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

Keene is home base for 38 active motor carriers on FMCSA’s carrier census, a short roster for a Johnson County town. With that few operators, the truck you want to sell is most likely parked at a house, a shop lot or a yard on the edge of town, and that is where we collect it. Send the street address and a note on whether a tractor or tow rig can turn in there.

Of those Keene carriers, 23 tell FMCSA they haul general freight, three carry garbage and refuse, two move farm supplies and two handle household goods. A refuse body, a box truck from a moving outfit and a sleeper that pulled dry vans are all trucks we buy. Write down the body or trailer type along with the VIN so we know what is being collected.

The fleets are small: the three biggest in the carrier census run five, three and three power units. If you are an owner-operator closing out one truck, or a five-truck outfit selling the whole lot, the paperwork is the same for each unit: title, current registration and any service records you kept.

Thirty-one Keene carriers are registered for intrastate operation and six for interstate, according to FMCSA, and six run private fleets hauling their own goods. A truck that stayed inside Texas still needs its Texas title in the seller’s name before collection; if the title is lost, apply to the state’s title agency for a duplicate first.

Note the odometer reading in a photo of the dash when you send us the VIN; it settles the first question we ask.

Two new carriers registered in Keene during 2025 and one in 2024, per the FMCSA census. If your authority is new and you are selling a truck bought for it, keep the bill of sale with the title, since the transfer record shows the chain from the last owner to you.

Just 4.1 miles south-west of Keene, toward Cleburne, the North American Rail Network maps the CLEBURNE rail yard. Day cabs and straight trucks that shuttle loads to and from a rail yard are part of what we purchase; if yours is parked near the yard rather than at home, tell us whose property it is on so the pickup can be cleared with them.

Six point nine miles west of town, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics lists Carry Transit as a liquid bulk terminal. If your tractor pulled tank trailers in and out of there, say whether the trailer is part of the sale or stays behind, and send photos of the fifth wheel and the tractor’s plate.

Alvarado Sand and Gravel is 4.8 miles north-east of Keene, and a second sand and gravel operation sits 5.4 miles east, both on Mine Safety and Health Administration rolls. Dump trucks, end dumps and belly-dump tractors that worked those pits can be collected right at the pit gate or at the owner’s yard; give us a gate contact if it is the pit.

Farther out, MSHA records two cement plants around 18 to 19 miles away, the Midlothian Quarry and Plant to the east and Ash Grove Cement Company to the north-east. Mixers and bulk pneumatic tankers that ran to those kilns are trucks we buy; list any mixer drum or blower equipment on the truck so the description matches the photos.

South-west of Keene, the Mine Safety and Health Administration also lists two crushed-stone quarries, Plant & Quarry at 18.2 miles and the Nemo Plant at 18.3 miles. If a rock truck is parked at one of those sites, it can stay there; we arrange collection with the operator on site.

Johnson County holds 2,745 farms on USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, and cattle lead its products, followed by milk and then corn. Livestock haulers, bulk milk tractors and grain trucks from those farms belong on the list of what we purchase, and we collect from the farm itself.

For a farm truck, the title and registration still have to match the person signing. If the truck is titled to a farm partnership or a family member, sort out who signs before we schedule collection, and have photos taken in daylight showing the cab, frame and bed or tank.

Of the 25 bridges the National Bridge Inventory records around Keene, none is load-posted and none has clearance under 14 feet. A lowboy or rollback can reach most addresses in town, so tell us about gates, soft ground or tight turns at the property itself rather than the route.

In 2023 the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts recorded 1,390 jobs in Keene, 199 of them in manufacturing (14.3 percent) and 70 in transportation and warehousing (5 percent). County Business Patterns lists three construction establishments in town. A truck kept at a plant or contractor’s yard is collected from there, with someone on hand to open the gate.

• Can you pick up an end dump still sitting inside Alvarado Sand and Gravel’s gate?Alvarado Sand and Gravel sits 4.8 miles north-east of Keene by the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s listing, and we collect there. Give us the name of someone at the pit who can let the truck out.
• My Keene-registered tractor’s title went missing; how do I replace it before selling?A Keene truck registered in Texas needs a duplicate from the state’s title agency before collection. Apply for it first, then send us the VIN and photos while you wait.
• Will you buy a refuse truck or a moving van, not just tractors?Three Keene carriers in FMCSA’s census haul garbage and refuse and two move household goods, and those body types are trucks we purchase. Send the VIN, body type and a few photos to start.
• Do you collect from farms outside town?Johnson County has 2,745 farms on USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, and a truck on any of them is collected where it sits. Tell us the farm road and where the truck is parked on the property.