Nine miles south-west to the Teague tracks
A tractor that shuttles loads between the tracks and the town may well be parked near that yard on the day we collect it, so give us the street or lot where it sits rather than your home address.
If your rig sits on ground that belongs to someone else near the Teague tracks, name the person who controls the gate. With that name and a phone number, the pickup can be set up around the lot instead of around you.
Quarries and pits north and west of Fairfield
Arcosa Streetman Plant # 1605, an industrial-mineral mine, lies 16.7 miles north-west of town according to the Mine Safety and Health Administration. Dump trucks and end-dump tractors that haul from a plant like that often stay on site between shifts, so tell us whether the truck is at the plant, at a yard, or at your place.
Further out, the Mine Safety and Health Administration lists the Cayuga Site, a sand and gravel operation 20.2 miles north, and Cedar Creek Stone Co Ltd, a crushed-stone quarry 25 miles west. Send photos of the bed, the frame and the cab together with the VIN, so the pictures match the truck you describe when you call.
Mining, quarrying and oil and gas extraction account for 69 of Fairfield’s 2,183 jobs in the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts for 2023, a 3.2 percent share. If your vehicle worked one of those sites under a contract, keep whatever site paperwork you have with it; it fills in the history that photos leave out.
Seventy-five trucking outfits, most of them in Texas only
FMCSA’s carrier census counts 75 active carriers in Fairfield, and 56 of them run intrastate while 19 cross state lines. For a seller, that split matters mostly for paperwork: a Texas-only tractor needs its Texas title and registration, and an interstate one should come with its current registration papers too.
Thirty-eight of those 75 operations are private fleets, hauling their own goods rather than freight for hire, on the same FMCSA carrier census. A ranch or a construction business selling one of its own trucks follows the same steps as a for-hire operator: the title, the registration, and photos.
The three biggest in FMCSA’s carrier census run 52, 40 and 5 power units, so most local carriers have a handful of trucks. Selling one unit out of a small fleet, or the whole set, works the same way; list each VIN and where each truck is parked.
General freight, machinery, feed and hay
General freight leads the cargo list, with 44 Fairfield carriers declaring it to FMCSA’s carrier census, followed by 24 that haul machinery and large objects. Day cabs, sleepers and lowboy rigs that move equipment are all trucks we purchase, and a note of what trailer the tractor pulled helps us understand the setup.
On that same FMCSA census, 22 local carriers list farm supplies and 20 list grain, feed and hay. Freestone County had 1,291 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, with cattle, horses and goats at the top. Livestock haulers, feed trucks and hay rigs from those operations are often kept at a ranch, so tell us the gate and the road to reach it.
Across 106 trucks stopped between September 2024 and August 2026, FMCSA roadside inspection records give a median model year of 2017, and 44.3 percent of those trucks were ten or more years old. Whatever the year of yours, the steps are the same: the VIN, the odometer reading, and clear photos of the cab and the chassis.
Put the current odometer figure in your first message, read straight off the dash, so we start from the number on the truck itself.
Commerce Street
A lost title is a short walk from the square
For Fairfield, that office is the Freestone County Tax Office at 305 West Commerce, Fairfield, 75840, which the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles lists 0.7 miles from the center of town.
If the title has gone missing, start the replacement at that Commerce Street office before you contact us, and tell us it is under way. When the title shows a lienholder, have the lien release ready as well, so the transfer is clean once the copy arrives.