Hay, freight and heavy machinery out of Gatesville
General freight tops the cargo list for Gatesville, claimed by 59 of the 133 active outfits on FMCSA’s carrier census. If your tractor or box truck ran those loads around Coryell County, have the title and current registration in your name before you call; the name on those two papers is the person who signs the sale.
Grain, feed and hay are listed by 27 Gatesville carriers in the FMCSA census, the same number that list machinery and large objects, while 21 carry farm supplies. A hay hauler with a flatbed or a lowboy that moved equipment between ranches both fit what we collect; photograph the trailer coupling and the deck along with the cab so the listing shows the whole rig.
Of those 133 outfits, the federal census counts 62 as private fleets hauling their own goods rather than for hire. If the truck belonged to a ranch, a feed store or a contractor and was titled to the business, bring the paperwork showing who at that business is allowed to sign.
Short runs around town, longer runs out of the county
Only 23 Gatesville carriers hold interstate authority according to FMCSA’s census, and 110 run inside Texas alone. A truck that never left the state usually carries just Texas registration, so one current registration card is all you need to hand over for it.
Drivers listed with local carriers split two ways in the federal carrier census: 136 work within 100 miles of base and 184 go further. Tell us which pattern your truck followed and where it is parked tonight, whether that is a yard in Gatesville or a lot somewhere along the longer route.
A typical Gatesville rig covers 40,769 miles in a year, the median across 27 local outfits that filed mileage with FMCSA’s carrier census. Have the current odometer reading and the VIN written down before you contact us; those two figures start every conversation about a truck.
Stone hauling east and south-east of Gatesville
The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists Dippel Quarry, a crushed-stone operation 15.3 miles east of Gatesville. Dump trucks and end-dump trailers that hauled aggregate from there can stay parked at the yard; give us the address and a person who can let us through the gate.
Cowart Mine, another crushed-stone quarry on Mine Safety and Health Administration records, lies 16.6 miles south-east of town. If your truck worked between the two pits, keep any scale tickets or site logs with it, since they show where the truck spent its hours better than a photo can.
Toward the post and its rail siding
Fort Cavazos is 15.4 miles south of Gatesville in the Bureau of Transportation Statistics listing of military installations. If your truck is parked off-post near there after you moved for an assignment, you can sell it without driving back; leave a phone number for whoever holds the keys.
A rail yard named FT. HOOD sits 22.4 miles south, as the North American Rail Network shows it. Day cabs that shuttled freight to and from that yard belong on our list; send photos of both sides of the cab and the fifth wheel so the picture of the truck is complete.
How old the trucks inspected here are
Between August 2024 and August 2026, roadside inspectors stopped 76 trucks registered to Gatesville carriers, and FMCSA roadside inspection records put their median model year at 2017.5. Look up your own model year on the title and include it when you write to us.
Just over 42 percent of that Gatesville group, 42.11 percent on the FMCSA roadside inspection records, had a model year ten or more years back. Add any service records you kept, from oil changes to inspection reports, to the file whatever year your truck was built.
Jobs, builders, cattle and open bridges
Gatesville’s 3,484 jobs in 2023, per the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts, included 212 in factories, 124 in wholesale trade and 99 on construction crews. Thirty-nine construction firms are on the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns covering Gatesville. A contractor’s flatbed or dump truck from one of those firms needs its title signed by whoever the business names.
USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture records 1,435 farms in Coryell County, where cattle, corn and wheat lead. A cattle hauler or grain truck parked out on a ranch can be collected there; send the ranch road directions along with the photos.
None of the 18 Gatesville spans on the National Bridge Inventory has a weight posting or a deck so low a tall trailer would scrape under 14 feet. Tell us the trailer type and height anyway, so we bring the right equipment to wherever the truck sits.
The questions we get asked in Gatesville
- My truck sits on a Coryell County ranch; does it have to come into Gatesville first?With 1,435 Coryell County farms counted in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, ranch pickups around Gatesville are routine, and the truck stays on the place until we load it. Give us the ranch road, the pasture or barn where it sits, and who will meet us there.
- Can my dump truck stay parked at Dippel Quarry for pickup?Dippel Quarry is 15.3 miles east of Gatesville on Mine Safety and Health Administration records, and a truck parked there can be collected on site once the operator agrees to let us in.
- I’ve been reassigned away from Fort Cavazos. Can I sell the truck I left behind?Fort Cavazos lies 15.4 miles south of Gatesville per the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, and you can handle the sale from wherever you are now; name someone local who can hand over the keys and the title.
- What paperwork should a Gatesville hay hauler have ready?Hay, grain and feed hauling is listed by 27 Gatesville carriers in FMCSA’s census, and for any of those trucks we ask for the title, current registration, the VIN and the odometer reading.