We buy trucks in Fort Hood

The installation row that attaches here is carried in the node list under the name Fort Cavazos, while the city field carries Fort Hood. That is not an error in either field. The post was redesignated Fort Cavazos on 9 May 2023, for Gen. Richard Cavazos, and changed back on 28 July 2025 — and the record simply caught the two eras in two different columns.

The 2025 restoration is worth stating precisely, because the obvious assumption about it is wrong. The name does not go back to the Confederate general. It honours Col. Robert B. Hood, a Kansas native commissioned in 1917 who served with the 12th Field Artillery Regiment of the 2nd Infantry Division in France and received the Distinguished Service Cross.

The row itself attaches by nearest-centroid fallback at 6.15 miles, with a 50 miles radius, so it reaches this place as the closest one carrying a page rather than from inside it. Coryell County holds five rows in total: this installation, a rail yard, and three crushed-stone operations.

That mix of five rows across Coryell County is the useful part, because an installation itself is not where the used trucks come from, and the row sits 6.15 miles out in any case.

A post buys services, and the fleets that provide them are civilian: construction and demolition contractors, grounds and facilities crews, haulers moving fill and aggregate off the three stone operations in this county, fuel and water trucks, and the box trucks and service bodies behind all of it. Those are ordinary commercial trucks with ordinary titles, and they turn over when a contract does.

What that means in practice is that the work here is short-radius and stop-start rather than long haul, on a mix of post roads, county roads and highway. Hours accumulate faster than miles on that pattern, so we ask for the hour meter and what the truck actually did, and we read the body and the hydraulics before the dash.

Those loads run under a ceiling that is shaped differently here than it is in most states.

Without a permit Texas sets 80,000 lb gross, 20,000 lb on a single axle and 34,000 lb on a tandem group — the plain federal figures. With a Texas permit the single axle rises to 25,000 lb and the tandem to 46,000 lb.

That is the unusual part, and it is worth saying plainly: the permit lifts the axle limits. Whether a Texas permit also raises the gross was not established by the research behind this page, and it is not asserted here in either direction.

One trade gets the relief without asking. Ready-mixed concrete trucks run 23,000 lb on the single axle and 46,000 lb on the tandem with no permit at all, which is why a mixer and a dump truck on the same road are working to different numbers.

Tex. Transp. Code § 621.101; Texas permit and ready-mixed concrete limits. Information, not legal advice.

Beyond those numbers, 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.

The Texas salvage test is the most seller-favourable on file. A truck is branded salvage only where the cost of repairs — parts and labour included, repainting and sales tax both excluded — exceeds one hundred per cent of the actual cash value immediately before the damage, actual cash value meaning market value.

Both of those exclusions push a truck further from the brand rather than closer to it, and on a heavy vehicle paint is a large repair line. Texas has also not adopted the Advanced Clean Trucks rule.

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.

Dump trucks and end dumps off the fill and aggregate work. Flatbeds and stake beds, day cabs and road tractors, water trucks, fuel and lube trucks, rollbacks, box trucks, straight trucks, service bodies, and the crew pickups behind them.

We buy all of them. Fort Hood sits in easy reach, so coming to you and driving it away is the ordinary case here and towing it is just as easy; buying it remotely and arranging the tow is open, and so is driving it to us. The installation row at 6.15 miles is one of five entries on file across Coryell County, alongside three crushed-stone operations and a rail yard.

• 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 buy government surplus?We buy trucks with ordinary titles from the people who own them. Most of what moves around a post like this belongs to contractors rather than to the post, and a contractor’s truck is a normal sale.
• How quickly can you get here?Coryell County 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 so is driving it to us.
• Is the post called Fort Hood or Fort Cavazos?Fort Hood, since 28 July 2025, for Col. Robert B. Hood rather than the Confederate general. The node list still carries the 2023 name in one field, which is why you will see both.
• My mixer runs heavier axles than my dump truck.It does, legitimately. Ready-mixed concrete gets 23,000 lb on the single axle and 46,000 on the tandem with no permit, where everything else needs one to go past 20,000 and 34,000.
• 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. Around a post, contracts are the clock: work is awarded for a term and the equipment bought to do it is surplus the week the term runs out, whatever condition it is in. The installation row 6.15 miles from here is one of five in Coryell County, and the other four are a rail yard and three stone operations that hire the same contractors.

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 Fort Hood and across Coryell County.