Stone haulers between the Burnet plants
The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists the Burnet Plant, a crushed-stone quarry 3.9 miles south of town, and the Burnet Screening Plant 4.9 miles north. A dump truck or end-dump tractor that cycles between those gates is often parked at a quarry lot or a yard just outside town, so give us the exact location and whether a loaded trailer is still hooked to it.
The Mine Safety and Health Administration also lists Eagle’s Nest Mine, a sand and gravel operation 9.5 miles west. If your truck hauled aggregate there, send photos of the bed, the hoist and the cab along with the VIN plate, and tell us which gate a driver should use to reach it.
Sunset Quarries at 12.1 miles south and Cordova Quarry at 15.7 miles south-east both cut dimension stone, per MSHA records. Flatbeds that move cut blocks out of those sites can be collected at the quarry itself; just confirm with the site that a pickup driver is allowed in.
FMCSA’s carrier census shows 107 active carriers based in Burnet, and 99 of them are registered intrastate against 8 interstate. For a seller that usually means Texas plates and a Texas title, so have the title and current registration in the same folder before you call.
Private fleets account for 51 of those carriers on the federal carrier census, which covers the contractor, ranch or plant that hauls its own material. If the truck is titled to your business rather than to you, have the person who can sign for the company available when we collect it.
The FMCSA roll records 53 Burnet carriers hauling general freight, 27 carrying machinery and large objects, 15 moving logs, poles, beams and lumber, and 12 hauling metal sheets, coils and rolls. Lowboys, step-decks and flatbeds fit those cargo lines, and we buy the trailer with the tractor or on its own.
Short runs and home yards
Of the drivers listed by FMCSA for Burnet carriers, 112 work within 100 miles and 85 range beyond it. Most trucks here come home at night, so the place we pick up is likely your own shop, driveway or ranch gate.
A median of 23,750 miles per truck each year comes from the 25 Burnet carriers that report mileage to FMCSA. Note your own odometer figure when you send photos so the paperwork and the pictures agree.
One Burnet fleet runs 29 power units with 5 drivers, another 11 power units with 4, and a third 8 with 7, per the carrier census. If you are selling several units at once, list each VIN and where each one is parked so we can plan one trip.
Seventy-five trucks belonging to Burnet carriers were stopped between October 2024 and August 2026, and FMCSA roadside inspection records put their median build at model year 2013. That year tells us which engine and emissions paperwork to ask about, so keep the build sheet or a service record handy if you kept one.
Ten or more model years separated 62.7 percent of those inspected Burnet trucks from the present, by the same FMCSA roadside records. We look at each Burnet truck on its own photos and records, so send a recent inspection report with them if you have one.
Plants, building sites and cattle
Manufacturing holds 543 of Burnet’s 3,426 jobs, about 15.8 percent, on the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts for 2023, with construction at 172 and wholesale trade at 111. Box trucks and tractors that serve plant docks often sit in a company lot, so tell us whether a gate code or escort is needed.
Burnet has 59 construction establishments in the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns, and their dump trucks, water trucks and equipment haulers are welcome here. Have the title and any lien release ready if the truck was financed.
USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 1,428 farms in Burnet County, led by cattle, goats and horses. Stock trailers, flatbeds and ranch pickups rated for commercial work can be collected from the pasture gate as long as a truck can reach it.
Signatures, liens and keys for a Burnet sale
Every Burnet sale needs the title signed by the owner on record. If the title is missing or still shows a lender, sort that out before pickup, and tell us early so we can explain what the signature line needs.
Have the registration, the title, any lien release and the keys together on the day we collect. A truck that sits at one of the quarries north or south of town needs only a contact on site who can let our driver in.
The questions we get asked in Burnet
- Can you pick up a stone truck sitting at the Burnet Plant or the screening plant?The Burnet Plant 3.9 miles south and the Burnet Screening Plant 4.9 miles north are both MSHA-listed crushed-stone sites, and we collect from quarry lots like those once the site agrees to let our driver in.
- My Burnet business hauls its own material; can the company sell a truck?Private fleets make up 51 of Burnet’s 107 carriers on FMCSA’s census, and a company-titled truck sells the same way as long as someone authorised to sign for the business signs the title.
- Do you buy livestock and ranch trailers?Burnet County’s 1,428 farms, per USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, are led by cattle, goats and horses, and we buy the stock trailers and flatbeds that serve them, with or without the truck.