We buy trucks in Christine

The operation on file at Christine is FCI Sand Operations LLC, reporting 13 employees to MSHA under identifier 4105429, carried as a surface operation working what the form calls sand, industrial. It resolves here by nearest centroid at 9.45 miles, so it is an Atascosa County neighbour rather than something at the edge of town.

Atascosa County is also where the district’s best-known names sit, and this is exactly where a page could go wrong. Capacity figures in the two-million-annual-ton range circulate for named in-basin facilities in this county, and a plant covering over three thousand acres is described in the same district. None of those named facilities is confirmed as this row.

So they are recorded here as what they are: context for the district, not a description of FCI Sand Operations LLC. A thirteen-person operation and a two-million-ton plant are different things, and putting them in the same sentence without that line would be borrowing a scale this node has not earned.

Beyond the size question, what this material does to a truck is well enough established to say. This is in-basin frac sand — mined close to the wells it is pumped into rather than railed across the country — and the commodity string on the row says less about it than the trade does.

Wait time is engine time. Wellsite queuing puts hours on a truck that the odometer never records, and that is a property of frac sand delivery rather than of any one basin or county. If yours ran wellsites, the hour meter tells you more than the odometer does. FCI Sand Operations LLC is a thirteen-person site 9.45 miles out, and its trucks queue the same way every other in-basin operation’s do.

What we will not tell you is that Atascosa County lease roads chew equipment the way West Texas caliche does. The soil is different and the climate is wetter, nothing read for this page measured the difference, and a wear pattern invented to fill that gap would be worse than the gap.

Those loads run heavy, and the relief a heavy load usually gets is the part Texas does not extend to this commodity.

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 Texas specialized industry permit covers sand, so an overweight frac sand haul is on a general Chapter 623 permit.

That permit carries a fifteen thousand dollar bond and liability for actual damage to load-restricted roads and bridges, and it authorises axle weight plus ten per cent and gross plus five per cent with registration to a maximum 80,000 lb. It is the rule identified in this research as most likely to actually bite this industry.

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, the most seller-favourable of the six states researched alongside it.

The calculation excludes repainting and sales tax. Bexar County joins the emissions inspection programme on 1 November 2026 and Atascosa County is not on the list, but diesel vehicles are exempt from that inspection regardless.

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.

Pneumatic tankers and belly dumps off the sand. Flatbeds set up for sealed containers, day cabs and road tractors, vacuum and 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. Christine is within reach of San Antonio, 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. FCI Sand Operations LLC at 9.45 miles is the row on file, and its thirteen people are the honest measure of it.

• 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 Atascosa 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 tanker worked wellsites.Then it has hours the odometer never recorded, because queuing is engine time. Tell us roughly how many. 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.
• Is an oilfield-configured truck harder to sell?Not to us. And in this part of the state the audience is wider than the oilfield alone, because San Antonio’s construction, aggregates and cement trades run much the same equipment.

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 when the completions moved off and has been parked at the edge of an Atascosa County yard 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, whether it ran for FCI Sand Operations LLC or for somebody with one truck and a contract.