Sell your semi truck for cash in Gordon the easy and convenient way

The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists Premium Sandstone Quarry, a crushed-stone site, and Gordon Stone Company, a dimension-stone operation, each just 0.2 miles north-west of Gordon. A dump truck or flatbed that loads sandstone there may well be sitting inside a quarry gate when you call us, so give us the name of whoever can let a driver through.

East of town, Pit 1 is another dimension-stone quarry 2.2 miles out, listed by the Mine Safety and Health Administration. Cut blocks leave those benches on flatbeds and stepdecks; if that is the work your truck has done, send photos of the deck, the tie-down points and the cab, and tell us which pit it served.

Twelve point seven miles north of Gordon, per the Mine Safety and Health Administration, sits Gordon Plant, a crushed-stone quarry under its own name. A tractor or end-dump hauling aggregate from that plant may be kept nearer to it than to town; we collect from wherever it is parked, so tell us the road and the nearest gate.

Have the VIN, the odometer reading and any service log ready before we talk. Stone hauling across both directions from Gordon means the same truck may have worked several sites, and a short list of which ones helps us ask the right questions the first time.

Of the 23 motor carriers FMCSA’s carrier census lists as active with a Gordon address, eleven name general freight among their loads. Three carry machinery and large objects, another three move motor vehicles, and two haul grain, feed and hay. Whether yours is a box truck, a car hauler or a hopper rig, the paperwork we ask for is the same: the title, current registration and photos of each side.

Of those carriers, the federal census counts 18 as intrastate only and 5 as interstate, with 8 running private fleets for their own goods. If your truck never left Texas, its registration and Texas title are all the state-side papers we need to start.

The biggest fleet registered in Gordon, on FMCSA’s carrier census, runs 8 power units with 6 drivers; the next has 5 units and 5 drivers, and a third has 3 of each. An owner selling one tractor out of three or five can list each unit’s VIN separately and we will look at them one by one or together.

Gordon trucks log a median of 33,333 miles a year apiece, going by the five local carriers that filed mileage with FMCSA. Drivers reported to the federal census split 27 working within 100 air miles and 18 beyond it, so a Gordon truck may be parked at home or out on a longer run when you decide to sell; tell us where it is that week.

Gordon’s farm economy is spread across 1,147 farms in Palo Pinto County, counted by USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, where cattle, equine and goats lead the livestock. Stock trailers, flatbeds for hay and feed trucks working those places are trucks we buy, and they are often parked out on a pasture rather than a lot.

If yours is on a ranch outside Gordon, a gate code or a phone number for whoever is on the place lets us plan the collection. Photos of the tires, frame and cab sent in daylight show us the truck without anyone having to move it first.

Texas titles are issued by the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles through county tax assessor-collector offices, and for Gordon that is the Palo Pinto County Tax Office at the Courthouse, Rm 107, 520 Oak, Palo Pinto, 76484, about 15.8 miles away. A seller missing a title can request a certified copy there before we collect.

Bring the VIN and your photo ID to the Palo Pinto courthouse; if a lender is still listed, a lien release goes with it. Once the copy is in hand, the title and registration together are what we need at pickup in Gordon.

• My dump truck is parked inside a quarry near Gordon. Can you get it out?Premium Sandstone Quarry and Gordon Stone Company sit 0.2 miles north-west of town on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list, and we collect trucks from sites like these. Name the quarry, the person holding the gate key and the spot on the bench where the truck sits.
• The title for my Gordon stepdeck is lost - where in Palo Pinto County do I get a copy?The Palo Pinto County Tax Office, at the Courthouse, Rm 107, 520 Oak in Palo Pinto, about 15.8 miles from Gordon, handles titles for the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles. Take the VIN and your ID to request a certified copy.
• Three of my Gordon tractors are surplus now. Can one pickup trip clear the lot of them from my yard?Gordon’s largest registered fleet runs 8 power units on FMCSA’s carrier census, and owners of fleets that size can send us every VIN at once. We look at each truck and arrange the collections together.