Feed and hay
Grain, feed and farm supply haulers around Comanche
Among Comanche’s 107 active carriers, FMCSA’s carrier census shows 54 hauling grain, feed and hay, with 46 also carrying farm supplies. If your tractor or straight truck has spent its seasons on those loads, a trailer pairing note helps us: tell us whether it pulled a hopper, a flatbed of round bales or a feed body, and send a photo of the hitch setup.
Dairy leads Comanche County’s 1,500 farms, ahead of cattle and cotton, in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture. A truck that lives on a dairy or ranch is often parked by a barn or a pen rather than a paved lot, so give us the ranch road, the gate details and the name of whoever can let our driver in.
General freight shows up as a declared cargo for 61 Comanche carriers in the FMCSA census, so not every rig here is an ag truck. Whatever it hauled, have the title in your name and the current Texas registration together before you call, and the rest of the paperwork can follow.
The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists Proctor Quarry, a crushed-stone operation, 9.1 miles east of town, and Mendoza Stone LLC, a dimension-stone quarry, 24.7 miles south. A dump truck or flatbed that has run stone out of either pit can be collected right at the quarry gate or at your shop; just tell us which, and whether site rules require an escort.
South-west by 24.9 miles, the BROWNWOOD rail yard appears in the North American Rail Network kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. If your truck shuttles loads to that yard and sits near Brownwood between runs, we can meet it there instead of in Comanche.
Mining, quarrying and oil and gas extraction account for 109 jobs in the area, about 6.1 percent of 1,799, according to the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts for 2023. Owners whose trucks did quarry or oilfield work should keep any site sign-in sheets or haul tickets; they help us confirm where the unit worked.
FMCSA’s census splits the town’s carriers into 85 that run intrastate and 21 authorized for interstate work, with 53 operating as private fleets that move their own goods. A private-fleet truck may be titled to a farm or a business entity, so check whose name is on the title and have that person or an officer ready to sign.
Drivers tied to Comanche carriers number 156 who stay within 100 miles and 204 who go beyond that radius, per the FMCSA carrier census. If yours is out on a long run when you decide to sell, tell us where it will be parked next and we can plan the pickup there.
For 32 carriers that reported mileage, the FMCSA census puts the median at 24,375 miles a year per truck. Write down the current odometer reading and the VIN from the door jamb before you contact us; those two numbers start every conversation.
Power units, owner-operators and model years around Comanche
The three biggest carriers registered here run 29, 24 and 20 power units, according to FMCSA’s carrier census. If you manage a fleet of that size and are retiring several units at once, send a list with each VIN, model year and location so we can look at all of them together.
Across 81 trucks inspected at the roadside between September 2024 and August 2026, FMCSA roadside inspection records show a median model year of 2016, with about 51 percent ten or more years old. Whatever the model year, gather recent inspection reports and service invoices and keep them with the title.
Comanche added seven carriers to the FMCSA census in 2024 and six more in 2025. A newer owner-operator who has bought a truck with a lien should have the lender’s name and contact details on hand, since the lien has to be released for the title to transfer.
Bridges and payrolls
Bridges, jobs and getting a truck collected
Just one of the 26 bridges around Comanche carries a load posting in the National Bridge Inventory, and none of them clears less than 14 feet. Tell us about any posted crossing on the way to your yard so we route around it.
Transportation and warehousing employ 124 people here, 6.9 percent of local jobs, while manufacturing accounts for 112 and wholesale trade 65, by the Census Bureau’s LEHD counts for 2023. Box trucks and straight trucks from those businesses are welcome too; photos of the body, the liftgate and the cab interior help us see the whole unit.
Comanche’s 16 construction firms, as tallied in the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns, sit alongside the haulers here. Contractors selling a dump truck or a flatbed should note any mounted equipment, such as a crane or a toolbox, and say whether it goes with the truck.
The questions we get asked in Comanche
- Will your driver come out to a Comanche County dairy to pick up my feed truck?Comanche County has 1,500 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, milk first among them, and we pick up at farms like those. Send the ranch address, gate directions and a contact who will be there.
- I cannot find the title for my Comanche-registered truck; who issues a new one?Comanche owners request a duplicate from the state’s title agency, in the name on the current registration. Start that request before the sale so the paperwork is in hand at pickup.
- Can my dump truck stay at Proctor Quarry for collection instead of coming into Comanche?Proctor Quarry is 9.1 miles east of Comanche in the Mine Safety and Health Administration listings, and we can collect at the quarry if the operator allows it. Tell us whose permission is needed at the gate.
- What paperwork should a farm-owned truck have ready?With 53 private fleets in Comanche on FMCSA’s census, many trucks here are titled to a farm or business. Have the title, the registration, and a signer authorized for that entity ready.