Harrison County
Four yards, one name, four compass points
Four rail yards are filed under this town and all four carry the same name with a direction on the end: Letourneau East, Letourneau North, Letourneau South and Letourneau Southeast.
They sit within 1.24 miles of one another, from 2.51 miles out to 3.46, and all four run under the same railroad. That is a single industrial site recorded as four rows rather than four separate yards.
Every one of them attaches to this town by nearest-centroid fallback rather than by a source naming it. Worth stating: the association is computed from a coordinate, not asserted by a record, and it is a weaker kind of match.
So what looks like four destinations is one gate
Those four rows describe an industrial complex with its own internal rail, which is a different trucking proposition from four separate yards.
It means the traffic converges rather than spreading. Trucks come to one place, work between buildings inside it, and leave on the same road they arrived on. Short internal moves, heavy loads, and very little of it on a public highway.
A truck sold out of Harrison County has often spent its life inside a fence, which tends to mean low miles, high hours and a body that has been rubbed against things. Letourneau North and its three neighbours are one such fence.
Texas weight law
One ceiling, and a permit list that skips stone
The moment those loads reach a public road they are under one statutory ceiling.
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 one 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. So 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 comes with 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 those two percentages run in opposite directions and must never be added together.
Tex. Transp. Code § 621.101; Chapter 623 permits. Information, not legal advice.
Texas paperwork
We need a title — unless it never had one
Beyond the weight rules, 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, not pure arithmetic: there must also be damage to, or a missing, major component part.
The statute lists thirteen major component parts, and the calculation 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.
What we buy here
All of that iron is iron we buy. Yard tractors and day cabs off the Letourneau East and Letourneau North traffic. Lowboys and heavy haul off the industrial side. Flatbeds, dump trucks, rollbacks, box trucks, straight trucks, service bodies, and the work trucks and pickups that go with a crew.
Four rows inside 1.24 miles is one site, and a site turns equipment over on a maintenance schedule rather than a market one.
Whatever you drive, the offer doesn’t change. We buy all of them.
We buy complete trucks. If the engine, transmission, doors, rear ends, drive shafts, wheels or anything under the hood have been removed, we can’t buy it. Small things — a missing bumper — are fine.
Straight answers
The questions we get asked in Lakeport
- 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.
- It never left the site, so it has no real mileage.Common around Letourneau South and Letourneau East, and not a problem. Tell us the hours instead.
- The body is scraped up from working in tight spaces.Expected on an internal yard truck. Cosmetic damage is not a missing component.
- 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.
Why people call
Beyond a site fleet turning over, the reasons are personal ones. Retiring. A medical that went the wrong way. A truck retired from a yard and parked because nobody needed it any more.
Places around Letourneau Southeast and across Harrison County usually have one waiting.
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.