We buy trucks in Kerrville

The stone operation recorded here is the Red Rose Quarry, and the Mine Safety and Health Administration carries it with two employees. Two is small enough that the trucking around it is somebody’s own equipment rather than a contracted fleet.

The second thing on file is an absence, and it is worth stating plainly rather than dressing up. No active aggregate production registration from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality sits within a mile of this location; the nearest one is 3.6 miles away.

That gap has four possible explanations — a lapsed registration, a registration recorded at a different point, an inaccurate coordinate, or an operation that falls outside the definition altogether — and the research behind this page did not establish which. So the honest version is that two registers disagree about where the stone work sits, by about three and a half miles.

That headcount is the part that matters to a seller. A two-person operation in the Kerr County hills does not run a rotating fleet; it runs a small number of trucks a long time, and the person selling one is usually the person who drove it.

Those trucks wear differently from line-haul equipment. Short loaded runs on hill grades put the work into the brakes, the clutch and the rear ends rather than into the odometer, so the mileage on a truck out of a place like the Red Rose Quarry understates what the driveline has done.

None of that counts against a truck here. It is simply the history, and knowing it means we ask better questions than a buyer reading the odometer alone.

Those loads run under one statutory ceiling, and stone is conspicuously absent from the relief.

Texas sets gross weight at 80,000 lb, a single axle at 20,000 lb and a tandem at 34,000 lb — the plain federal figures, with no commodity variance of the kind Georgia and Kentucky grant.

What Texas grants instead is permits, and each is written for a named industry: ready-mixed concrete, fluid milk, timber, and super heavy single-trip. There is no permit named for aggregate, stone, sand or quarry products. A stone hauler here gets the general permit and nothing else, while a ready-mix truck sits on the list — two trades a reader might treat as one, on opposite sides of the line.

The general permit adds ten per cent on the axle and five per cent on gross, and it carries a bond and liability for actual damage to load-restricted roads. On a load-zoned road the permitted weight is ten per cent less than the maximum, so the two percentages run in opposite directions and must never be added together.

Tex. Transp. Code § 621.101; Chapter 623 permits. Information, not legal advice.

Beyond the weight and the permit, the paperwork comes down to one sentence.

Everything after that sentence is a fix rather than a category. A lost title has a counter replacement. Where none exists there is a bonded route. Both are ordinary and neither stops a sale.

One Texas rule is worth knowing because it runs further than any other state on file. Texas brands a truck salvage only where the cost of repairs exceeds the actual cash value before the damage — effectively one hundred per cent, against eighty in Florida and sixty in Oklahoma. And it is a two-part test rather than pure arithmetic: there must also be damage to, or a missing, major component part.

The calculation also leaves out repainting and sales tax, which no other state on file excludes. For a truck whose damage is mostly cosmetic that moves the answer a long way.

Tex. Transp. Code § 501.091. Information, not legal advice, and only as current as the date the rule file was last verified.

All of that equipment is equipment we buy. Dump trucks and aggregate haulers off the Red Rose Quarry work. Flatbeds, day cabs and road tractors, rollbacks, box trucks, straight trucks, service bodies, and the work trucks and pickups that go with a crew.

Kerr County sits on the eastern edge of the hill country, which puts a seller here inside reach of the San Antonio truck market rather than stranded from it.

Whatever you drive, the offer doesn’t change. We buy all of them.

• Does it have to run?No. It does have to be complete — if the engine, transmission, doors, rear ends, drive shafts, wheels or anything under the hood have been removed, we can’t buy it. Rust is not a disqualifier.
• The miles are low but the truck is tired.That is the normal shape of a short-haul truck working the Red Rose Quarry grades and it is not a problem. Tell us the hours if you have them.
• What about the title?We need one unless the truck is old enough that it never had one. Lost titles have a counter replacement; where none exists there’s a bonded route.
• Do you have to come out to look at it?Not necessarily. We can come to you and drive it away, come and tow it, buy it remotely and arrange the tow, or you can drive it to us. Whichever suits the truck and your week. Kerr County and the roads west of it run the same pattern.

Beyond a quarry contract going quiet, the reasons are personal ones. Retiring. A medical that went the wrong way. A truck bought for one job that outlived the job.

Yards around the Red Rose Quarry and out through Kerr County usually have one sitting.

Most of those aren’t happy reasons, and we don’t treat them like they are. Somebody wants a straight answer and the truck gone by the end of the week. That’s what we’re here for.