Gravel and crushed stone along the Medina
The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists Medina River Sand & Gravel 10.8 miles east of Castroville, and two crushed-stone quarries, Medina Quarry and Rio Medina Operations, 11.5 miles to the north-west. A dump truck or end-dump tractor that hauls aggregate out of those sites may be parked at a quarry lot rather than at your house. Tell us which site it sits at and who can let us through the gate, and we plan the collection there.
Farther east, Arepet Industries, a mineral processing plant, is 17.7 miles out and Madden Materials Vision Topsoil Pit is 18.5 miles away, both on Mine Safety and Health Administration listings. If your truck has hauled topsoil or processed material between those plants and job sites, keep the scale tickets or site logs with the title; they show what the truck carried without anyone needing to guess.
Intermodal yards on the San Antonio side
According to the North American Rail Network, kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, San Antonio Intermodal Terminal lies 12.9 miles east of town and the South San Antonio rail yard 17.6 miles east. A day cab that pulls containers between those yards and Medina County can stay where it is parked; send us the street address or yard gate and a contact name.
The SAIT ramp appears 13.6 miles east in Bureau of Transportation Statistics records of rail intermodal ramps. For a tractor that worked chassis moves off that ramp, the first things we ask for are the VIN, the odometer reading and clear photos of the cab, frame and fifth wheel. Everything else follows from those.
Lowboys, flatbeds and box trucks based in Castroville
General freight is listed by 27 of the 66 active Castroville carriers in FMCSA’s carrier census, with machinery and large objects listed by 15.
Of those carriers, 56 run intrastate, 9 run interstate and 24 are private fleets hauling their own goods, per FMCSA’s carrier census. A private fleet truck, such as a contractor’s flatbed or a ranch’s tractor, is sold the same way as a for-hire one: the title in the company’s name and someone with signing authority.
Fleet sizes in town range from 90 power units with 60 drivers down to 10 power units with 3 drivers, going by FMCSA’s carrier census. Whether you are selling one truck or several from a yard, list each unit’s VIN and where it sits so the collections can be arranged together.
Cattle, corn and cotton in Medina County
USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture records 2,204 farms in Medina County, with cattle, corn and cotton at the top of the list. In the same town, FMCSA’s carrier census shows 8 carriers hauling grain, feed and hay and 7 hauling farm supplies, so grain trucks, hay flatbeds and cattle pots are part of what works here.
A farm truck is often parked out at a ranch gate rather than in town. Give us directions to the barn or pasture where it stands, note any gate code, and have the registration on hand; we come out to it.
How the trucks here are driven
FMCSA’s carrier census puts 131 drivers within a 100-mile radius and 73 beyond it, and the median reported for 20 carriers is 25,000 miles per truck a year. Those are short-haul figures that fit dump, farm and local delivery work, and the odometer reading is one of the first things we ask for.
Roadside inspection records from FMCSA cover 87 trucks inspected between September 2024 and August 2026, with a median model year of 2016 and 50.6% ten or more years old. We buy trucks of every model year; send the year, make and model with your photos.
Recent registrations are few: FMCSA’s carrier census shows 2 new carriers in 2025 and none in 2024. Long-established operators selling a truck they have run for years should gather the maintenance records they still have, since they travel with the truck.
A Medina County title, registration and lien release
The title in your name is the key document. If it is lost, request a duplicate from the state’s title agency before we schedule the collection, and keep the registration with it.
The Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns counts 33 construction establishments, and its LEHD job counts show 1,029 jobs in Castroville for 2023. A contractor selling a work truck should have the company title, a signer’s ID and any lien release ready in one folder.
The questions we get asked in Castroville
- My dump truck sits at a Medina River quarry north-west of Castroville, so must I haul it into town first?Medina Quarry and Rio Medina Operations sit 11.5 miles north-west of Castroville on Mine Safety and Health Administration listings, and we collect from sites like those. Name the quarry worker who can open the gate and the spot where your dump truck is parked.
- I lost the title to my cattle truck in Medina County, so how do I replace it before selling?Medina County titles are handled through the state’s title agency, so ask it for a duplicate first. Once you hold it, send it with the registration and photos.
- Do you buy trucks that worked the San Antonio intermodal yards?San Antonio Intermodal Terminal is 12.9 miles east of Castroville by the North American Rail Network, and day cabs that pulled containers there are trucks we buy. Send the VIN, odometer reading and where it is parked.