Two rail yards and the fuel terminals south of Cloverleaf
Penn City, a rail yard 2.3 miles south-east of Cloverleaf, appears in the North American Rail Network kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, along with the American yard 3.8 miles south-west. A tractor that drops and hooks trailers near either yard is usually parked close to it between runs, so tell us the street or lot and we will collect it there rather than ask you to move it.
To the south, the Energy Information Administration lists a petroleum product terminal named Houston 2.9 miles out and the Greens Port Crude by Rail terminal 3 miles south-west. If your tractor pulled tank trailers in and out of those gates, have the title in your name and the current Texas registration ready, and mention which terminal it served when you first contact us.
Four miles south sits the Phillips 66 liquid bulk terminal, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. A truck that has been in and out of that site may sit behind a fence on a yard you do not control, so give us the name of whoever can open the gate on collection day.
Quarry and mineral plants south of town
The Mine Safety and Health Administration records Vibrantz Minerals LLC, a mineral processing plant 2.3 miles south of Cloverleaf, and the Houston Plant, another processing site at 2.6 miles. Dump trucks and flatbeds that haul to plants like these are the kind we purchase; send clear photos of the cab, the bed and the plate with the VIN.
At the same 2.6 miles south, MSHA lists the Houston Sales Yard as a crushed-stone quarry. If your dump truck loads aggregate there, keep any service records you have together with the title, since they let us see what the truck has done without guessing from photos alone.
Construction crews and small plants inside Cloverleaf
Of the 1,003 jobs located in Cloverleaf in 2023, Construction held 182, or 18.1 percent, by the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts. Contractors running dump trucks, water trucks or flatbeds out of a home lot here can sell one unit while the others keep working; tell us which truck and where it is parked.
Manufacturing accounted for 53 of those jobs, a 5.3 percent share in the same LEHD figures from the Census Bureau. Box trucks and straight trucks serving small plants in town are trucks we will look at too, and the registration card plus a few photos are enough to start the conversation.
Harris County farms raising cattle, horses and potted flowers
Harris County counted 1,531 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, with cattle, equine and potted flowering plants at the top of the list. Stock trailers’ tractors, horse haulers and the box trucks that move nursery plants all come off farms like these.
A farm truck often lives in a barn or pasture away from the road, so when you reach out, tell us whether a tow vehicle can get to it and whether the title shows the farm name or your own. If the title has gone missing, the state’s title agency in Texas is the office that issues a replacement.
What to have ready before we come to Cloverleaf
Gather the title, the registration, any inspection or service records and four or five photos showing all sides of the truck and its VIN plate. With those in hand, the only question left for a Cloverleaf seller is where the truck is parked, whether at home, on a quarry yard or near a terminal gate.
If a lender still holds the title, tell us the lender’s name at the start, and the lien release can be sorted out together with the rest of the Cloverleaf paperwork.
The questions we get asked in Cloverleaf
- Our tractor sits on a lot beside Penn City yard, south-east of town; can it stay put for collection?Penn City sits 2.3 miles south-east of Cloverleaf on the North American Rail Network, and we collect from lots like that one. Send the lot’s street address plus the name of whoever holds the gate key.
- I haul aggregate from the Houston Sales Yard quarry; would you take my tandem dump off my hands?The Houston Sales Yard is a crushed-stone quarry 2.6 miles south, according to MSHA, and the dump trucks that load there are trucks we purchase. Send photos and the title details to get started.
- The title for my Cloverleaf rig has gone missing; where does a new one come from?Cloverleaf is in Harris County, so a replacement title comes from the state’s title agency in Texas. Tell us the title is missing when you contact us and we will walk you through it.