South on the quarry road
Aggregate and cement haulers below Manchaca
Buda Quarry, a crushed-stone site, lies 4.7 miles south of Manchaca on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s register. A dump truck or end-dump tractor that shuttles aggregate from that pit is the kind of equipment we collect, and it can usually be picked up right where it is parked between loads. Send the VIN, a photo of the door plate and a shot of the bed so we know the configuration before we call.
A little further along the same direction, the Mine Safety and Health Administration places the Texas-Lehigh Cement Plant & Quarry 5.4 miles south of town. Bulk cement trailers and the tractors that pull them work between plants like that one and job sites across the county. If yours sits in a yard near the plant, give us the street address and a gate contact, and keep the registration in the cab for the day we arrive.
Dump rigs loading at the Hergotz and Garfield pits
Two sand and gravel operations appear on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list east of Manchaca: Texas Materials Hergotz Plant at 12.7 miles north-east and Garfield Sand & Gravel at 15.7 miles east. Tandem dumps and belly-dump rigs that load at pits like these can be sold from a contractor’s lot or a home driveway in Manchaca alike.
If the truck has worked those gravel pits, write down what it hauled and which axles it runs on, and photograph the tag plate on any attached trailer. Service invoices you already keep, from oil changes to tire records, help us match the truck to its paperwork when we come out.
Tank tractors between Mustang Ridge and north Austin
The Energy Information Administration lists MUSTANG RIDGE FUELS TRMNL, a petroleum product terminal, 11.7 miles south-east of Manchaca, and the AUSTIN PLANT terminal 17.7 miles north. Tankers that load fuel at those racks fall within what we buy, from a single tractor to a tractor and tank trailer together.
For a fuel tractor, have the title and the cab card ready, and tell us whether the tank trailer is part of the sale. Send clear photos of the tank’s spec plate, the hose cabinet and the tractor’s dash as well.
Small in-state outfits and private fleets
FMCSA’s carrier census counts 23 active carriers in Manchaca, and 20 of them are registered intrastate against just 2 interstate. The same FMCSA census shows 10 private fleets, where a business moves its own goods. A truck owned by a contractor or a small business here is very likely Texas-only and parked at the company yard.
General freight is the cargo listed by 8 carriers in the federal census, with machinery and large objects named by 4, household goods by 3, and metal sheets, coils and rolls by 2. Flatbeds, lowboys, box trucks and moving vans all fit those lines, and each one sells with the same basics: title, registration and a set of clear photos.
On driving radius, 22 carriers in the FMCSA figures report operating within 100 miles, while 20 also report runs beyond that distance. One fleet on the census runs five power units with four drivers, another four units with six drivers. Whether you run one truck or several, list every VIN and we will arrange the collection as one visit.
Building work fills a third of local jobs
Construction crews fill 481 of Manchaca’s 1,269 workplace jobs, a 37.9 percent slice, according to the 2023 LEHD job counts published by the Census Bureau. Dump trucks, water trucks, flatbeds hauling equipment and service bodies are the tools of that trade, and we buy them from crews and owner-operators alike.
Manufacturing accounts for 63 positions and agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting for 59 in the same LEHD figures. If your truck served a job site, tell us where it is now parked; a contractor’s yard, a staging lot or a house in Manchaca all work for collection.
Stock trailers and grain beds on the cattle places
Cattle, corn and equine lead the 870 farms that USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture records for Travis County. Livestock haulers, grain trucks and the tractors that pull horse trailers come from operations like these.
A ranch truck often sits on land rather than a paved yard. Give us directions to the gate, mention any soft ground or tight turns, and keep the title with whoever will meet us so the handover happens in one stop.
A replacement title from the Austin tax office
Manchaca owners get a replacement title through the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles, which handles that work at county tax assessor-collector offices. For this town that office is the Travis County Tax Office at 2433 Ridgepoint Drive, Austin, 78754, about 16.5 miles from Manchaca per the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles.
If the title is missing, start the request there before you contact us, and bring your ID and the truck’s VIN. If there is a lien on the truck, have the lienholder’s name and a payoff letter on hand so the release can be arranged alongside the sale.
The questions we get asked in Manchaca
- Will you collect a truck parked near Buda Quarry or the cement plant?Buda Quarry sits 4.7 miles south and the Texas-Lehigh plant 5.4 miles south of Manchaca on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s register, and we come to trucks parked near either one. Text us the yard address and the name of whoever holds the gate key.
- Is an in-state-only registration a problem for a Manchaca sale?Twenty of the 23 Manchaca carriers in FMCSA’s carrier census are intrastate, so a Texas-only truck is the usual case here. A Texas title and current registration in the owner’s name cover the paperwork for a truck like that.
- Will you take a tank tractor that pulls from the Mustang Ridge rack?MUSTANG RIDGE FUELS TRMNL, 11.7 miles south-east on the Energy Information Administration’s list, loads tankers like the ones we purchase. Tell us whether the tank trailer comes with the tractor.