Hico haulers who move feed and farm supplies
If your truck is a grain hopper tractor, a flatbed set up for round bales or a feed truck, it is likely sitting at a barn or a farm lot rather than a yard in town, and that is where we would collect it.
General freight still leads the declared cargo in Hico, at 21 carriers in FMCSA’s carrier census, so plenty of these trucks do both. Tell us the trailers your tractor has pulled and whether it carries a fifth wheel, a hitch or a dump body, and send a photo of each side plus the cab interior.
Milk, cattle and horses around the town
USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 964 farms across Hamilton County, and it ranks milk first, then cattle, then horses and other equine sales. A truck that has worked the dairies around Hico may be parked at a milking barn or a feed pen; give us the gate details and whether a trailer is still hooked up.
Livestock and dairy work means a truck often has a body or equipment fitted for that job. List what is mounted on the chassis, from a feed body to a gooseneck hitch, and include the VIN plate photo so the specification matches what we see in the pictures.
Gravel to the south-west, stone to the north-east
Dump trucks and end-dump tractors that run gravel out of that pit can be picked up at the quarry gate or at your own shop, whichever is easier for you to arrange.
North-east of town, two more sites appear in Mine Safety and Health Administration records: Mitchell Bend, a dimension-stone quarry 21.2 miles out, and Jackson Plant, a crushed-stone quarry at 22.9 miles. If your truck hauled stone from either one, say which, and send photos of the bed and the hoist along with the odometer reading.
In FMCSA’s carrier census, 33 Hico carriers operate intrastate and 8 cross state lines, while 18 run as private fleets hauling their own goods. A farm or a business that owns one or two trucks can sell one of them to us without any change to how the rest of its operation is registered.
The biggest fleets based here are small, with FMCSA records showing three power units and three drivers at the top, followed by two outfits with two trucks each. Across the nine carriers that reported mileage to FMCSA, the median is 25,000 miles a truck each year; have your current odometer figure ready when you call.
Where a Hico truck may be when you sell
FMCSA’s carrier census splits Hico’s carriers between 29 whose drivers stay within a hundred miles and 33 that send drivers further. A truck on a longer route may be out of town when you decide to sell, so tell us where it will be parked and we will arrange the pickup there.
Lumber is part of the mix as well: nine carriers in Hico declare logs, poles, beams and lumber to FMCSA. Photograph a log trailer or stake-bed truck with the bunks and standards visible, so we can see the full setup.
The Texas Department of Motor Vehicles issues titles through county tax assessor-collector offices, and for Hico that is the Hamilton County Tax Office at 102 N. Rice St, Ste 110, Hamilton, 76531, about 20.2 miles from town by the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles’ listing.
Bring the registration, your photo ID and any lien release to that office. When the paper title is in hand, sign nothing until we have checked the name on it matches the seller, and keep service records with the truck so they travel with it.
The questions we get asked in Hico
- Do you buy trucks that haul hay and grain out of Hico?Grain, feed and hay is the second most declared cargo among Hico carriers in FMCSA’s carrier census, at 19 of 42, and those tractors, flatbeds and hoppers are trucks we buy.
- Can you collect a dump truck at the gravel pit?SRM Hamilton Quarry, listed by the Mine Safety and Health Administration 15 miles south-west of Hico, is a place we can collect from; give us the gate contact and the hours the site is open.
- Where do I get a copy of my title near Hico?About 20.2 miles from Hico, the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles lists the Hamilton County Tax Office, a county tax assessor-collector office, as the place for a title copy.