Hay, hoppers and lowboys registered in Leonard
FMCSA’s carrier census lists 31 active motor carriers in Leonard, and 18 of them mark general freight among the cargo they haul. If your tractor or straight truck has been on that kind of mixed work, have the title in hand and a few clear photos of the cab, the frame and the tires before you call us.
Farm supplies show up on 13 of those registrations, and grain, feed and hay on 10, according to the same federal carrier census. A grain hopper rig, a hay hauler or a flatbed that carried feed all fit what we buy, so tell us what it pulled and send the VIN.
Ten Leonard carriers in the FMCSA records list machinery and large objects too. For a lowboy tractor or a heavy-haul unit, give us the axle setup and the fifth-wheel or gooseneck details when you first get in touch, and the questions we ask afterward stay short.
Mostly in-state hauling from small yards
Of Leonard’s registered carriers, 23 run intrastate and 8 cross state lines, the federal carrier census shows, and 20 operate as private fleets hauling their own goods. A farm or business truck that never carried for hire still sells to us the same way; the title in the owner’s name is what matters.
The biggest operations on file with FMCSA here run four power units at most, with one outfit fielding three trucks and five drivers. If you are an owner-operator or a two- or three-truck shop selling one unit, we come to your yard and collect that truck alone.
Eleven Leonard outfits reported yearly mileage to FMCSA, and the median across them is 16,667 miles for each truck. Write down the odometer reading the day you contact us so the number on the title paperwork and the number on the dash agree.
Drivers who stay inside a hundred-mile circle
Thirty-five drivers on Leonard registrations work within 100 air miles of home and 30 go beyond that line, per the carrier census kept by FMCSA. For local units, the truck is usually parked at the farm or the shop on the edge of town when we arrive, so give us that address and a gate code if there is one.
Two new carriers registered here in 2025 and one in 2024, the federal motor carrier census records. A recently started operation selling a truck needs the same papers as an old one: the signed title, current registration and any lien release from the lender.
A missing Texas title, handled in Bonham
Texas titles come through the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles, and for Leonard sellers the nearest counter is the Fannin County Tax Office at 210 S Main St, Bonham, TX 75418, some 13.4 miles away. That office is one of the county tax assessor-collector offices the state agency uses, and it can issue a certified copy if your title has gone missing.
Start the copy request before you schedule a pickup with us. Bring your ID and the VIN to Bonham, and if a bank still holds a lien, ask the lender for its release at the same time.
Pits to the north, a yard and a terminal to the south
Wolf Creek, a sand and gravel operation the Mine Safety and Health Administration tracks, lies 20.5 miles north of Leonard, and RED RIVER Plant # 1 is 21.2 miles out in that same direction. Dump trucks and end-dump tractors that haul aggregate from pits like these are trucks we purchase; note which site it served and send photos of the bed and hoist.
South-east of town by 18.4 miles, the North American Rail Network shows the GREENVILLE rail yard, while the Energy Information Administration places the SUNOCO CADDO LLC petroleum product terminal 24.2 miles south. A tanker or a tractor that worked those runs may be parked near either site, and we can meet it there instead of in Leonard.
Livestock, wheat and corn on the farm roads
Fannin County holds 2,108 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, with cattle, wheat and corn its leading products. Cattle pots, grain trucks and farm-plated tractors from around Leonard belong on our list; registration papers and any farm-use plates should travel with the title.
Around Leonard, 20 bridges appear in the National Bridge Inventory from the Federal Highway Administration, one of them load-posted and none with clearance under fourteen feet. Tell us whether your truck sits behind a posted crossing so we send a carrier that can reach it.
Local employers counted 618 jobs in 2023 on the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts, and County Business Patterns from the Census Bureau records 11 construction establishments in the area. A contractor’s dump truck or flatbed from one of those firms sells with the same steps: title, registration, photos and an address for collection.
The questions we get asked in Leonard
- The title went missing years ago; does Bonham replace it for a Leonard seller?The Fannin County Tax Office at 210 S Main St in Bonham, 13.4 miles from Leonard, handles certified copies for the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles. Get the copy first, then call us to arrange the pickup.
- Do you buy farm trucks that never hauled for hire?Twenty of Leonard’s carriers in FMCSA’s census run private fleets, and we buy from owners like them. Keep the farm truck’s title, signed in your name, beside its Texas registration.
- Can you collect a dump truck parked at a gravel pit north of Leonard?Wolf Creek and RED RIVER Plant # 1 sit roughly 20 to 21 miles north of Leonard on Mine Safety and Health Administration records, and we collect from sites like those. Send us the site address and how the truck is reached.