Medina’s nearest pit, La Roca, sits 7.3 miles west of town on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s roll of sand and gravel operations. A dump truck or end-dump tractor that hauls aggregate out of La Roca may still be parked near the pit gate when you contact us, and that is fine; tell us the road it sits on and who holds the key.
Farther out, La Laja Pit is a sand and gravel operation 24.2 miles north-west of town, according to the Mine Safety and Health Administration. If your truck works between La Laja and Medina, note which yard it returns to at night, so the collection is planned around the place it actually stays.
Gravel haulers from either pit often carry a body, a hoist or a pup trailer along with the tractor. List each piece separately with its own VIN or serial plate, and say whether the trailer is part of the sale or stays with you.
Zapata ranchland
Stock trailers from Medina’s ranches
Zapata County holds 305 farms, and cattle lead goats and sheep among them, per USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture. Stock trailers, cattle pots and flatbed hay trucks are the kind of equipment we buy from ranches on the county roads around Medina.
A truck that has spent its life on a Zapata County ranch may sit in a pasture or behind a barn rather than in a paved lot. Give us the ranch gate location, any combination or lock details, and a phone number for whoever can let a driver in.
For a livestock hauler, send photos of the tractor and the trailer floor and gates together, and tell us whether the trailer is titled on its own. Ranch trucks often carry their paperwork in the glove box, so check there for the title and registration before you call.
Routes and clearance
Medina’s bridges and a loaded dump body
Five bridges are recorded near Medina in the National Bridge Inventory kept by the Federal Highway Administration, and none of the five carries a posted load limit. The National Bridge Inventory also lists none of them under 14 feet of clearance.
That means a loaded dump truck or a tall stock trailer can be collected from Medina without planning a detour around a weight-posted or low span on those structures. Tell us where the truck is parked and we route the pickup from there.
Glove-box titles and ranch service logs
Have the title in the owner’s name, the current registration and the VIN written down before you reach out. If a title has gone missing on a Zapata County ranch, the state’s title agency handles a replacement, and it helps to start that request early.
Service records, inspection reports and a short note on what the truck hauled, whether gravel from La Roca or cattle across the county, help us understand its history. Photos of the cab, frame, tires and any body or trailer round out the picture.
The questions we get asked in Medina
- Can my end-dump stay at La Roca Pit until pickup, or must it come into Medina first?La Roca Pit is 7.3 miles west of Medina according to the Mine Safety and Health Administration, and we collect the truck where it sits. Tell us whose ground it is parked on so the pickup can be cleared with them.
- Will you take a cattle trailer along with the tractor?Cattle top the list of Zapata County’s 305 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, and we buy livestock trailers as well as the trucks that pull them. Pass along both serial plates and both titles, the cattle pot’s and the tractor’s, in the same message.
- Who replaces a missing title for a Medina ranch truck?Zapata County titles are replaced through the state’s title agency. Start that request and let us know where it stands, so we can plan around it.