Rigs and pipe
Oilfield equipment, machinery and general freight
Of the 99 Jacksboro-area operations in FMCSA’s carrier census, 38 list oilfield equipment as cargo, 36 list general freight and 29 list machinery or large objects. A winch tractor, a lowboy rig or a bed truck that has moved rigs and pipe around Jack County fits squarely in what we collect. Before you contact us, write down the tractor’s VIN and the trailer’s VIN if you are selling both, since one hauler often runs them as a pair.
Mining, quarrying and oil and gas extraction account for 136 of the county’s 1,351 jobs in 2023, a 10.1 percent share by the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts. If your truck worked lease roads, tell us which lease or yard it is parked at and who holds the gate key, and we will plan the collection around that site rather than asking you to move it.
Dump trucks from the two stone pits near town
The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists Richard’s Pit, a crushed-stone quarry 1.3 miles south-west of Jacksboro, and Springfield Pit, another crushed-stone quarry 2.1 miles south-east. Dump trucks and end-dump tractors that hauled rock from either pit can be collected from the quarry lot itself if the operator allows access, so ask the site office before we arrange a date.
Jack County also has 22 construction establishments, according to County Business Patterns from the Census Bureau. If your dump truck split its time between a pit and a building site, have the title and current registration in one folder, plus any service records, and send photos of the bed, the hoist and the cab so the description and pictures line up.
Hay and grain hauling
Cattle, wheat and horses across Jack County
Jack County holds 889 farms, and cattle, wheat and horses lead them, per USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture. Twenty-one Jacksboro carriers in FMCSA’s carrier census name grain, feed or hay as cargo, so a straight truck with a grain bed or a tractor that pulled a hay trailer is a familiar sight here.
A farm truck is often registered to a ranch rather than a person, so check whose name is on the title before you reach out. If the name on the title is a ranch partnership or an estate, the state’s title agency will want paperwork showing who can sign, and having that sorted early keeps the sale simple.
In-state outfits and haulers of their own goods
Eighty-one of the 99 operations in FMCSA’s carrier census are intrastate, 18 are interstate, and 54 are private fleets hauling their own goods. If your truck only ever ran inside Texas, it may carry state registration without interstate apportioned plates; tell us which plates are on it so we know which papers to expect.
Twenty-four Jacksboro operations report yearly mileage in FMCSA’s carrier census, and their middle figure lands at 20,750 miles a truck. FMCSA’s carrier census also shows 128 drivers working within 100 miles and 204 beyond that radius. A truck based here may be parked well outside the county when you sell it, so give us that address, not the home office.
Between September 2024 and August 2026, inspectors stopped 81 trucks belonging to Jacksboro outfits; FMCSA roadside inspection records put the middle model year at 2016 and 49.4 percent at ten model years or older. Whatever the year on your title, bring the registration card and the most recent inspection report so the details match the truck.
At the top end, Jacksboro’s leading three operations field 25, 18 and 17 power units on FMCSA’s carrier census. If you are thinning out a yard of that size, list each unit’s VIN, year and make in one sheet and note which ones share a lot, and we can plan to collect several trucks from one stop.
Newer operators and owner-operators
Four Jacksboro outfits took out fresh USDOT registrations in 2025 and three did in 2024, by FMCSA’s carrier census. An owner-operator closing out a single truck is selling on the same terms as a fleet, and the papers are the same: the title, the registration, and your USDOT number if the truck was operated under your own authority.
If the title has gone missing, the state’s title agency issues a replacement, so request one before we schedule anything. Photos of the VIN plate on the door jamb and the odometer reading help us confirm the truck while that request is under way.
The questions we get asked in Jacksboro
- Which papers matter for a rig that hauled on Jack County oil leases?Thirty-eight local operations in FMCSA’s carrier census list oilfield equipment as cargo, so trucks like yours are common here. Have the title, the registration, any service records and the lease or yard address where the truck now sits.