Wichita County
One thing is on file here, and we will not pad it out
The research behind these pages found a single node attached to this town: Sheppard Air Force Base, which resolves by nearest centroid at 3.63 miles. Its coordinate reverse-geocodes to Wichita County, Texas, and that county is the one fact about it established here.
What that base does, how much ground it covers and how many people work on it were not established by the research, and this page is not going to estimate any of them. A base three and a half miles away is a real neighbour, but a real neighbour we can describe in one line is still one line, and stretching it into three paragraphs would be writing rather than reporting.
So the rest of this page is about selling a truck, which is what you came for, and it is the same straight answer we would give you anywhere in Wichita County.
Texas weight law
One ceiling, and a permit list written by industry
That said, the rules that reach a truck here are worth knowing, because they are the same whichever part of the county you are in.
Texas sets gross weight at 80,000 lb, a single axle at 20,000 lb and a tandem at 34,000 lb — the plain federal figures, with no commodity variance of the kind Georgia and Kentucky grant.
Weight relief comes through permits 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, so those trades fall back to the general Chapter 623 route.
That general permit authorises axle weight plus ten per cent and gross plus five per cent, requires a fifteen thousand dollar bond, and makes the holder responsible for actual damage to load-restricted roads and bridges. On a load-zoned road the permitted weight is ten per cent less than the maximum, so those two percentages run in opposite directions and must never be added together.
Tex. Transp. Code § 621.101; Chapter 623 permits. Information, not legal advice.
Texas paperwork
We need a title — unless it never had one
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, against eighty in Florida and sixty in Oklahoma. The calculation excludes repainting and sales tax.
Two things a seller here does not owe: diesel vehicles are exempt from Texas emissions inspection, and this county is not on the inspection programme list in any case.
Tex. Transp. Code § 501.091. Information, not legal advice, and only as current as the date the rule file was last verified.
What we buy here
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.
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, and none of that depends on there being an industry on file here. Coming to you and driving it away is normal in Wichita County, and coming to you and towing it is just as normal. We can also buy it remotely and arrange the tow, with no visit at all, and you are welcome to drive it to us. Sheppard Air Force Base being 3.63 miles off does not change any of those options one way or the other.
We buy complete trucks. If the engine, transmission, doors, rear ends, drive shafts, wheels or anything under the hood have been removed, we can’t buy it. Small things — a missing bumper — are fine.
Straight answers
The questions we get asked in Cashion Community
- 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 a small place like this?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. Being a small town in Wichita County has never been the thing that stopped a sale.
- 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 this county is not on the programme list either way.
- Is there anything special about trucks around Sheppard Air Force Base?Nothing we can tell you honestly. The base is 3.63 miles away by the nearest-centroid measure and its function, size and staffing were not established by the research behind this page, so we are not going to invent a fleet profile from it.
Why people call
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 and has been sitting beside a shed in Wichita County long enough that moving it is now the whole problem.
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 is what we are here for, three miles from Sheppard Air Force Base or three hundred.