The rail yard and Fort Cavazos
The North American Rail Network, kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, places a rail yard 4.3 miles west of town, listed under the post’s own name. If your tractor or flatbed has shuttled loads to and from that siding, tell us so when you get in touch, along with the VIN and the address where it is parked now.
Fort Cavazos, a military installation, lies 6.1 miles to the north-east on the Bureau of Transportation Statistics map. A truck kept near the gate or on a contractor’s yard by the post can stay there; give us the name of whoever can let our driver in and the hours the lot is open, and the collection is planned around that access.
Crushed stone at Gibbs Quarry and Nolanville
Gibbs Quarry, a crushed-stone operation, is 9.9 miles south of Fort Hood in Mine Safety and Health Administration records, and the Nolanville Mine & Mill sits 11.9 miles east. Dump trucks, end dumps and belly-dump tractors that cycle between those pits and job sites are trucks we buy, so photograph the bed, the hoist and the cab along with the plate.
If the truck is still parked at one of those quarries, a pit gate is no obstacle for us. Send the quarry name, the contact who signs visitors in, and the title in the owner’s name. Our driver collects at the pit itself, with nobody driving it out.
Dimension stone
Heartland and Rock Solid, south of town
Further south, the Mine Safety and Health Administration lists two dimension-stone quarries: HEARTLAND QUARRIES PIT # 2 at 16.9 miles and Rock Solid Stone Quarry at 17 miles. Block and slab loads off those sites usually ride on flatbeds or heavy-spec tractors, and either kind is welcome here.
For a flatbed that hauled cut stone, list the trailer’s deck length, the tie-down gear that goes with it and whether the tractor and trailer are sold together or apart. Service invoices from a local shop help, and a clear photo of the registration sticker saves a phone call.
Of the 70 bridges counted around Fort Hood by the National Bridge Inventory, 2 carry a posted load limit and 1 has less than 14 feet of clearance. Tell us if the truck sits on the far side of either kind, so our driver picks a route that fits the rig.
That low structure is the Ammo Road bridge over US Hwy 190, which the Federal Highway Administration’s National Bridge Inventory records at 4ft 11in. Any tractor or box truck parked where that is the obvious way out needs a different exit, and a short note from you on where the truck stands lets us plan one.
Construction and freight jobs in Fort Hood
Construction accounts for 208 of the 3,200 jobs located here in 2023, a 6.5 percent share, according to the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts. Contractors’ dump trucks, water trucks and stake beds from that work qualify, and so does a single unit an owner-operator kept for small jobs.
Transportation and Warehousing held 74 jobs, or 2.3 percent of the total, in the same 2023 LEHD release from the Census Bureau. Box trucks, day cabs and straight trucks from delivery and storage work are part of what we collect; have the title, the current registration and the keys together before the driver arrives.
Cattle, corn and wheat in Coryell County
USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 1,435 farms in Coryell County, with cattle, corn and wheat at the top of the list. Livestock haulers, grain trucks and ranch flatbeds parked out on a farm are trucks we pick up where they stand.
Before the pickup, check that the name on the title matches the seller’s, since a ranch truck is often titled to a parent or a partnership. If the title has gone missing, ask the Texas title office for a duplicate, then send us photos of the cab, the bed or box and the VIN plate.
The questions we get asked in Fort Hood
- My dump truck is still at Gibbs Quarry. Must I haul it up to town before you take it?Gibbs Quarry sits 9.9 miles south of town in Mine Safety and Health Administration records, and we collect from the pit itself. Give us the quarry contact and gate hours.
- Will the low Ammo Road bridge stop you reaching my truck?The National Bridge Inventory puts the Ammo Road bridge over US Hwy 190 at 4ft 11in, so tell us where the truck is parked and our driver routes around it.
- Can you collect a cattle trailer rig from a ranch in Coryell County?Coryell County has 1,435 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, with cattle first among them, and ranch trucks are collected on the property where they sit.
- The truck is on a yard near Fort Cavazos. Can you get in?Fort Cavazos is 6.1 miles north-east of town on the Bureau of Transportation Statistics map; name a person who can open the yard and we schedule the pickup around them.