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Glen Rose sits among stone quarries and sand and gravel pits, with the Jackson Plant crushed-stone quarry 1.6 miles south-west of town on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list. The dump trucks, flatbeds and livestock haulers that serve those pits and the ranches around them are the trucks we collect here.

Selling a truck in Glen Rose? Tell us about it and we'll take it from there.

Six sites in nine miles

Quarries ringing Glen Rose on every side

Within nine miles of the courthouse square, the Mine Safety and Health Administration records six working sites: the Jackson Plant, M&W Ranch 2.8 miles east, GCH Materials 4 miles north-east, Mitchell Bend 6.3 miles south, Imperial Products Supply Granbury 6.7 miles north and the Nemo Plant 9 miles east. A tri-axle or end dump that hauls aggregate out of any of them can stay parked at the pit while we arrange collection; tell us which gate it sits behind.

Mitchell Bend and the Imperial Products Supply yard toward Granbury cut dimension stone rather than crushed rock, according to the same federal mine agency. Stone slabs usually leave on flatbeds and step-decks, so if yours carried block or slab, send photos of the deck, the tie-down points and the data plate on the door jamb.

Mining, quarrying and oil and gas extraction account for 80 of the 2,457 jobs counted in town for 2023 by the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts, a 3.3 percent share. Those crews lean on haul trucks and service bodies, and either kind can be sold from the quarry floor if the site lets a tow vehicle in.

Thirty-six stay in-state

Forty-two trucking outfits on the federal register

FMCSA’s carrier census lists 42 active carriers based in Glen Rose, and 36 of them stay inside Texas while only 6 cross state lines. Most trucks here therefore carry Texas registration and stay close to home, which makes the paperwork for a sale straightforward: a Texas title, the registration sticker record and the cab card.

Twenty of those 42 operate as private fleets hauling their own goods, on the same federal carrier census. A contractor or ranch that owns a single truck for its own work can sell it exactly as a for-hire carrier would; have the title in the business name and someone authorised to sign it.

Fleet sizes stay modest: the three biggest operations in town run 13, 11 and 10 power units, per FMCSA’s carrier census. If you are thinning a small fleet, list each VIN with its unit number and yard location, and we can plan one collection trip for several trucks.

Hay and lowboys

Lowboy loads and round bales around Glen Rose

General freight is the most common cargo among local carriers, with 17 listing it, followed by machinery and large objects at 12, grain, feed and hay at 7 and farm supplies at 6, as FMCSA’s carrier census records them. Lowboys and heavy-haul tractors that move equipment between job sites are as welcome as box trucks and hay trailers.

Somervell County holds 320 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, where cattle, goats and sheep lead the sales. Gooseneck stock trailers, feed trucks and flatbeds stacked with round bales are part of that picture; if your truck spends its days in a pasture, give us the ranch road and a gate code.

Job-site rigs

Twenty-three contractors and their dump trucks

County Business Patterns from the Census Bureau counts 23 construction establishments in the area, and the LEHD job counts put construction at 150 jobs, or 6.1 percent of local employment in 2023. Dump trucks, water trucks and flatbed service rigs on those crews can be collected straight from a job site once the work is done.

Transportation and warehousing make up 76 local jobs and manufacturing 57, on the Census Bureau’s LEHD counts for the same year. Whichever trade your truck served, keep its service log and any annual inspection reports together; they show us what it has done without anyone needing to be on site.

A 2017 median on the roadside inspection log

Of 45 trucks from Glen Rose carriers stopped between September 2024 and August 2026, FMCSA roadside inspection records show a median model year of 2017, with 40 percent ten or more years old. We collect across that whole spread, so the model year alone never decides whether to reach out.

Ten local carriers reported mileage to the federal register, and their median comes to 7,833 miles per truck a year on FMCSA’s carrier census. Read the odometer and photograph it with the ignition on, and add that photo to the set of the cab, frame and tires.

Vine Street

The tax office a mile from the square

The Texas Department of Motor Vehicles handles titles through county tax assessor-collector offices, and for Glen Rose that is the Somervell County Tax Office at 102 NE Vine St, Glen Rose, 76043, 1.1 miles from town. If the title is missing, request a certified copy there before we schedule collection.

A lien on the title needs a release from the lender, which the same Vine Street counter can record on the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles file. Bring your ID and the release letter, and keep the stamped receipt to show us.

Beyond the county line

Rail at Cleburne and bulk liquids to the north-east

Drive 22.8 miles east of Glen Rose and you reach the CLEBURNE rail yard, a site the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics map on the North American Rail Network. A day cab that shuttles loads to that yard can be collected in Cleburne just as easily as at home.

Carry Transit, a liquid bulk terminal 21.2 miles north-east on the Bureau of Transportation Statistics list, draws tank trucks out of the area. For a tanker, tell us the last product carried and whether the barrel has been washed out, and have the tank test certificate on hand.

The questions we get asked in Glen Rose

  • Will you collect an end dump sitting at the Nemo Plant or another Glen Rose pit?Six quarries and gravel pits sit within nine miles of town on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list, and we collect from sites like those. Name the quarry and the foreman who controls the scale-house gate.
  • The title to my Somervell County truck has gone missing - which counter on Vine Street fixes that?The Somervell County Tax Office at 102 NE Vine St, 1.1 miles from town, issues certified copies for the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles. Get the copy before collection day.
  • Is a ranch flatbed that only moves my own hay and goats near Glen Rose something you collect?Twenty of the 42 Glen Rose carriers on FMCSA’s carrier census are private fleets moving their own goods, and ranch trucks like yours are part of what we collect. A VIN and a few pasture-side photos open the conversation.

Sell your truck in Glen Rose

From the quarries around Glen Rose to the rail yard at Cleburne and the bulk terminal to the north-east, we collect trucks across Somervell County and its neighbours.