 construction establishments on the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns, a small trade base for a farm county where a dump truck often doubles as a feed or gravel hauler. If your dump truck or service body worked for one of them, gather the registration, any DOT inspection sticker records and photos of the bed and hoist.
The questions we get asked in Bovina
- My grain truck only leaves the Bovina shed at harvest; should I contact you in the off-season?Bovina’s grain, feed and hay haulers make up 26 of the town’s 29 active carriers in FMCSA’s carrier census, so seasonal farm trucks are common here, and we buy them. Send the VIN, title and photos whenever it is parked.
- I misplaced the pink slip for my Bovina hopper tractor; who reissues it?Bovina sellers use the Parmer County Tax Office, 401 3rd St in Farwell, a 12.7-mile drive, which issues certified title copies for the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles. Sort the copy out in Farwell, then call us to set the collection.
- My Bovina tractor is hauling out of state this month. Must it return to Parmer County to sell?FMCSA’s carrier census shows 82 Bovina drivers working beyond a 100-mile radius, so trucks away from town are routine for us. Tell us where it will be and we collect it there.