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

The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists a crushed-stone quarry under the Marble Falls name 4.1 miles east of Granite Shoals, with Michel Mine, another crushed-stone site, 5.1 miles out on the same side. A dump truck or end-dump tractor that has hauled aggregate from either one may well be parked at a yard along that short eastern stretch, so give us the exact address and a name for whoever holds the gate key.

Sunset Quarries, a dimension-stone operation, is 5.7 miles east on Mine Safety and Health Administration records, and Cordova Quarry, also cut stone, lies 20.8 miles in that direction. Block and slab loads ride on flatbeds and heavy-haul trailers rather than in dump bodies, so tell us whether you are selling the tractor alone or the trailer with it, and send a photo of each VIN plate.

Eagle’s Nest Mine, which the Mine Safety and Health Administration lists as a sand and gravel operation, is 11.2 miles north of town. If your truck spends its days between that pit and nearby job sites, we can collect it at the pit lot, at your house or at the last site it worked, whichever is easiest to reach.

Gravel trucks often change hands between small owners several times, so check that the Texas title in the drawer carries your name before you call. If it still shows a previous owner, or the title has gone missing, start the transfer or replacement with the state’s title agency before collection day.

FMCSA’s carrier census counts 19 active motor carriers based in Granite Shoals; 10 of them list general freight and 7 list machinery and large objects. A lowboy or step-deck rig that has moved excavators and loaders between job sites is a truck we buy, so photograph the registration card and any annual inspection reports before you call.

Of those 19 carriers, the federal census shows 18 hauling intrastate only and 1 registered for interstate work, while 10 are private fleets hauling their own goods. Three Granite Shoals carriers report farm supplies and two report garbage and refuse, so a feed hauler or a roll-off truck from a local outfit is just as welcome as a tractor.

On FMCSA’s census, the three biggest operations in town run 17, 11 and 8 power units, each with 4 drivers on file. An owner selling several units out of a yard that size can send the full list of VINs at once, and we will arrange to see them where they stand.

Drivers working for Granite Shoals carriers mostly stay local: FMCSA’s census logs 25 of them operating within 100 miles of base and 9 going beyond that radius. A truck kept on short Burnet County runs usually comes home each night, so tell us whether it sits in your driveway, a shop bay or a lot off the highway.

For the long-radius drivers in that same FMCSA count, the truck may be out on the road when you decide to sell. Let us know the city where it will be parked next and when, and pull together the registration, any service records and clear photos of the cab, frame and tires before we talk.

The Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts put 390 jobs in Granite Shoals in 2023, and construction accounts for 212 of them, a 54.4 percent share. Dump trucks, water trucks, service bodies and flatbeds that work on building crews here are all trucks we buy, whether they are titled to a company or to you personally.

If a builder’s truck is titled to a business, the person signing the Texas title has to be someone the company authorizes. Have that signer named before collection day, along with the current registration and the keys for every truck you plan to sell.

USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 1,428 farms in Burnet County, with cattle, goats and equine listed as its top livestock. Livestock haulers, flatbeds that carry hay and feed, and ranch trucks that pull stock trailers all qualify, and a ranch gate outside Granite Shoals is a perfectly good collection point.

Ranch trucks are sometimes registered to a family member or the ranch itself rather than the driver. Find the name printed on the title and registration, and if those do not match whoever is selling, sort out the signature with that owner before we schedule the pickup.

• Is a private-fleet truck from a Granite Shoals business something you take?Ten of the 19 active carriers that FMCSA’s carrier census places in Granite Shoals are private fleets hauling their own goods, and their trucks are welcome here. Send the VIN, the title holder’s name and a few photos of each truck you want to sell.
• Will you look at a livestock or feed truck from a ranch outside town?Burnet County holds 1,428 farms on USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, led by cattle, goats and horses, and ranch trucks from any of them are ones we buy. Give us directions to the ranch gate and the name on the title.