We buy trucks in Floresville

Of the two extraction rows in this county that report a headcount, the one attaching to Floresville is the larger. Abrego is carried as a surface operation working Sand, Industrial NEC under identifier 4105413, operator of record Independence TX, with 68 employees reported to MSHA.

Industrial sand is the filing category, not the trade. This is Eagle Ford in-basin frac sand — proppant mined close to the wells it serves rather than railed in from a long way off — and the operator names in this district carry the words that the commodity field does not. The research behind this page logged it as a type string understating a node, and that is where it stops; nobody re-filed anything and neither do we.

One more thing about the record, and it cuts the other way. There are large named facilities in this district — Black Mountain Sand’s Bigfoot Mine over in Atascosa County, a Dimmit County plant, Signal Peak’s Poteet operation covering over 3,000 acres — and none of them is confirmed as one of these rows. Those figures describe the district. They are not this site’s numbers and we are not going to lend them to it.

That district framing is easier to see through the operators than through the sites, and two of them make the point on their own.

Independence TX holds this row here and another at Mentone, out in Loving County in the Permian — 68 people in the Eagle Ford and 35 in the Permian, one company, two basins. Iron Oak does the same thing more plainly still, running an Eagle Ford entity here and a West Texas entity up at Kermit. When a company names its subsidiaries after the basins, it is telling you these are two markets rather than one.

The geography behind that split is the part a seller can use. The Permian’s service centre is Midland and Odessa, an oilfield city; the Eagle Ford’s is San Antonio, roughly 30 to 35 miles from here, a large diversified metro that would exist without the oilfield at all. Bexar County alone carries three sand operations and two cement plants. So an oilfield-configured truck sitting here has a metropolitan construction and aggregates trade on its doorstep as well as a drilling one — a structural difference in how broad the market is, not a forecast about it, because which way the drilling cycle turns is nobody’s to promise.

Those loads run under a single ceiling whichever basin they came out of.

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, each written for a named industry: ready-mixed concrete, fluid milk, timber, and super heavy single-trip. No permit covers aggregate, stone, sand or quarry products, so a sand hauler falls back to the general Chapter 623 route and nothing else.

That permit adds ten per cent on the axle and five per cent on gross, takes a fifteen thousand dollar bond, and makes the holder responsible for actual damage to load-restricted roads and bridges. That damage provision is the rule most likely to actually reach this trade, whose business is running heavy over county and lease 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; § 623.011. Information, not legal advice.

Beyond the weight rules, the paperwork is a single 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.

Texas has no percentage threshold for salvage at all. The section brands a truck salvage where there is damage to, or a missing, major component part and the cost of repairs — parts and labour included, repainting and sales tax excluded — exceeds the actual cash value immediately before the damage. Effectively one hundred per cent, against seventy in Indiana and Arkansas and seventy-five in Alabama and Kentucky, and the most seller-favourable figure on file.

The major-component limb is a real second condition rather than a formality: the section enumerates thirteen parts, from engine and transmission to frame, truck cab and passenger compartment door. Whether a heavier commercial cargo body counts was not established and we are not going to guess at it.

Emissions inspection does not reach you. Diesel vehicles are not required to be emissions-inspected in Texas, and this county is not on the programme list — though neighbouring Bexar County joins it on 1 November 2026, which changes what a seller might assume rather than what they owe.

Tex. Transp. Code § 501.091. Information, not legal advice, and only as current as the date the rule file was last verified.

Those rules land the same way on every body style, and so does the offer.

Sand-box flatbeds and the drop frames that go with them. Pneumatic tankers, belly dumps and end dumps, day cabs and road tractors, water trucks, vacuum trucks, rollbacks, box trucks, service bodies, and the crew pickups behind all of it.

We buy all of them. Floresville is close enough to San Antonio that coming to you and driving it away is the ordinary case and towing it is just as easy; buying it remotely and arranging the tow is open, and so is driving it to us. Abrego under Independence TX is one of three rows in Wilson County, alongside entries at Stockdale and Elmendorf.

• 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.
• How quickly can you get here?Floresville is well inside our normal range and we come to you as a matter of course. Buying it remotely and arranging the tow is open too, and driving it to us stays open.
• My truck is oilfield-configured. Is that a problem?Less of one here than it would be further west. San Antonio is 30 to 35 miles off and carries a construction and aggregates trade alongside the oilfield one, so the equipment has more than one kind of buyer near it.
• The odometer is low but the truck is tired.Normal for proppant work. Wait time at a wellsite is engine time, so hours accumulate that the odometer never records, and we ask for the hour meter rather than reading the dash.
• Are the big tonnage figures for this mine?No, and we will not pretend otherwise. Figures like the Bigfoot Mine in Atascosa County describe the district, and none of those named facilities is confirmed as this row.
• 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.

Those are the mechanics. The reasons behind a call are more personal than that.

Retiring. A medical that went the wrong way. A contract that ended, or a company that has grown out of one truck and into another and needs the first one gone. Independence TX runs this site and Mentone in Loving County, and a company operating across two basins turns equipment over on decisions taken well away from either of them.

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, in Floresville and across Wilson County towards San Antonio.