We buy trucks in Caldwell

Burleson Sand is the operation on file at Caldwell, reported to MSHA with ninety employees under identifier 4105369, carried as a surface operation working what the form calls sand, industrial. The operator of record is Burleson Sand itself.

That commodity string undersells the node. This is Eagle Ford in-basin frac sand — sand mined close to the wells it is pumped into, rather than railed in from Wisconsin the way the industry used to do it. It is the fifth case in this research group where the federal type string says less than the operation does, and in every one of them the operator names carry the word the commodity field leaves out.

Ninety people is a substantial payroll for a single site, and it is the number worth holding on to, because everything below follows from an operation that size running trucks rather than from anything unusual about the rock.

Those trucks are not one kind of truck. Frac sand moves three genuinely different ways, and Burleson Sand sits in the middle of all three rather than favouring one.

Sand boxes are sealed containers dropped on a standard flatbed and swapped by forklift in ten to fifteen minutes. Pneumatic tankers blow the load into wellsite silos through truck-mounted equipment. Belly dumps discharge by gravity in five to fifteen minutes plus the positioning either side of it. Three body styles, one commodity, and no preference implied by any of it.

What they share is the clock. Wait time is engine time: queuing at a wellsite puts hours on a truck that the odometer never records, which is a property of frac sand delivery rather than of any one basin. What we will not tell you is that Burleson County lease roads chew equipment the way West Texas caliche does. The soil is different and the climate is wetter, no source read for this page measured the difference, and inventing a wear pattern is worse than admitting we do not have one.

Those loads run heavy, and the relief a heavy load usually gets is the part Texas does not extend here.

Texas legal limits without a permit are 80,000 lb gross, 20,000 lb on a single axle and 34,000 lb on a tandem. Weight relief comes through permits written for named industries: ready-mixed concrete, fluid milk, timber, and super heavy single-trip. No permit is named for aggregate, stone, sand or quarry products, so a sand hauler falls back to the general Chapter 623 route.

That general permit authorises axle weight plus ten per cent and gross plus five per cent, requires registration to a maximum 80,000 lb, requires a fifteen thousand dollar bond, and makes the permit holder responsible for actual damage to load-restricted roads and bridges. That last clause has no analogue in the Georgia, Alabama, Indiana or Kentucky rules researched alongside it, and it is the provision most likely to actually reach this trade.

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 has no percentage threshold for salvage at all. Tex. Transp. Code § 501.091 brands a salvage motor vehicle where there is damage to, or a missing, major component part and the cost of repairs exceeds the actual cash value immediately before the damage. That is effectively one hundred per cent, and the most seller-favourable of the six states researched for this group, against seventy in Indiana and Arkansas and seventy-five in Alabama and Kentucky.

The section enumerates thirteen major component parts, including the truck cab without qualification. The cargo box limb is qualified at ten thousand pounds or less, and whether a heavier commercial body counts was not established, so it is not guessed at here.

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

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

Pneumatic tankers and belly dumps off the sand lane. Flatbeds that carried boxes, day cabs and road tractors, dump trucks, rollbacks, straight trucks, service bodies, and the work trucks and pickups that go with a crew.

We buy all of them. Caldwell is reachable, so coming to you and driving it away is straightforward and coming to you and towing it is just as normal; we can also buy it remotely and arrange the tow if you would rather not be there, and you are welcome to drive it to us. Burleson Sand and its ninety people are the reason there is a fleet in Burleson County to buy from.

• 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 come out to Burleson County?Yes. We come to you and drive it away, or we come to you and tow it. We can also buy it remotely and arrange the tow, with no visit at all, and driving it to us stays open if you prefer.
• My tanker hauled frac sand.Then it has had a harder life than one that carried cement, because the material is chosen for hardness and crush resistance, and the wellsite queuing put hours on it the odometer never saw. Tell us about both. 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.
• Do you take sand boxes and the flatbed under them?We buy the truck. A flatbed configured for sand boxes is a flatbed, and Burleson Sand runs alongside pneumatic tankers and belly dumps doing the same job three different ways.

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

Retiring. A medical that went the wrong way. A truck that stopped earning when the completions moved and has been sitting at the edge of a yard ever since.

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, across Burleson County and the sand lanes off Burleson Sand.