Quarries and a gravel pit east of Llano
Up the road 12.7 miles north-east of Llano, Bluffton Quarry cuts crushed stone, per the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s mine listing. A dump truck or end-dump tractor that has worked that quarry road can be collected from the yard where it is parked; send us the address and a name for whoever holds the gate key.
Eagle’s Nest Mine, a sand and gravel operation, is 16.5 miles east of town according to Mine Safety and Health Administration records, and Delta Materials quarries crushed stone 23.8 miles east. If your truck hauled aggregate from either one, photograph the bed, the hoist and the cab, and keep the registration and title together so the paperwork is ready when we arrive.
Hill Country haulers
FMCSA’s carrier census counts 53 active motor carriers based in Llano, 45 of them intrastate only and 8 crossing state lines. Whichever kind ran your truck, a Texas title in your name is the main document we will ask to see.
Twenty-eight of Llano’s carriers are private fleets moving their own goods, on the FMCSA census. If your truck belonged to a ranch, a contractor or a supply business rather than a for-hire outfit, tell us whose name is on the title and who can sign for it.
New registrations appear in the same federal census: 7 carriers started in Llano in 2024 and 4 more in 2025. A newer operator selling a tractor can send the VIN, the current registration and any service records with the first message.
Lowboys, hay trucks and freight vans out of Llano
Of Llano’s carriers, 25 tell FMCSA’s census they move general freight and 19 that they move machinery and large objects. Lowboys, step-decks and the tractors that pull them fall within what we buy; tell us the trailer type and whether it is sold with the tractor or on its own.
Farm supplies are carried by 14 local carriers and grain, feed and hay by 13, according to FMCSA. A feed truck or hay hauler parked out on a ranch can stay there; give us directions to the gate and say whether the ground is passable for a tow truck after rain.
Livestock ground
Ranch trucks across the county
Cattle lead, then horses and deer, on the 798 Llano County farms tallied by USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture. Livestock haulers, horse-trailer rigs and flatbeds that move fencing and feed all come out of that ranch work.
If the truck has been kept on ranch land outside Llano, you do not need to bring it into town. Send photos of each side, the dash and the plate, and tell us which county road reaches the gate.
FMCSA roadside inspection records from September 2024 to August 2026 cover 76 trucks from Llano carriers; their median model year is 2014, and 64.5 percent are ten or more model years old. Whatever the year, the model year and VIN on the title are what we start from.
Llano carriers report a median of 17,500 miles per truck a year across 16 carriers that filed it with FMCSA’s census. Have the odometer reading handy when you get in touch, along with the engine make if you know it.
The FMCSA census puts the three largest fleets in Llano at 28, 17 and 13 power units. An owner selling several trucks at once can send one list with each VIN, its location and the name on its title, and we will work through them together.
Distribution and construction trucks in Llano
The Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts for 2023 show 1,804 jobs in Llano, with 200 in wholesale trade, an 11.1 percent share, and 80 in construction. Box trucks and straight trucks from distribution work, and dump trucks from building sites, are both trucks we collect from local lots.
Around Llano the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns tallies 33 construction establishments, each a possible owner of a dump truck or flatbed. If a contractor’s truck is sitting at a job site rather than a shop, tell us the site address and who can let us in.
Title and drivers
FMCSA’s census records 67 drivers at Llano carriers working within 100 miles and 79 beyond it. Local or long-haul, the title is the document that transfers the truck; if it is lost, the state’s title agency issues a duplicate, and starting that request early keeps the sale moving.
Bring the registration, any lien release if the truck was financed, and a photo ID for the person named on the Texas title. Inspection or service records help us understand the truck and can be sent as photos.
The questions we get asked in Llano
- Our dump truck sits in a yard by Bluffton Quarry - does it have to come into Llano first?Bluffton Quarry is 12.7 miles north-east of Llano on Mine Safety and Health Administration records, and we collect from there. Tell us exactly where it is parked and who can open the gate.
- Do you buy hay and feed trucks?Thirteen Llano carriers haul grain, feed and hay according to FMCSA’s census, and those trucks are part of what we purchase. A VIN and a few photos of the feed truck are enough to get going.