We buy trucks in Garden Ridge

One extraction row attaches here. The Lion Cave Materials Briggs Pit is carried as crushed and broken limestone, operator of record Lion Cave Materials, with six employees reported to MSHA.

The registration nearest it does not agree about the rock. AP0003398 sits 0.55 miles away under the site name Briggs Pit, with a current expiry of 23 October 2026, and its material type reads gravel, sand and soil rather than crushed limestone. Same pit name, two records, two materials.

At 0.55 miles that registration is recorded as the nearest active one rather than as this site’s own, so it cannot be used to correct the row and we are not using it that way. What it does is put a question against the commodity, and a question is what we are handing you rather than a resolution the records do not support.

That disagreement between the two records is not academic once a truck is involved.

Crushed limestone is blasted, crushed and screened: dry, angular and abrasive, and it wears a body through scouring. Gravel, sand and soil are dug and screened: rounder, wetter, heavier for their volume when saturated, and they stick. A body floor, a tailgate seal and a belly-dump gate that have run wet material look different from ones that have run dry rock, and the difference is visible.

So on a truck out of Comal County we ask what it actually carried rather than reading it off the row, and where the records disagree the truck itself is the better evidence. This is also metro-edge ground — the county carries 14 rows including nine crushed stone operations, two cement plants and a dimension stone site — so short delivery runs into the San Antonio side are the ordinary pattern, and loading cycles accumulate faster than miles.

Whichever of the two materials it is, the load runs under a single ceiling.

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. Aggregate, stone, sand and quarry products are named nowhere on it, so both readings of this pit land in the same place: the general Chapter 623 route. The two cement plants in this county, by contrast, put ready-mix trucks on the road that do sit on the list.

That general 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, where the paint is the first thing the work takes, that exclusion moves the answer a long way.

This county is not on the Texas emissions inspection programme list today. Neighbouring Bexar County joins it on 1 November 2026, which changes what a seller might assume rather than what they owe — diesel vehicles are not required to be emissions-inspected in Texas at all.

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, belly dumps and end dumps off the pit work. Flatbeds and stake beds, day cabs and road tractors, water trucks, rollbacks, box trucks, straight trucks, service bodies, and the crew pickups behind them.

We buy all of them. Garden Ridge sits on the edge of the metro, 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 driving it to us stays open too. The Lion Cave Materials Briggs Pit is one of 14 rows across Comal County, nine of which are crushed stone.

• 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.
• How quickly can you get here?Garden Ridge 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 Briggs Pit limestone or gravel?The two records disagree. The row says crushed limestone; registration AP0003398, 0.55 miles off under the same pit name, says gravel, sand and soil. It is recorded as the nearest active registration rather than as that site’s own, so neither of us can close it and we would rather say so.
• My body has run wet material.Then the floor, the gate and the seals are what we look at, not the mileage. Wet gravel and sand stick and carry water weight, so they work a body far harder than dry crushed rock does.
• Do I need an emissions test to sell it?No. Diesel vehicles are exempt from Texas emissions inspection, and Comal County is not on the programme list. Bexar County joins the list on 1 November 2026, which still would not reach a diesel truck.
• 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 job that finished, or a contractor who has grown out of one truck and into another and needs the first one gone. On the metro edge there is another: ground that carried a six-person pit like the Lion Cave Materials one gets built on eventually, and equipment sized for the pit does not fit whatever comes next.

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 Garden Ridge and across Comal County.