Kendall County
Two quarries, and one of them is a single person
Two operations sit here and they are both small. The Reeh Quarry records 3 employees; Stone Source, held by El Prado Stone Management, records exactly one.
One employee is the third such node found across this whole research slice, and it is a real business rather than a recording error — a quarry can be one person with a machine and a customer list.
The crushed-stone side is rated for road work: the state highway department carries the Allen Keller Company Molesworth source in its catalogue with a surface aggregate classification behind it.
So the stone leaving here is finished, not tipped
Those two operations sit either side of a distinction that matters to equipment. One works crushed rock, the other dimension limestone.
Dimension stone is the Hill Country’s trade and it travels differently. It goes out cut and palletised, strapped to a flatbed deck, because a chipped block is a scrapped block. Crushed rock goes out tipped from a body and nobody minds if it rattles.
It means two sellers in the same small place may have completely different trucks, and a Kendall County flatbed has usually been forklifted at both ends rather than hoisted.
Texas weight law
One ceiling, and a permit list that skips stone
Both trades run under one statutory ceiling, and neither is on the relief list.
Texas sets gross weight at 80,000 lb, a single axle at 20,000 lb and a tandem at 34,000 lb — the plain federal figures, with no commodity variance of the kind Georgia and Kentucky grant.
What Texas grants instead is permits, and each one is written for a named industry: ready-mixed concrete, fluid milk, timber, and super heavy single-trip. There is no permit named for aggregate, stone, sand or quarry products. So a stone hauler here gets the general permit and nothing else, while a ready-mix truck sits on the list — two trades a reader might treat as one, on opposite sides of the line.
The general permit adds ten per cent on the axle and five per cent on gross, and it comes with a bond and liability for actual damage to load-restricted roads. 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.
Texas paperwork
We need a title — unless it never had one
Beyond the weight rules, the paperwork comes down to one 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.
One Texas rule is worth knowing because it runs further than any other state on file. Texas brands a truck salvage only where the cost of repairs exceeds the actual cash value before the damage — effectively one hundred per cent, against eighty in Florida and sixty in Oklahoma. And it is a two-part test, not pure arithmetic: there must also be damage to, or a missing, major component part.
The statute lists thirteen major component parts, and the calculation leaves out repainting and sales tax, which no other state on file excludes. For a truck whose damage is mostly cosmetic that moves the answer a long way.
Tex. Transp. Code § 501.091. Information, not legal advice, and only as current as the date the rule file was last verified.
What we buy here
All of that iron is iron we buy. Flatbeds and step decks off the Stone Source and El Prado Stone work. Dump trucks and aggregate haulers off the Reeh Quarry. Day cabs and road tractors, lowboys, rollbacks, box trucks, straight trucks, service bodies, and the work trucks and pickups that go with a crew.
Operations this size sell equipment one truck at a time across Kendall County and Kerr County, which suits how we buy anyway.
Whatever you drive, the offer doesn’t change. We buy all of them.
We buy complete trucks. If the engine, transmission, doors, rear ends, drive shafts, wheels or anything under the hood have been removed, we can’t buy it. Small things — a missing bumper — are fine.
Straight answers
The questions we get asked in Comfort
- 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.
- The deck is chewed up from stone loads.Decking is a repair, not a disqualifier. Stone Source and El Prado Stone flatbeds all end up that way.
- It is my own truck, not a fleet truck.That is the normal shape across Kendall County and Kerr County, and it usually makes the whole thing simpler.
- 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.
- Do you have to come out to look at it?Not necessarily. We can come to you and drive it away, come and tow it, buy it remotely and arrange the tow, or you can drive it to us. Whichever suits the truck and your week.
Why people call
Beyond a quarry contract ending, the reasons are personal ones. Retiring. A medical that went the wrong way. A truck bought for one job that outlived it.
Yards around the Reeh Quarry and across into Kerr County usually have one waiting.
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.