Young County
Three pits, one family company
Three crushed-stone operations attach here and all three belong to the same business. Zack Burkett Company holds the Leach Pit at 13 employees, the Mayo Pit at 9 and Richard’s Pit at 5.
Two of them are rated for highway work. The state highway department carries the Leach and the Mayo sources in its rated catalogue, each with its own producer code and a surface aggregate classification behind it.
The same company runs a fourth pit over in Jack County, at Jacksboro. So this is a regional operator with several small sites rather than one large quarry with a single gate.
So the trucks here move between pits rather than out of one
That several-sites-one-owner pattern is what shapes the work. A fleet serving four pits is not a fleet doing one loop.
It means trucks get shifted to wherever the work is that week, running loaded one way and often empty back, and picking up highway miles that a single-pit truck never would.
A Zack Burkett truck therefore tends to have more mileage and less pounding than an equivalent one at a big fixed quarry, and its body usually outlives its odometer. The Leach Pit and the Mayo Pit are two stops on the same round.
Texas weight law
One ceiling, and a permit list that skips stone
All of that runs under one statutory ceiling, and stone is not on the relief list.
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, and each one is written for a named industry: ready-mixed concrete, fluid milk, timber, and super heavy single-trip. There is no permit named for aggregate, stone, sand or quarry products. So a stone hauler here gets the general permit and nothing else, while a ready-mix truck sits on the list — two trades a reader might treat as one, on opposite sides of the line.
The general permit adds ten per cent on the axle and five per cent on gross, and it comes with a bond and liability for actual damage to load-restricted roads. 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.
Texas paperwork
We need a title — unless it never had one
Beyond the weight rules, the paperwork comes down to one 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.
One Texas rule is worth knowing because it runs further than any other state on file. Texas brands a truck salvage only where the cost of repairs exceeds the actual cash value before the damage — effectively one hundred per cent, against eighty in Florida and sixty in Oklahoma. And it is a two-part test, not pure arithmetic: there must also be damage to, or a missing, major component part.
The statute lists thirteen major component parts, and the calculation leaves out repainting and sales tax, which no other state on file excludes. For a truck whose damage is mostly cosmetic that moves the answer a long way.
Tex. Transp. Code § 501.091. Information, not legal advice, and only as current as the date the rule file was last verified.
What we buy here
All of that iron is iron we buy. Dump trucks and aggregate haulers off the Leach Pit and the Mayo Pit. Lowboys and the tractors that move plant between sites. Day cabs, flatbeds, rollbacks, box trucks, straight trucks, service bodies, and the work trucks and pickups that go with a crew.
A company running four pits across Young County and Jack County turns equipment over steadily rather than all at once.
Whatever you drive, the offer doesn’t change. We buy all of them.
We buy complete trucks. If the engine, transmission, doors, rear ends, drive shafts, wheels or anything under the hood have been removed, we can’t buy it. Small things — a missing bumper — are fine.
Straight answers
The questions we get asked in Graham
- 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.
- It worked several pits rather than one.That is the normal shape of a Zack Burkett truck. More miles, less pounding — tell us both and we will take it from there.
- The box is beaten up but the driveline is good.Common on Leach Pit and Mayo Pit equipment and not a problem.
- 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.
- Do you have to come out to look at it?Not necessarily. We can come to you and drive it away, come and tow it, buy it remotely and arrange the tow, or you can drive it to us. Whichever suits the truck and your week.
Why people call
Beyond a pit contract ending, the reasons are personal ones. Retiring. A medical that went the wrong way. A truck bought for one job that outlived the job.
Yards around Richard’s Pit and across Young County usually have one waiting, and the Jack County end sees its share.
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.