McKinney is the Collin County seat and a long-haul town: 799 carriers are based here, and nearly four in five of the drivers reported here work beyond a hundred miles. After general freight the cargoes they declare most are household goods, machinery and metal coil. One carrier registered in the city reports more than 4,800 power units, by far the largest based here, while the rest are small, and the trucks are new, the roadside inspections putting the median at model year 2020 with only one in six ten years old or more.
So a McKinney yard holds a moving van with a lift gate, a lowboy with machinery, a flatbed with coil, a day cab running boxes off the Wylie intermodal ramp south-east of town, and the semi truck with a sleeper that runs the country. Manufacturing and construction are the biggest trucking employers in the city, and Collin County's farms lead with cattle, wheat and corn.
Bloomdale Road
The Collin County Tax Office at 2300 Bloomdale Road, Suite 2302, records the title transfer and starts a certified copy of a lost title for the Department of Motor Vehicles, which is how Texas does title work in every county. Liens, the bonded route and the fact that no diesel truck is asked for an emissions test are covered on the Texas page.
A moving van shows its life in the body, the lift gate and the rear door, a lowboy tractor in its drivetrain and its fifth wheel. Photograph those first, then the cab, the engine, the odometer and the engine hours, and tell us the lane or the ramp it worked and whether the trailer or a chassis goes with it.
One posted bridge, none low
McKinney runs the Texas statute, the federal 80,000 pounds on the interstates and the state axle figures the Texas page sets out, over 144 bridges in the area, one posted for load and none under fourteen feet, so a tandem gravel truck here answers to the scale and nothing on a sign.
Tell us where the truck is in McKinney, south toward Wylie, west toward the Denton pits or in a yard off the highway, and send photos and the title.