Eden’s crops and herds set the truck mix
Around Eden, Concho County holds 400 farms on USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, and that count lists cotton, cattle and wheat as its leading lines. A farm that ships all three tends to keep more than one kind of truck: a grain hauler for wheat at harvest, a tractor for module or bale loads, and something set up for livestock. Tell us which of those jobs your truck did and what body or trailer it ran with.
Cattle operations in the county, per that same USDA census, sit beside cotton and wheat ground rather than apart from it. If your truck pulled a stock trailer, say whether the trailer goes with it or stays on the place. We can take the tractor alone, the trailer alone, or the two together.
On a working farm outside Eden, the truck may be parked by a barn, a shop or a gate well off the paved road. Send us the address, a pin if the yard has no number, and a note on whether a tow rig can reach it after rain.
Off the ranch road
Pickup from a field, a shed or a yard in town
Our driver comes to the truck; you do not haul it into Eden or anywhere else. Give us the spot where it sits, whether keys are with it, and who will be there to hand it over. If nobody can meet us, tell us where the keys will be left.
Ahead of the visit, photograph the cab inside and out, the frame rails, the fifth wheel or bed, the tires and the dash with the ignition on. Add the VIN plate as a close shot, since a farm truck’s paperwork can sit in a different drawer from the truck itself.
If the truck has been parked since the last cotton or wheat season, say so plainly and send the photos anyway. We still buy it, and knowing where it has been standing helps us bring the right equipment to the yard.
Working in Eden
A small job base, and the trucks behind it
The Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts (LODES) put Eden at 495 jobs in 2023. An Eden truck may have served a household business, a ranch and the neighbours’ hauling in the same year. Write down the kinds of loads it carried; that list is more useful to us than a mileage log.
Check whose name is on the title before we arrive. If the title is in your own name, bring a photo ID that matches it. If it sits in a farm partnership or ranch name, have whoever can sign for that entity ready to sign.
Texas DMV
Replacing a missing title through the Concho tax office
A missing title is handled by the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles, and in practice through county tax assessor-collector offices. For an Eden truck, that means the Concho County tax assessor-collector, where you can ask for a certified copy of the title before we collect the truck.
Take your ID and the VIN to that county tax assessor-collector office, along with any registration renewal you still have. If a lender was ever listed on the title, bring the lien release too.
Once the copy arrives, check that the name and the VIN on it match the truck parked in your yard. Send us a photo of the front of that title with the truck photos, and we can line up the rest of the paperwork before the visit.
The short list for an Eden seller
Before we come out to Eden, gather the title, current Texas registration, any service or inspection records, and the keys. A farm truck’s receipts might live in a shop folder or a feed-store envelope; whatever you can find is enough.
Then send the photos, the address and the VIN. With those in hand, the call with us is about your truck and where it sits on your place, not about tracking down basic details.
The questions we get asked in Eden
- Is a wheat-harvest or stock-hauling rig from outside Eden something you purchase?Concho County’s 400 farms, counted in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, run cotton, cattle and wheat, and the trucks that serve them are the kind we buy: grain trucks, stock haulers, tractors and flatbeds.
- Which office reissues a Texas title for an Eden truck?Texas titles come from the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles through county tax assessor-collector offices, so an Eden owner asks the Concho County tax assessor-collector for a certified copy.
- Does my truck have to come off the ranch for pickup?Eden sellers leave the truck where it is, on a ranch, in a field or behind the house; send the address or a map pin and we collect it there.
- Can a truck titled to my Concho County ranch be signed over by me?A Concho County ranch or farm partnership can sell a truck titled to it, as long as the person signing has authority for that entity and brings ID that matches.