The Edinburg terminal up the road
The Energy Information Administration places a petroleum product terminal named EDINBURG 2.3 miles north-west of Doolittle. A tractor that has spent its working life loading fuel there is most likely sitting in a yard a few minutes from that rack, so give us the street address of the yard rather than a town name when you get in touch.
Tank trucks that load at a product terminal usually carry their own paperwork trail: hazmat endorsements on the driver side, tank test stickers and inspection sheets on the truck side. Photograph the tank’s test plate and the cab’s VIN tag, and gather whatever annual inspection reports you still have, before you send anything to us.
Quarries south-west and north of town
La Havana Pit, a crushed-stone quarry, is 5 miles south-west of Doolittle according to the Mine Safety and Health Administration, and the same agency lists Portable Crusher #2, another crushed-stone site, 7.7 miles to the north. Dump trucks and end-dump tractors that cycle between those two crushers and job sites around Edinburg are the kind of equipment we collect from this corner of the county.
If your dump truck is parked at a quarry rather than at your house, tell us whose property it stands on and who can let a driver through the gate. Send pictures of the bed, the hoist and the frame rails along with the cab, plus the title in your name, and we can arrange collection from the pit itself.
Doolittle gravel trucks on the Texan and Perales pit run
Two sand and gravel operations sit a little further out: Texan Pit at 11.3 miles south-west and Perales Pit at 11.4 miles north, both on Mine Safety and Health Administration records. A truck that hauls between them crosses Doolittle on most trips, so the truck you are selling may well be parked closer to one of those pits than to town.
For an aggregate hauler, the useful things to have on hand are the Texas title, current registration, and any service log that shows what has been done to the hoist and the tailgate. Owners who have retired a gravel truck to a pasture lot can leave it there; we only need directions and someone reachable on the day.
Drayage tractors working the Donna rail ramp
South of Doolittle, at a distance of 12.6 miles, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics lists a rail intermodal ramp called Donna, TX - Rio Valley. Day cabs that dray containers between that ramp and Hidalgo County shippers may be parked anywhere along that southern run, so tell us exactly where yours stands.
When you contact us about a drayage tractor, lead with the VIN, the odometer reading and whether it has a sleeper or a day cab. Those three answers tell us which questions come next, and the photos can follow once we know what we are looking at.
Doolittle’s farm trucks: cotton modules, corn and cattle
Around Doolittle, Hidalgo County holds 2,045 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, which ranks cotton first, then corn, then cattle. Module trucks, grain trucks, cattle haulers and the tractors that pull livestock trailers are the equipment that work produces, and we buy those as well as the quarry and fuel trucks.
On a Doolittle farm truck, check whose name is on the Texas title before you call, since the seller has to be the titled owner; if it is lost, the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles issues certified copies, and the county tax office in Hidalgo County handles the registration side.
The questions we get asked in Doolittle
- Can my dump truck stay where it sits at La Havana Pit, south-west of Doolittle?La Havana Pit is 5 miles south-west of Doolittle on Mine Safety and Health Administration records, and we collect from quarries like it directly. Name the person at La Havana who opens the pit gate, and the hours they are there.
- Do you buy farm trucks used on Hidalgo County cotton ground?Hidalgo County has 2,045 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, with cotton the first crop listed, and module, grain and cattle trucks from those farms are all ones we purchase. Have the title holder’s name ready when you contact us.
- Which details should a Doolittle tanker owner who loaded at the Edinburg rack send us to begin?The Edinburg terminal sits 2.3 miles north-west of Doolittle according to the Energy Information Administration, so start with the yard address near it, the VIN, and a photo of the tank’s test plate.