We buy trucks in Center Point

Center Point carries two extraction rows rather than one, and they sit close. The Kerrville operation runs fifteen people on MSHA’s books at 3.14 miles. The Bedrock Plant, operated by Martin Marietta Materials Southwest, LLC, is recorded with nine at 1.37 miles and carried as construction sand and gravel.

The first of those is filed under crushed stone and should not be. Three separate records agree the material is not crushed rock: the operator name is Kerrville Sand & Gravel, the registered site name is the same, and the state register records the material as gravel, sand and soil.

That register entry is unusually specific. Registration AP0003603 sits 0.02 miles from the node — effectively on top of it — under the site name Kerrville Sand & Gravel Pit, covering 139 acres, with a current expiry of 25 September 2026. Registration is per site and renewed annually, so an expiry date is a renewal cycle rather than a wind-down.

That correction matters more than a filing error usually would, because gravel and crushed stone are not the same load. Quarried rock is blasted, crushed and screened to angular sizes. River gravel is dug, washed and screened, and it is rounder, wetter and more variable through the pit.

For a truck the difference shows up in the body. Wet gravel and sand stick and carry water weight, so tarps, liners and body floors take a harder life than they do on dry crushed rock, and a belly dump gate that has run wet material has been worked. That is a property of the commodity, and it is the reason we ask what a body actually carried rather than reading it off the shape.

Two operations within 3.14 miles of the same small town also means the local fleet is larger than the town suggests. Kerr County equipment tends to come up for sale in ones and twos rather than in fleet lots, which suits us fine.

Those wet loads run under the same ceiling as dry ones, and the material 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.

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 gravel hauler out of Kerr County falls back to the general Chapter 623 route.

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. On a gravel truck, where the paint goes first and the driveline outlasts it, that exclusion moves the answer a long way. Kerr County is not on the emissions inspection programme list, and diesel vehicles are exempt 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.

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.

Belly dumps and end dumps off the pits. Flatbeds, day cabs and road tractors, water trucks, 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. Center Point is reachable, so coming to you and driving it away is straightforward 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. The Bedrock Plant at 1.37 miles and the Kerrville operation at 3.14 are the two rows on file, and between them they are why there is equipment here at all.

• 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 Kerr County?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 if you prefer.
• My dump hauled wet gravel.Then the body floor, the liner and the gate have had a harder life than the mileage suggests, and we would like to hear about them. 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.
• Which pits are actually here?Two on file. The Bedrock Plant under Martin Marietta Materials Southwest, LLC at 1.37 miles, and the Kerrville operation at 3.14 miles, whose state registration records the material as gravel, sand and soil over 139 acres.

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

Retiring. A medical that went the wrong way. A hauling contract that ended and left a truck parked behind a barn in Kerr County, going nowhere and still costing something.

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, whether it ran the Bedrock Plant or hauled for somebody with one pit and one contract.