Junction’s own trucks
Junction’s entry in FMCSA’s carrier census lists 38 active motor carriers. Most of them are small outfits, so if you are selling one tractor or straight truck from a ranch yard or a home lot, that is the kind of sale we handle here, and we come out to where the truck is parked.
Of those carriers, 34 run intrastate and only 4 are listed for interstate work, according to the same FMCSA census. A truck that has stayed inside Texas will usually carry Texas registration only, so have that registration card and the title together before you call, and tell us the address where it sits.
Private fleets account for 23 of the Junction registrations in FMCSA’s census, meaning businesses that move their own goods rather than freight for hire. If your truck hauled for your own ranch, store or contracting work, tell us what it carried and send photos of the cab, frame and body so we know what is coming.
Feed, hay, livestock country
Cattle, goats and sheep on the ranches
Around Junction and across Kimble County, USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 619 farms, with cattle, goats and sheep the leading livestock. Stock trailers, flatbeds and feed trucks that serve those operations are often parked out on a ranch, and we can collect from a pasture gate as readily as from a paved lot.
Twelve Junction carriers list grain, feed and hay as a cargo, by FMCSA’s census, and another nine list farm supplies. If your truck has hauled hay bales or feed between ranches, give us the VIN, the odometer reading and a clear photo of the bed or trailer hitch so the details match before pickup.
On ranch land, tell us whether a gate needs opening, who holds the key, and whether the road in is gravel. Those three answers let us plan the collection without a second trip out from town.
Equipment haulers and mixed loads around Junction
General freight is the cargo listed most often, by 20 Junction carriers in FMCSA’s census, and 12 more list machinery and large objects. Lowboys, flatbeds and day cabs that move equipment around Junction all fit what we purchase, with or without the trailer.
Kimble County has 15 construction establishments on the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns, many of them working near Junction. A dump truck or equipment hauler retired from building work in Junction can be sold as it sits; have the title, any service records you kept and photos of each side of the truck ready.
If the truck is still coupled to a trailer you plan to keep, say so at the start. We will arrange the collection for the tractor alone and leave the trailer with you.
Short-haul trucks that stay close to home
Junction carriers report 45 drivers working within a hundred-mile radius and 37 driving farther out, according to FMCSA’s carrier census. Whichever pattern your truck followed, tell us where it ends its week, since that is where we will collect it.
A median of 23,936 miles per truck comes from the six Junction carriers that filed annual mileage with FMCSA’s carrier census. That figure is simply a record of use; when you contact us, give us your own odometer reading so we start from the actual number.
The biggest fleet in town runs 14 power units with 6 drivers, and the next two run 7 trucks each, per FMCSA’s census. Selling more than one unit from a fleet that size is straightforward: send a list of the VINs and the yard address, and we will work through them together.
Steady registrations
Recent starters and the county’s workforce
Three new carriers registered in Junction during 2024 and three more in 2025, by FMCSA’s census. If you started hauling recently and are now stepping back, a truck bought only a year or two ago sells the same way; the title in your name is what we need first.
Across Kimble County, the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts put total employment at 897 in 2023. In a town this size, the truck you are selling may have doubled as a work truck and a hauler, so describe how it was used and we will ask the rest.
College Street
The tax office on College Street
The Texas Department of Motor Vehicles handles titles through county tax assessor-collector offices, and in Junction that is the Kimble County Tax Office at 509 College Street, 0.5 miles from the center of town. If the title is lost or still shows an old lien, a visit there is the step to take before the sale.
Bring photo identification and the VIN when you go to the College Street office, and if a lender once held the title, bring the lien release too. Once the Texas title is in your name and clear, send us a photo of the front and back and we will set up collection.
The questions we get asked in Junction
- Can you pick up a truck sitting on a goat or cattle ranch near Junction?Kimble County has 619 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, and plenty of trucks here sit on ranch land, so we come to the ranch. Give us the gate location, a contact who can let us in, and the road surface.
- Which Junction office reissues a missing title?The Kimble County Tax Office at 509 College Street, half a mile from town, handles titles for the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles. Take your ID and the VIN, and the lien release if a lender was ever listed on the title.
- My rig never left Texas on a job; is an intrastate-only truck a problem to sell from Junction?Thirty-four of Junction’s 38 carriers in FMCSA’s census operate intrastate only, so a Texas-only truck is common here. Put its Texas title and current registration card together before you call us about the Junction pickup.