Quarry roads between Moody and the Cowart Mine
The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists the Cowart Mine, a crushed-stone quarry, 8.3 miles west of Moody, and the Dippel Quarry 9.4 miles to the north-west. A dump truck or tractor that has hauled aggregate out of either pit can be collected wherever it is parked, at the quarry gate, a shop yard or your own lot in town.
The Waco Plant, a cement plant, appears in the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s register 14 miles north-east of Moody. If your truck has made the run between the quarries and that plant, send photos of the cab, the bed or trailer and the plate showing the VIN, and tell us which site it worked out of so we can plan the route to it.
Mine Service and Loredo’s, north of Moody
Mine Service Ltd., a sand and gravel operation, is 15.9 miles north of Moody according to the Mine Safety and Health Administration, and Loredo’s Excavation & Hauling LLC runs another 20.1 miles to the north-east. Tri-axle dumps and end-dump trailers from that kind of work fit what we purchase.
Have the registration and the title in hand before you call, along with any service records the truck carries in its door pocket or your office file. A seller in Moody who sends those with a few clear photos gives us everything needed to arrange the collection.
Feed, hay and livestock haulers around Moody
Of the 60 active carriers based in Moody on FMCSA’s carrier census, 20 list grain, feed or hay among their cargo, 11 list farm supplies and 8 haul livestock. Hopper-bottom trailers, cattle pots and the tractors that pull them are all trucks we collect from farmyards and pastures around town.
Around Moody, the 3,140 McLennan County farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture lead with cattle, then corn, then milk. If your truck is parked out at a barn or feedlot rather than on pavement, tell us the gate and whether a tow rig can reach it.
Small operations that stay inside Texas
Intrastate work dominates here: FMCSA’s carrier census records 55 of Moody’s carriers operating only within Texas, 5 crossing state lines and 18 running private fleets for their own goods. The biggest outfit based in town runs 9 power units with 8 drivers on that same FMCSA census, and the next two run 4 trucks each.
FMCSA’s carrier census shows a median of 24,000 miles per truck a year among the 23 local carriers that report mileage. Whether you run one pickup-and-trailer rig or retire a few tractors from a small fleet, list each VIN and where each unit sits so we can schedule them together.
General freight is the most common cargo line on the federal census, carried by 30 of the town’s 60 carriers, so box trucks, flatbeds and day cabs are as likely here as farm equipment haulers.
Inspection stops and the age of the local fleet
FMCSA roadside inspection records from October 2024 to August 2026 cover 46 trucks from Moody carriers, with a median model year halfway between 2009 and 2010. Of the Moody-based trucks stopped for FMCSA roadside inspections, 58.7 percent carried a model year ten or more years back.
Older and newer model years are both trucks we collect. Give us the year, make and model from the registration card, and a photo of the odometer, and we can match the truck to the right questions from the first call.
Pickups between Moody, the Temple yards and the base
South of Moody, the North American Rail Network maintained by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics shows the Central Pointe rail yard 12 miles away and the Temple yard at 13.4. Fort Cavazos, which the Bureau of Transportation Statistics lists as a military installation, lies 23.2 miles west.
A tractor parked near either rail yard or on a lot outside the base can stay right there. Send us the address and we come to where the truck sits.
The questions we get asked in Moody
- My Moody truck’s title is missing - who issues a copy?Moody titles are handled by the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles, which issues copies through the county tax assessor-collector offices. Start the replacement there before pickup, and tell us if it is already underway.
- Can you collect a truck from a quarry or farm outside town?Quarries such as the Cowart Mine, 8.3 miles west on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list, and farm lots across McLennan County are places we collect from. Give us the gate location and how a tow rig gets in.
- Do you buy livestock and grain trailers along with the tractor?Moody has 8 livestock haulers and 20 grain, feed or hay carriers on FMCSA’s carrier census, and we collect tractors and trailers from that work together or separately. A hopper trailer and its tractor each need their own VIN and photos.
- Before calling from Moody, which documents and pictures does a seller line up?For a truck registered in Moody, have the Texas title, the registration card, the VIN and a few photos of the cab, frame and odometer. Any shop invoices from local feed or quarry work round out the file.