We buy trucks in Canyon Lake

The operation on file here is ROX, Inc., reported to MSHA with seven employees under identifier 4104156, carried as a surface operation working dimension stone. The operator of record is ROX, Inc. itself.

Dimension stone is worth separating from the crushed rock that dominates most of this state’s aggregate map. Crushed stone is sold by the ton and handled by loader; dimension stone is cut, sized and sold as a building product. Comal County sits in the Hill Country building-stone belt, the same trade as Fredericksburg, San Saba and the Williamson–Bell belt further north.

Nothing specific to this site beyond its size and its commodity was found in the research behind this page, so the paragraphs below describe the trade rather than claiming detail about the yard.

That trade puts its wear somewhere unusual. Building stone travels as palletised finished product and as chained rough block, which means dense loads that reach legal gross at low deck volume — a flatbed that looks half empty and weighs out anyway.

The forklift is the other half of it. Product goes on and comes off by machine at both ends, so the deck itself takes the punishment: plank wear, rub rails, chain and binder points, and a frame that has been loaded in concentrated spots rather than evenly. On a Hill Country stone truck the deck usually tells you more about its life than the odometer does.

Position helps here. San Antonio is roughly 50 miles from Canyon Lake and Austin roughly 65, so both metropolitan markets are within reach — more reach than San Saba has, and less than the Williamson–Bell belt. That is a statement about distance, not about demand.

Those weighed-out loads sit under a single ceiling, and the trade gets no relief written for it.

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.

Texas grants weight relief through named specialized industry permits: ready-mixed concrete, fluid milk, timber, and super heavy single-trip. No permit is named for aggregate, stone, sand or quarry products, so a stone hauler falls back to the general Chapter 623 route and nothing else.

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 — a provision with no analogue in the Georgia, Alabama, Indiana or Kentucky rules researched alongside 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 has no percentage threshold for salvage. 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 — effectively one hundred per cent, and the most seller-favourable of the six states researched alongside it.

One more thing a Comal County seller might reasonably worry about and does not need to: diesel vehicles are not required to be emissions-inspected in Texas. Bexar County joins the inspection programme on 1 November 2026, and Comal is not on the county list either way, but for essentially every truck we buy the diesel exemption settles it before the county question arises.

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.

Flatbeds and stake beds off the stone run. Boom trucks and knuckleboom loaders, day cabs and road tractors, dump trucks, rollbacks, box trucks, straight trucks, service bodies, and the work trucks and pickups that go with a crew.

We buy all of them. With San Antonio around 50 miles out and Austin around 65, coming to you and driving it away is straightforward here, and coming to you and towing it is just as normal. We can also buy it remotely and arrange the tow, and you are welcome to drive it to us. ROX, Inc. and the Hill Country stone trade around it are why there is equipment in Comal County to buy.

• 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 the lake?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.
• My flatbed hauled building stone.Then we want to look at the deck, the rub rails and the chain points, because that is where a stone truck shows its history rather than in the mileage. 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 I need an emissions test first?No. Diesel vehicles are exempt from Texas emissions inspection, and Comal County is not on the programme county list in any case.
• How far out do you come?All of Comal County and the ones around it. San Antonio at roughly 50 miles and Austin at roughly 65 are both well inside our normal range.

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

Retiring off a stone yard. A medical that went the wrong way. A truck that stopped earning when a building job finished and has been parked at the back of a Comal County lot 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, out of the Hill Country stone belt as much as anywhere else.