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

The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists MineralTech Gulf Coast Abrasives as a sand and gravel operation 0.4 miles north of Highlands, with a second pit, Right Way, 1.6 miles east. Dump trucks and end-dump tractors that load at pits this close tend to be parked at home in a driveway or side lot, so give us the street address where yours sits and we will collect it from there.

Houston Mill, which the Mine Safety and Health Administration records as an industrial-mineral mine 5.1 miles north-west, rounds out the list. If your truck has hauled out of any of these three, send a photo of the bed, the tailgate and the plate on the door jamb along with the cab.

Pelican Refining’s petroleum product terminal is 2.3 miles south-west of town on the Energy Information Administration’s list, and the Channelview terminal sits on the same heading at 4.3 miles. Tractors that pull tank trailers between them can be sold from wherever they are staged; send the VIN and tell us whether the trailer goes with the tractor or stays behind.

K-Solv, a liquid bulk terminal 4.1 miles away, appears in the Bureau of Transportation Statistics port records. If your tractor has a site badge or gate access record tied to any of these terminals, keep it with the registration so the history of where it worked is in one folder.

On the North American Rail Network, kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Coady is a rail yard 2.8 miles south-east of Highlands and the ExxonMobil Baytown yard is 5 miles out on the same line of travel. A day cab that shuttles loads to those tracks is a truck we buy; tell us which yard it has worked and whether it is parked inside a fence.

If the truck is behind a gate at either yard, name someone who can let us in. That one contact saves a second trip and keeps the pickup to a single visit.

Eighty-five active carriers are on FMCSA’s carrier census for Highlands; 67 of them run intrastate only, 18 cross state lines and 18 are private fleets. By cargo line on that same FMCSA census, 47 carriers list general freight, 16 metal sheets, coils and rolls, 15 machinery and large objects, and 13 logs, poles, beams and lumber.

Flatbed and step-deck tractors fit the steel, machinery and lumber lines on that census list, and we buy them with the trailer or without it. The FMCSA census shows local fleets of up to 16 power units, with two more at 13, and six new carriers registered in each of 2024 and 2025, so we deal with one-truck owners and small fleets selling several units alike.

Among 19 carriers that report mileage, FMCSA’s census puts the median at 40,000 miles per truck a year. Have the odometer reading ready with the title when you contact us.

FMCSA roadside inspection records for 71 trucks checked here between September 2024 and August 2026 give a median model year of 2017, and 35.2 percent were ten or more years old. Whatever the year on yours, the Texas title in the owner’s name and the current registration are the two papers to find first.

If the title is lost, the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles is the state’s title agency and issues certified copies. Start that request before you contact us so the paperwork is in hand when we come out to Highlands.

The Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts put 2,040 jobs in Highlands in 2023: 694 in manufacturing, 404 in transportation and warehousing, 258 in wholesale trade and 75 in construction. Box trucks and straight trucks that make deliveries for those employers are on our list too, along with tractors.

A contractor parting with a dump truck or a flatbed from one of those outfits should send us the unit number, the VIN and photos of each side, then tell us where on the job site it is parked.

Harris County had 1,531 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, with cattle, equine and potted flowering plants at the top. Livestock haulers and stake-bed trucks from those operations can be collected from the farm gate.

• My dump truck sits beside a sand pit north of Highlands, so does it have to move first?MineralTech Gulf Coast Abrasives is 0.4 miles north of town on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list, and a truck parked near it or at Right Way to the east can be collected where it stands. Tell us the pit’s address and who holds the key to its gate.
• I run a small flatbed fleet hauling steel coils. Will you take more than one tractor?Sixteen Highlands carriers haul metal sheets, coils and rolls on FMCSA’s carrier census, and fleets here run up to 16 power units. List each unit’s VIN and odometer reading and we handle them as one purchase.
• What papers should I gather before you come to Highlands?A Texas title in your name comes first, then the current registration and any service records. If the title is missing, the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles, the state’s title agency, issues a certified copy.