We buy trucks in Butterfield

The node attached to Butterfield is Fort Bliss, and it is the only entry on file with a genuine argument attached to it. The record files the installation in Texas. Its coordinate sits 28.95 miles away and reverse-geocodes to Otero County, New Mexico. Both are right, because the installation crosses the line.

Fort Bliss covers 1,119,700 acres. The McGregor and Orogrande Range Complexes account for 695,355 acres of that, all of it in Otero County, and they hold 26 of the installation’s 33 training areas together with 40 ranges, 21 training facilities and 32 launch sites. About 62 per cent of the acreage is on the New Mexico side.

The headquarters and the main cantonment are at El Paso, Texas. So the state field is right for the installation, and the coordinate is right for the ground it sits on. That is a flag rather than a finding, and we would rather show it than quietly pick a side.

Those numbers describe an area, not a fleet, and the honest thing to say is what they do not tell you. Fort Bliss’s employment, and how its people divide between Texas and New Mexico, were not established by the research behind this page and are not guessed at here.

What the acreage does establish is scale of ground rather than scale of traffic. A range complex of 695,355 acres is served on its own roads, and a truck that has worked it has worked unpaved surfaces for a living. If yours has, tell us — it is the kind of history that belongs in a description rather than in a surprise.

It also establishes that the county on the record is not Butterfield’s county. Otero County is where the coordinate falls, 28.95 miles off, on the far side of the state line. We are not going to state a county for Butterfield that no source read for this page establishes, so this page does not carry one.

Those miles run under one set of limits, whichever end of the county you start from.

Texas sets gross weight at 80,000 lb, a single axle at 20,000 lb and a tandem at 34,000 lb without a permit. With a Texas permit the single axle rises to 25,000 lb and the tandem to 46,000. Every other permit regime examined alongside it raises the gross instead, and whether a Texas permit also does that was not established, so it is not claimed here. A ready-mixed concrete truck gets 23,000 and 46,000 with no permit at all.

The permits themselves are written for named industries: ready-mixed concrete, fluid milk, timber, and super heavy single-trip. There is no permit named for aggregate, stone, sand or quarry products.

The general permit adds ten per cent on the axle and five per cent on gross, with a bond and liability for actual damage to load-restricted roads. Crossing into New Mexico is a different rule book, and nothing here should be read as covering it.

Tex. Transp. Code § 621.101; Chapter 623 permits. Information, not legal advice.

Beyond the weight rules, the paperwork is a single 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.

Texas brands a truck salvage where the cost of repairs — parts and labour, excluding repainting and excluding sales tax — exceeds one hundred per cent of the actual cash value immediately before the damage, meaning market value. That is the highest numeric threshold in the group of states researched alongside it, and both exclusions push a truck further from it. On a heavy vehicle paint is a large repair line. Texas has not adopted the Advanced Clean Trucks rule.

Tex. Transp. Code § 501.091. Information, not legal advice, and only as current as the date the rule file was last verified.

Those rules apply the same way to every body style, and so does the offer. Whatever you drive, it does not change what we do next.

Day cabs and road tractors. Flatbeds, dump trucks, rollbacks, box trucks, straight trucks, service bodies, water trucks, and the work trucks and pickups that go with a crew.

We buy all of them. Butterfield sits far enough out that buying it remotely and arranging the tow is often the realistic route rather than a second-best one, and there is no visit you have to wait around for. We will also come to you and drive it away, or come to you and tow it, and you are welcome to drive it to us. The nearest thing to a landmark on file is 28.95 miles off and in Otero County, New Mexico, which gives you a fair sense of the distances involved.

• 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.
• Do you really come out this far?We do, and out here buying it remotely and arranging the tow is often the simplest route for everyone. We can also come to you and drive it away, or come to you and tow it, and driving it to us stays open.
• My truck worked on the ranges.Then it has run unpaved ground for a living and we would like to hear about the suspension and the underside. It does not change whether we buy it.
• 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.
• Am I in Texas or New Mexico?For your truck that is a question about where it is parked, not about Fort Bliss. The installation runs across the line — about 62 per cent of its 1,119,700 acres is in Otero County, New Mexico, while its headquarters is at El Paso, Texas. Tell us the address and we will work from that.

Those are the mechanics. The reasons behind a call are more personal than that.

Retiring. A medical that went the wrong way. A contract that ended and left a truck standing in the sun on the Texas side of the line, going nowhere.

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, whichever side of the line you are parked on.

The McGregor and Orogrande Range Complexes run to 695,355 acres of Otero County ground and the headquarters is at El Paso, Texas — which is the whole reason this page will not pin a single county on the place.