We buy trucks in Cedar Park

One extraction row attaches to Cedar Park: the Cordova Quarry, carried as a surface operation working dimension limestone under identifier 4101344, operator of record Cobra Stone Inc., with two employees reported to MSHA.

Two people is the part that does not add up. A producing dimension-stone quarry in Williamson County — the same county as the Williamson–Bell stone belt — runs more than that. Cobra Stone Inc. also holds rows at Georgetown and at Lueders, which fits a company with a production site elsewhere and a presence here.

So the honest reading is that this is very likely a yard or a small working face rather than a production quarry. Very likely is not established, and the research behind this page recorded it as exactly that: a row whose scale does not match a quarry. We would rather hand you the discrepancy than a tidy sentence built on top of it.

That distinction changes what you would expect to find parked here. Cedar Park sits inside the Austin metro, about eight miles from Round Rock, which is suburban and commercial ground rather than quarry country.

A stone yard in a metro runs delivery equipment: flatbeds and stake beds carrying palletised product to job sites, boom trucks and knuckleboom loaders to place it, and pickups and service bodies behind them. That is short-radius work with a lot of loading cycles and comparatively little highway, so the hour meter tends to run ahead of the odometer.

The Williamson–Bell belt further out is the production end of the same trade, and the difference between the two is worth knowing when you describe a truck to us. We will ask which one yours worked rather than assume from the body style.

Those loads sit under one statewide ceiling whichever end of the trade they came off.

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 — 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. 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 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.

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.

Williamson County is on the Texas emissions inspection programme list, so the question comes up here more than it does further out. It does not reach you: diesel vehicles are not required to be emissions-inspected in Texas, and for essentially every truck we buy that settles it before the county matters.

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, reefers, service bodies, and the work trucks and pickups that go with a crew.

We buy all of them. Cedar Park is inside the metro, so coming to you and driving it away is the ordinary case here and coming to you and towing it is just as easy; we can also buy it remotely and arrange the tow, and you are welcome to drive it to us. The Cordova Quarry row under Cobra Stone Inc. is the only extraction entry on file in this part of Williamson County.

• 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.
• How quickly can you get here?Cedar Park is well inside our normal range and we come to you as a matter of course. We can also buy it remotely and arrange the tow if you would rather not be there, and driving it to us stays open.
• Do I need an emissions test to sell it?No. Diesel vehicles are exempt from Texas emissions inspection. Williamson County is on the programme list, which is why the question comes up, but the exemption answers it without reaching the county at all.
• 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.
• My flatbed delivered building stone.Then we want to look at the deck, the rub rails and the chain points rather than at the mileage — a metro stone truck collects loading cycles faster than it collects miles. It does not change whether we buy it.
• Is the Cordova Quarry really a quarry?On the record it is, at two employees under Cobra Stone Inc. That headcount does not match a producing dimension-stone site, and the research behind this page recorded it as a row whose scale does not match a quarry rather than deciding for you.

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

Retiring. A medical that went the wrong way. A yard closing, or a company that has grown out of one truck and into another and needs the first one gone. Cobra Stone Inc. holds rows at Georgetown and Lueders as well as here, and a company spread across sites that way turns equipment over for reasons that have nothing to do with any one of them.

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 Williamson County and the Austin side of it.