Seventy-nine Friona outfits with a USDOT number
Seventy-nine active trucking outfits give Friona as their home base on FMCSA’s carrier census, from one-truck farm haulers up. If your tractor or straight truck is registered to one of them, or to you as an owner-operator, have the registration and the title in the same name before you call, so the paperwork lines up with whoever signs.
Of those 79 Friona carriers, 49 run intrastate and 30 cross state lines, according to the same FMCSA census, and 34 are private fleets moving their own goods. A farm or feedyard truck that never left Texas is as welcome as an interstate sleeper; tell us which kind it is and which plates it carries.
Six new carriers registered here in 2025 and one in 2024, per FMCSA’s carrier census. If you set up your authority recently and are now selling the equipment, keep the USDOT number handy, since it lets us match the truck to the carrier record.
Hopper and pot loads
Grain, feed, hay and livestock on the Friona rolls
Sixty of Friona’s carriers list grain, feed and hay as cargo in the FMCSA census, 31 list livestock and 29 list farm supplies. Hopper-bottom trailers, cattle pots and the day cabs that pull them all fit what we purchase here; photos of the tractor and of the trailer, if it goes with the sale, help us see the whole unit.
General freight shows up on 33 Friona carrier filings with FMCSA. Box trucks, flatbeds and van tractors from that side of the business are on our list too, and a short note on what the truck usually hauled tells us how it was set up.
Cattle pens and sorghum rows
Cattle, corn and sorghum across Parmer County farms
USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 477 farms in Parmer County, with cattle, corn and sorghum at the top of its list. A truck that spends harvest at an elevator or a pen may be sitting on a farm lot outside Friona when you sell it, and that is fine: give us the road and the gate, and we collect it where it is parked.
Ranch and farm trucks often carry farm plates rather than commercial ones. Whatever the Parmer County truck is registered under, bring the title; if it is lost, the state’s title agency issues a replacement, so start that request before you call us.
Wholesale trade and construction work in Friona
The Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts put 975 jobs in Friona in 2023, of which 171, or 17.5 percent, were in wholesale trade. Delivery trucks and tractors tied to wholesale distribution in town can be sold to us with the same papers as any other truck: title, registration and any service records you keep.
Construction accounted for 54 Friona jobs, 5.5 percent of the 2023 total in LEHD, and County Business Patterns from the Census Bureau lists 5 construction establishments. Dump trucks, flatbeds and water trucks from those outfits qualify, and a list of the body and any attached equipment helps us describe the truck back to you correctly.
Mileage logs, inspection stops
Friona annual miles, driver range and model years
Twenty-eight Friona carriers that file mileage with FMCSA put a typical truck at 22,333 miles a year at the median. The census also records 78 drivers working within 100 miles and 102 going farther. Either way, send the current odometer reading with the VIN when you first get in touch.
Sixty-nine Friona-based trucks were stopped for roadside checks between September 2024 and August 2026, and FMCSA roadside inspection records give them a median model year of 2013, with 65 percent ten or more model years back. Tell us the year, make and model up front, and include the engine and transmission if you know them.
The three biggest fleets based here run 19, 19 and 14 power units, per FMCSA’s census, with 18, 8 and 10 drivers. We buy a single truck or several from one owner, so if you are selling more than one unit, list each VIN and where each one is parked.
The questions we get asked in Friona
- My cattle trailer and tractor are at a pen outside Friona. Do I need to haul them into town?Parmer County has 477 farms on USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, and plenty of trucks here sit on them; we collect from the farm or pen itself. Give us directions and the name of whoever can open the gate.
- The title to my hay and grain hauler has gone missing somewhere on the farm - where does a Friona owner get a duplicate?Titles for a Friona-registered truck come from the state’s title agency, which can issue a duplicate to the owner on record. Put the duplicate request in before the grain truck is collected, and mention on the first call that the paper is on its way.
- My feed truck has Texas intrastate authority only and has never left the state - can Friona’s intrastate haulers still sell?Forty-nine of Friona’s 79 carriers in FMCSA’s census operate intrastate only, so a Texas-only truck is ordinary here and fits what we purchase. Send the registration, the VIN and photos as you would for any other truck.