Stone quarries north and east of the lake
The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists ROX, Inc., a dimension-stone quarry, just 4.5 miles north of Canyon Lake. A truck that hauls cut stone off that site may be parked at the quarry itself on pickup day, so tell us the gate it sits behind and who can let our driver in.
Hunter Quarry, 14.1 miles east, and BRAUNTEX MATERIALS, INC., 14.2 miles south-east, both appear as crushed-stone quarries in Mine Safety and Health Administration records. If your dump truck or end-dump tractor hauls from those two pits, send photos of the bed, the hoist, the cab and the VIN plate with your first message.
Gravel pits and cement plants to the south
Smithson Valley Quarry lies 13 miles south-west and the Solms Operation 14.8 miles south; federal mine-safety records from MSHA class both as sand and gravel operations. Mixers and gravel trucks tied to either site can be collected where they are kept, whether that is a home driveway near the lake or a yard along the way to the pit.
Two cement plants show up in the Mine Safety and Health Administration list for this area: the Balcones Plant, 14.7 miles south, and 1604 QUARRY & PLANT, 19.5 miles south-west. A bulk cement tractor or pneumatic trailer rig that serves those plants sells the same way as any other unit here: have the title in your name, the current Texas registration, and any maintenance invoices you kept in one folder before you call.
Lowboys, log rigs and car haulers by the lake
FMCSA’s carrier census counts 108 active carriers here, and 90 of them run intrastate only while 18 cross state lines. For the intrastate majority, the truck is almost always somewhere in the Texas Hill Country when we come for it, so a street address and a phone number for whoever holds the keys is usually all the scheduling we need.
General freight is the cargo listed by 51 of those carriers, machinery and large objects by 25, motor vehicles by 13, and logs, poles, beams and lumber by 12, per the same federal census. Lowboys, car haulers and log trucks fit on that list as readily as box trucks, so tell us the body type and trailer setup when you first reach out.
In FMCSA’s carrier census, 47 of the local carriers are marked as private, hauling their own goods. A contractor or landscaper selling a truck registered under a private fleet should bring the USDOT number along with the title so we can match the unit to the registration.
How the local trucks are run and inspected
One carrier here runs 35 power units with 29 drivers, another runs 13 units with 13 drivers, and a third runs 10 with 10, according to FMCSA registrations. If you manage a fleet like those and want to sell several trucks together, send us a list of VINs and the yard where each one is parked, and we will plan collection unit by unit.
Across 29 carriers reporting mileage, the median works out to 18,333 miles per truck per year in FMCSA’s census. On the driver side, Canyon Lake carriers report 159 drivers who stay inside 100 miles and 96 who go farther, per FMCSA’s census. Have the current odometer reading in hand before you call; it is one of the first things we ask.
Roadside checks of 1,203 Canyon Lake trucks from August 2024 to August 2026, in FMCSA roadside inspection records, show a median model year of 2014 and 59.3 percent at ten or more years old. Whatever model year yours is, the paperwork we need stays the same: title, registration and the VIN.
Builders and job sites around the lake
Construction accounts for 583 of the 3,825 jobs counted here in 2023, a 15.2 percent share, by the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts. In those LEHD counts, wholesale trade adds 83 jobs and manufacturing 55. Builders selling a flatbed, a dump truck or a crew truck can have it collected straight from a job site, as long as someone there can hand over the keys.
The Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns tallies 327 construction businesses operating in Comal County. If your company is one of them and the truck is titled to the business rather than to you, have an officer of the company ready to sign the title, along with a letter on company letterhead authorising the sale.
Ranch trucks
Goats, horses and sheep on Comal County farms
USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 888 farms in Comal County, with goats, equine and sheep heading the livestock list. Stock trucks, livestock haulers and ranch flatbeds often sit at a gate off a county road, so give us directions past the last paved turn and say whether a trailer is attached.
Ranch trucks are frequently titled to a family member or a farm partnership. If the name on the Texas title is not yours, or the title has gone missing, the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles handles certified copies and can start that request before we schedule collection.
Getting here
Clearances on the way in, and the base to the south-west
The National Bridge Inventory lists 41 bridges in the Canyon Lake area, and none of them is load-posted or under 14 feet of clearance. A tall dump body or a loaded lowboy can reach most addresses here without a detour, which keeps your pickup straightforward to arrange.
Joint Base San Antonio lies 25 miles south-west, on the Bureau of Transportation Statistics list of military installations. Trucks that move equipment or materials to the base can be collected near the lake or wherever you park them closer to San Antonio; just tell us the address and the best hours to reach it.
The questions we get asked in Canyon Lake
- Do you collect dump trucks that work the quarries near Canyon Lake?ROX, Inc. sits 4.5 miles north and Hunter Quarry 14.1 miles east in Mine Safety and Health Administration listings, and dump trucks serving either are trucks we buy. Tell us which pit the truck hauls from and the yard where it is kept.
- Is a truck that stays on Texas roads one you will take?Ninety of the 108 carriers in FMCSA’s census for Canyon Lake operate intrastate only, so a Texas-only truck is the usual case here. Bring the title, the Texas registration and your USDOT number if you have one.
- Which office replaces a missing title for a truck kept near Canyon Lake?The Texas Department of Motor Vehicles issues certified copies of a Texas title. Start it before you contact us so the sale is not held up.
- Can you reach a ranch gate off a county road?Comal County’s 888 farms, counted by USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, are mostly reached by county roads, and the National Bridge Inventory shows none of the area’s 41 bridges load-posted. Send directions past the last paved turn and we will come to the truck.