Pits and a quarry along the road to Borger
Big Creek Ranch Pit, a sand and gravel operation on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list, lies 8.5 miles east of Fritch, and Crutch Ranch Pit sits farther out at 15.6 miles. A dump truck or tandem that hauls aggregate from either one may well be parked at the pit gate or in a yard near it when you call. Give us that site address rather than a home address, and say whether a pickup truck can reach it on the access road.
Homen Pit, which the Mine Safety and Health Administration records as a crushed-stone quarry, is 19.4 miles east. Rock trucks and end-dump trailers from a quarry often carry the operator’s site records; if you kept load tickets, inspection sheets or service logs for yours, set them with the title so we can read the truck’s working history alongside your photos.
Eleven point seven miles east, the North American Rail Network, kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, places a rail yard at Borger. Tractors that shuttle freight between that yard and Fritch-area customers can be collected right where they sit; send the street location and a clear shot of the VIN plate and the door sticker.
If your tractor pulled a tank trailer out of that terminal, tell us whether the trailer is part of the sale or stays with you, and have the tank’s test paperwork and the tractor’s registration together before we schedule the visit.
Twelve active carriers call Fritch home in FMCSA’s carrier census, and eight of them stay inside Texas while four cross state lines. For an intrastate owner, the Texas registration and the title are usually the only papers we ask to see up front.
Fleets here run small: FMCSA’s census shows the biggest local operation with 4 power units and 3 drivers, and the next two with 2 power units each. Selling one tractor out of a two-truck outfit is a normal request for us; list the unit numbers you plan to part with so the paperwork matches the truck we load.
Driver records filed with FMCSA put 10 drivers working inside a 100-mile radius of Fritch and 14 going past it. A truck that spends its weeks on long runs may be out of town when you reach us, so tell us the date it will be home or the place it will be parked.
Grain, livestock, liquids and general freight
General freight and grain, feed and hay each show up on 5 Fritch carriers’ filings in FMCSA’s carrier census, with liquids and gases and livestock on 4 apiece. Hopper-bottom trailers, cattle pots, tankers and dry vans all fit what we buy; name the trailer type in your first message along with the tractor’s year, make and model.
Hutchinson County counted 167 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, with corn, cattle and cotton as its leading products. A farm truck kept in a barn lot outside Fritch is one we can reach on a rural road; give us the gate directions and the name of whoever will be there to hand over the keys.
Contractor trucks in Hutchinson County
Flatbeds, water trucks and dump bodies from a contractor’s yard come with their own equipment questions, so mention any body, crane or lift mounted on the chassis and whether it goes with the truck.
Contractor trucks around Fritch are often titled to a business rather than a person. If the name on the title is a company, have the signer’s authority in hand, whether that is an officer’s signature or a letter from the owner, before the pickup day.
The Texas Department of Motor Vehicles handles titles through county tax assessor-collector offices, and for Fritch that office is the Hutchinson County Tax Office at 5th & Main, Room 102, Stinnett, TX 79083, which the agency’s listing puts 93.5 miles from town. A missing certificate is replaced there, and a copy can be requested through the agency’s own site.
Start that request before you contact us if the title has gone astray, and keep the receipt. Bring the VIN, your identification and any lien release; if a lender’s name is still printed on the title, that release goes with it on pickup day.
The questions we get asked in Fritch
- Will you collect a truck parked at one of the pits east of Fritch?Big Creek Ranch Pit is 8.5 miles east and Crutch Ranch Pit 15.6 miles east by the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s records, and a truck at either can be collected there. Send the site address and tell us who on site will let us through the gate.