Rails and salt
The Mineola yard and the mines either side of town
Just 2.7 miles west, on the edge of town, the Mineola rail yard shows up in the North American Rail Network that the Federal Railroad Administration maintains with the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. If your tractor shuttles loads to and from that yard, it is probably parked close by between runs, so give us the street address or the lot where it sits and we will collect it there.
Grand Saline Operations, an industrial-mineral mine 13.4 miles west on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list, and the North Pit and Plant sand and gravel operation 14 miles east, bracket Mineola on two sides. Dump trucks and end-dump tractors that work those pits can be picked up at a yard near either one; tell us which site it is and who can let us through the gate.
Further out, the same rail network from the Federal Railroad Administration shows the Tyler yard 23.1 miles south-east. A truck that has moved between Tyler and Mineola does not need to be driven back to Wood County before you sell it.
Coil, timber, feed and freight out of Mineola
If yours is a van or flatbed tractor from one of those outfits, send photos of the cab, the frame and the fifth wheel along with the VIN so we can match the truck to what you tell us.
Metal sheets, coils and rolls appear on 12 Mineola carrier registrations in the FMCSA census, with logs, poles, beams and lumber on 11 and farm supplies on 10. Coil haulers, log trucks and feed or fertilizer rigs are all trucks we purchase, and a note on what the truck pulled tells us which trailer questions to ask.
Of the 69 carriers, the FMCSA census shows 53 operating within Texas only, 16 crossing state lines, and 31 running private fleets that haul their own goods. A private-fleet truck owned by a business can be sold by that business; have the person authorised to sign for the company on hand along with the title.
From single-truck operators to fleets of tractors
At the top end, one Mineola outfit files 29 power units against 22 drivers with FMCSA, the next files 19 tractors and 19 drivers, and a third runs 7 of each. Selling one truck or several from a fleet that size works the same way: list each VIN, where each truck is parked, and which titles are in hand.
Six new carriers registered in Mineola in 2025 and one in 2024, according to the carrier census FMCSA keeps. If you started hauling recently and are now selling the truck you bought to do it, bring the title in your name or the lender’s payoff letter if a lien is still open.
Mileage filed with FMCSA by 14 Mineola carriers puts the median truck at 25,197 miles in a year; note your own odometer reading before you call. The same census lists 80 drivers working within 100 miles of home and 107 working beyond that radius, so tell us whether your truck is home in Mineola or out on a long run when you get in touch.
Between late August 2024 and late August 2026, officers stopped 56 trucks belonging to Mineola carriers, and the FMCSA roadside inspection records for those stops give a median model year of 2016. Write down the model year and engine from the title or the door sticker before you contact us; those two details start every conversation about a truck.
Just under half of those 56 trucks, 46.4 percent by the roadside inspection records, carried a model year ten or more years back. Whatever year your truck is, keep the registration, any annual inspection reports and service invoices together so they travel with it at pickup.
Wood County work
Of the 2,547 jobs counted in Mineola for 2023, manufacturing held 232 and construction 89, by the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts. Box trucks and straight trucks that make plant deliveries, and flatbeds that carry building materials, are the kinds of vehicles we collect from shop lots and job yards around town.
A dump truck or a tool truck owned by a contractor can be collected from the job site where it last worked, as long as someone can show us which one it is.
Wood County’s 1,357 farms lean on cattle first, then milk, then horses, in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture. Cattle haulers, milk trucks and horse rigs parked on a ranch can be picked up from the farm itself; send directions to the barn or pasture gate along with the photos.
The questions we get asked in Mineola
- Our end-dump sits at the gravel pit east of Mineola; can it be collected there?The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists Grand Saline Operations 13.4 miles west and the North Pit and Plant 14 miles east, and we collect from sites like those. Tell us the pit name and a contact who can open the gate.
- Is a Wood County cattle pot something you’ll take?Cattle lead the farm list for Wood County’s 1,357 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, and livestock trucks and trailers are on the list of what we purchase. Have the title ready and tell us which ranch the truck is parked on.