We buy trucks in Floydada

A single extraction row attaches to Floydada and it is the only one in Floyd County. The Ross Pit is carried as crushed and broken limestone, operator of record Amarillo Road Company, with eight employees reported to MSHA.

The geography around it is the unusual part. Floyd County lies on the eastern edge of the Caprock escarpment, where the High Plains drop several hundred feet to the rolling country below, so the routes off the Caprock are among the only sustained grades anywhere on the Llano Estacado. Almost everything else up there is flat, and a truck that has worked these roads has done something most trucks in this part of the state have not.

The registration record leaves a gap worth stating rather than smoothing over. No active TCEQ aggregate production registration lies within one mile of this node; the nearest is 11.2 miles away. That can mean a lapsed registration, a registration recorded at a different point, an inaccurate coordinate, or an operation outside the definition, and the research behind this page did not distinguish between them.

That escarpment is not scenery as far as a truck is concerned.

A sustained grade is the one thing that separates otherwise identical trucks. Loaded descents work the service brakes, the engine brake and the cooling system in a way that flat hauling simply does not, and repeated heat cycles show up in drums, linings, hubs and seals long before they show up in a number on the dash. A truck that spent its life on the High Plains and one that spent it running off the Caprock can have the same mileage and be in very different condition.

So when you describe a truck out of here we will ask which side of that it worked, and whether the loads went up or down. It is a concrete, checkable question rather than a way of talking the truck down — a well-maintained grade truck is a known quantity, and the Llano Estacado is short enough of grades that the answer is usually easy to give.

Those loaded descents run under a single ceiling, and the rock gets no relief written for it.

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 is named for aggregate, stone, sand or quarry products, so a stone hauler falls back to the general Chapter 623 route while a ready-mix truck on the same road sits on the list.

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. 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.

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. The section brands a truck salvage where there is damage to, or a missing, major component part and the cost of repairs exceeds the actual cash value immediately before the damage — effectively one hundred per cent, against eighty in Florida and sixty in Oklahoma, and the highest figure on file by a wide margin.

The calculation leaves out repainting and sales tax, which no other state on file excludes. On a pit truck working dusty country, where the paint is the first thing to go, that exclusion moves the answer a long way.

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 either.

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.

Tandem and tri-axle dump trucks, end dumps and belly dumps off the base and aggregate work. Flatbeds and stake beds, grain trailers off the farm side, day cabs and road tractors, water trucks, rollbacks, box trucks, service bodies, and the crew pickups behind them.

We buy all of them. Floydada is a long way from a dealer, so buying it remotely and arranging the tow is a normal path here rather than a last resort — the whole thing can be done without you waiting around. Coming to you and driving it away, or coming to you and towing it, are both open, and driving it to us stays open too. The Ross Pit under Amarillo Road Company is the only extraction entry on file anywhere in Floyd County.

• 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.
• Do you come out this far?We do, and out here buying it remotely and arranging the tow is often simpler for everybody. Driving it to us stays open if that suits you better.
• My truck ran off the Caprock loaded.Then tell us, because it matters. The grades off the escarpment are among the only sustained ones on the Llano Estacado, and a truck that worked them has a brake and cooling history that a flat-country truck of the same mileage does not.
• Does the farm side count?Yes. Grain trailers, tandem dumps and farm-registered trucks are ordinary here, and Floyd County has one aggregate row and a great deal of agriculture around it.
• Do I need an emissions test to sell it?No. Diesel vehicles are exempt from Texas emissions inspection, and Floyd County is not on the programme list either way.
• 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 season that did not pay, or an operation that has grown out of one truck and into another and needs the first one gone. In a county carrying one row on the whole record, the Ross Pit under Amarillo Road Company aside, most of the equipment out here belongs to farms and small contractors rather than to companies with a replacement schedule — and the nearest active registration to that pit is 11.2 miles off, which tells you how thinly this country is covered.

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 Floydada and along the eastern rim of the Caprock.