Private fleets and Texas-only haulers on Kingsville roads
FMCSA’s carrier census counts 129 active motor carriers based in Kingsville, and 116 of them are registered intrastate against 13 that cross state lines. For most sellers here, that means the truck has spent its working life on Texas roads and carries Texas registration, so have the Texas title and current registration card in the cab when you send us the VIN.
Of those Kingsville carriers, 38 are private fleets hauling their own goods rather than freight for hire, according to the same federal census. If your tractor or straight truck belonged to a farm, a contractor or a supply yard rather than a carrier, tell us the business name on the title so the paperwork lines up with whoever signs it over.
The three biggest fleets registered in town run 48, 24 and 17 power units, with 30, 23 and 14 drivers, per FMCSA. If you are retiring one or two units from a small operation, list each VIN separately and we will collect them from the same yard.
Lowboys, oilfield rigs and grain hoppers
Sixty of the Kingsville carriers in FMCSA’s census list general freight, 32 list machinery and large objects, 29 list oilfield equipment and 21 list grain, feed and hay. A truck from the machinery or oilfield side often carries a winch, a gin pole or a lowboy setup; photograph that equipment along with the cab and the frame rails so we see the whole unit.
Grain, feed and hay hauling sits beside the farm figures for Kleberg County: USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture records 380 farms in the county, with cattle, cotton and sorghum leading. If your truck is a grain hopper tractor or a cattle-hauling rig parked out on a ranch road, send us the gate location and a phone number for whoever holds the key.
On oilfield work, the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts put 54 Kingsville jobs in mining, quarrying and oil and gas extraction in 2023. Kingsville trucks that served lease roads and well sites are welcome; tell us the last site the truck worked and where it sits today, since that is where we will pick it up.
Construction and the farm economy
LEHD job counts from the Census Bureau show 8,493 jobs in Kingsville in 2023, including 322 in manufacturing, 253 in agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting, and 175 in construction. Dump trucks, flatbeds and service bodies tied to that construction and farm work are part of what we buy here.
Twenty-two construction firms operate around Kingsville on the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns tally. If your dump truck or crane truck came out of one of those contractors, keep the bill of sale or the transfer record with the title; it shows the chain of ownership when the name on the title is a company and not you.
From the air station to the Mother Earth pit
Naval Air Station Kingsville lies 3.1 miles east of town on the Bureau of Transportation Statistics list of installations, and King Ranch is 15.2 miles west on the same list. A truck parked behind a fence near either one needs an address and a contact who can grant entry; give us both in your first message.
Mother Earth, a sand and gravel operation 18.4 miles north-east of Kingsville, appears in the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s records. Aggregate haulers and end-dump tractors that worked that pit can stay where they are parked. Give us the pit road or the yard where it waits, and the pickup happens there.
Tractor vintages from Kingsville-based roadside inspections
Across 101 Kingsville-based trucks inspected at the roadside between September 2024 and August 2026, FMCSA roadside inspection records give a median model year of 2017, with 48.5 percent of them ten or more model years old. Whatever model year yours is, put it in your message along with the engine make, the transmission and the odometer reading.
Twenty-two Kingsville carriers report mileage to FMCSA, and their median comes to 18,500 miles per truck a year. In FMCSA’s figures, Kingsville carriers report 185 drivers working within 100 miles and 141 going beyond it. Keep your logbook or service records with the truck; they help us match the unit to the route it ran.
Liens, duplicate titles and Texas paperwork
FMCSA logged 15 new carriers registering in Kingsville in 2025, up from 4 in 2024. A newer operation sometimes still has a lender listed on the title, so if a loan is open, have the lienholder’s name and the payoff contact ready before we schedule pickup.
A lost Texas title is replaced through the state’s title agency, and the replacement has to be in the name of the owner shown on the registration. Start that request early if you need it, and tell us when you first reach out, so we can plan the collection around the date the duplicate arrives.
The questions we get asked in Kingsville
- My truck sits on a Kleberg County ranch west of Kingsville. Will you fetch it from there?Kleberg County has 380 farms on USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, and many trucks here sit on ranch land, so we collect from the property itself. Send the gate location and the name of whoever can let us in.
- Do you buy oilfield and machinery haulers from Kingsville?Twenty-nine Kingsville carriers list oilfield equipment and 32 list machinery in FMCSA’s carrier census, and those tractors and lowboy rigs are trucks we purchase. Photograph the winch or the deck along with the cab.
- What do I need to hand over when you collect?Most of the 129 Kingsville carriers in FMCSA’s census operate intrastate, so the paperwork is usually a Texas title signed by the owner, the current registration, and any service records you kept.