Turner Pit and the gravel plants beyond it
Crushed stone comes out of Turner Pit, which the Mine Safety and Health Administration places 6.5 miles west of Grape Creek, a short run for a loaded tandem dump. A dump truck or end-dump that hauls rock off that pit can be collected at the quarry gate or at your yard in town; tell us which, and who holds the key.
Further out, Mine Safety and Health Administration records place the BRONTE PLANT sand and gravel operation 23 miles north-east and the Mertzon Quarry, another sand and gravel site, 23.7 miles south-west. If your truck splits its week between those two pits, give us the address where it parks on weekends; we can plan the pickup there.
For an aggregate hauler, the paperwork that helps most is the title in your name, the current registration and any scale tickets or service logs you kept. Send daylight photos of the bed, the hoist and the cab with your first message.
Tractors between Grape Creek and the SAN ANGELO yard
Ten miles south-east, the North American Rail Network (Federal Railroad Administration and Bureau of Transportation Statistics) shows a rail yard at SAN ANGELO. Day cabs that shuttle loads between that yard and customers around Tom Green County are trucks we buy, and a tractor parked near the yard can stay there until collection.
The Energy Information Administration lists a petroleum product terminal at SAN ANGELO, 11.8 miles from Grape Creek. If you own a tank truck or a tractor that has pulled fuel trailers out of that terminal, send us the VIN, the tank specification plate photo and the last inspection certificate you hold.
A fuel hauler often lives at a terminal lot rather than at home. Let us know whose property it is on and whether a gate code or an escort is needed, so collection is arranged with the site and not by surprise.
Goodfellow
Box trucks and flatbeds serving Goodfellow
Goodfellow Air Force Base lies 13.3 miles south-east of Grape Creek, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Box trucks and flatbeds that deliver to the base, or to the contractors around it, are part of what we collect from owners in this corner of Tom Green County.
A base pass is not something we ask you to arrange; if the truck sits inside a restricted area, move it to an open lot in San Angelo or Grape Creek and send the new address with your photos and VIN.
Cattle and cotton
Cattle haulers, gin trucks and grain trucks
USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 1,392 farms in Tom Green County, with cattle, cotton and corn as the leading products. Cattle haulers, grain trucks and module trucks from those operations are welcome here, whether they are parked at a barn, a gin or a feedlot.
Farm trucks are often titled to a ranch or partnership instead of a person. Check whose name is on the title before you call; if it has gone missing, the state’s title agency issues the replacement, and we can wait while that comes through.
Seasonal trucks that sat after harvest are fine to sell as they are. Tell us the field road or the yard where the truck stands, and whether a loaded trailer still needs to come off first.
Inspection-stop ages
A 2015 median and a half-and-half fleet
Ninety-three trucks from Grape Creek turned up in FMCSA roadside inspection records over the stretch 2024-10-17 to 2026-08-19, and the middle model year among them was 2015. Just over half of those Grape Creek trucks, 51.6% in the FMCSA roadside inspection records, carried a model year ten or more years back.
Those figures describe a mixed fleet of older and newer equipment, and we take both. Whatever the model year, list it with the make, the engine and the odometer reading in your first message, and attach the registration card.
Construction work is part of the picture too: the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns records 80 construction establishments for the area, and the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts (LODES) show 504 jobs in Grape Creek in 2023. Dump trucks, water trucks and flatbeds from contractors like these can be sold one at a time or as a group.
Clear spans
No low or load-posted spans near Grape Creek
FHWA bridge records for the area around Grape Creek show 17 spans, none of them load-posted and none offering less than 14-foot clearance.
Give us the exact street address or the GPS pin of the truck, plus a phone number for whoever will be on site. With those two things and a clear title, the collection can be planned around your schedule rather than ours.
The questions we get asked in Grape Creek
- Will you pick up a rock truck sitting at Turner Pit west of Grape Creek?Turner Pit is 6.5 miles west of Grape Creek on Mine Safety and Health Administration records, and we can collect it there. Tell us who controls the quarry gate so the pickup is cleared with them.
- Where does a Tom Green County rancher get a lost cattle-truck title reissued?Tom Green County farm trucks are often titled to a ranch, so first confirm the owner of record; then the state’s title agency issues the duplicate in that name.
- Can you reach a truck parked near the San Angelo fuel terminal?The Energy Information Administration places that terminal 11.8 miles south-east of Grape Creek, well within our reach. Send the lot owner’s contact along with the VIN and photos.