Needville’s active motor carriers
If your truck is one of the power units behind those registrations, have the title, the current registration and the USDOT number handy when you reach us, and we will start from there.
General freight is the cargo listed by 56 of those carriers in the FMCSA census, with 17 hauling machinery and large objects, 12 hauling farm supplies and 11 hauling grain, feed and hay. A lowboy tractor that moved equipment, a grain hauler or a box truck on local freight all fit what we collect, so tell us which of those jobs yours did and send photos of the cab, frame and fifth wheel.
Per the same federal census, 96 Needville carriers run intrastate only and 13 cross state lines, while 30 are private fleets carrying their own goods. A farm or construction company selling one truck from its own fleet can contact us exactly as an owner-operator would.
Rail near town
Kendleton yard and ramp, north-west of Needville
Kendleton Intermodal, a rail yard on the North American Rail Network kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, lies 9.5 miles up the road to the north-west of Needville. A day cab that shuttled containers out of that yard can be collected wherever it now sits, whether at your house, a shop or a lot on the Fort Bend side.
Close by, at 9.7 miles north-west, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics lists the Kendleton rail intermodal ramp. If your tractor worked that ramp, give us the VIN, the odometer reading and the address where it is parked, plus a contact who can open the gate if it is behind a fence.
Gravel pit and terminal
Sand from Richmond, fuel from Freeport
Toward Richmond, 14.6 miles north-east of Needville, the Mine Safety and Health Administration lists Richmond Material Co as a sand and gravel operation. Dump trucks and end-dump tractors that hauled aggregate from a pit like that are trucks we buy; send a photo of the bed or trailer along with the cab and chassis.
To the south, 23 miles away, the Energy Information Administration lists a petroleum product terminal at Freeport. If your tanker tractor loaded there, tell us so at the start and keep any terminal or site paperwork with the truck; it shows us where the vehicle has worked.
Rice, cotton and cattle south of Richmond
USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 1,233 farms in Fort Bend County, where cattle, rice and cotton lead the listed products. A grain truck or livestock hauler parked on a farm outside Needville stays where it is; just tell us which road and gate to use.
The Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns records 31 construction establishments for Needville, and the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts (LODES) put 663 jobs in Needville in 2023. Whether your truck served a building site or a farm, the paperwork we ask for is the same: title, registration and any service records you kept.
How these trucks run
Short local runs and fleet sizes in Needville
Of Needville’s drivers in FMCSA’s carrier census, 119 work within 100 miles and 76 go farther. For the 31 carriers reporting mileage to the same census, the median sits at 47,500 miles per truck a year, so have your own odometer reading ready when you call.
The three biggest fleets based here run 8, 5 and 5 power units on FMCSA’s census, so most sellers we hear from in Needville own one truck or a handful. Selling two or three units at once is fine; list each VIN and where each one is parked.
In the FMCSA carrier census, Needville gained ten new carriers in 2025 after five in 2024. If your authority is recent and you are selling the truck you started with, the title in your name and the registration are what we need first.
What roadside inspections recorded in Needville
Across 86 Needville trucks checked roadside from September 2024 to August 2026, FMCSA roadside inspection records give a median model year of 2011.5. Send us your own truck’s year, make and model with the first photos.
Those same inspection records show about 60 percent of the inspected Needville trucks were ten or more model years old. Older or newer, the steps match: photos of each side, the VIN plate, the title and the registration.
The questions we get asked in Needville
- Will you take a grain truck or livestock hauler off a farm near Needville?Fort Bend County has 1,233 farms on USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, and grain trucks, livestock haulers and farm-supply trucks from them are trucks we buy. Send photos and the VIN, and tell us which farm road it is on.