Frio County
For once, both registers point at the same patch of ground
The quarry here is the Divot Quarry, eight people on the federal mine roll, in Frio County. Eight is a working crew rather than a caretaker operation.
What is unusual is that the second register agrees with the first. The state environmental commission records an active aggregate production registration 0.02 miles from the mine coordinate — a hundred feet, effectively the same point — under the site name Materials Divot Plant, material type limestone, running to an expiry in September 2026.
That matters because it is not the usual case. Most of the stone entries in this lane have their two registers a mile or several apart, with four possible explanations and no way to choose between them. Here they line up, so the location is about as well established as these records get.
So the haul is limestone, short, and running to a known schedule
That agreement lets a bit more be said than usual. A registered limestone site with eight people renews its registration annually and works to a schedule, so the trucks serving the Divot Quarry run the same loaded legs across a season rather than ranging for work.
Limestone hauling is heavy and abrasive, and the wear lands on the body, the hoist and the rear ends rather than on the engine. Short brake-heavy runs off a pit floor put hours into a chassis that the odometer never counts, so mileage is a poor guide to a Frio County dump truck.
It also means the market moves with the registration year. A site whose registration runs to September works its equipment to that rhythm, and equipment comes free between contracts rather than when it is worn out.
Texas weight law
The plain federal figures, and what a permit does and does not lift
Those loads run to figures that are worth knowing before a sale rather than after one.
Texas sets gross at 80,000 lb, a single axle at 20,000 lb and a tandem at 34,000 lb. Those are the plain federal numbers, and Texas adds no commodity variance to them.
A permit moves the axles rather than the gross. Under the state’s size and weight schedule a permitted single axle rises to 25,000 lb and a permitted tandem to 46,000 lb, while ready-mixed concrete trucks run 23,000 and 46,000 with no permit at all. Whether a permit also lifts the gross was not established, and this page does not state that it does.
The permit layer is written by named industry — ready-mixed concrete, fluid milk, timber, super heavy single-trip — and there is no permit named for aggregate, stone, sand or quarry products.
Tex. Transp. Code § 621.101; Texas Department of Motor Vehicles size and weight limits. Information, not legal advice.
Texas paperwork
We need a title — unless it never had one
Beyond the weight and the permit, the paperwork comes down to one sentence.
Everything after that sentence is a fix rather than a category. A lost title has a counter replacement. Where none exists there is a bonded route. Both are ordinary and neither stops a sale.
One Texas rule is worth knowing because it runs further than any other state on file. Texas brands a truck salvage only where the cost of repairs exceeds the actual cash value before the damage — effectively one hundred per cent, against eighty in Florida and sixty in Oklahoma. And it is a two-part test rather than pure arithmetic: there must also be damage to, or a missing, major component part.
The calculation also leaves out repainting and sales tax, which no other state on file excludes. For a truck whose damage is mostly cosmetic that moves the answer a long way.
Tex. Transp. Code § 501.091. Information, not legal advice, and only as current as the date the rule file was last verified.
What we buy here
All of that equipment is equipment we buy. Dump trucks and aggregate haulers off the Divot Quarry work. Flatbeds, day cabs and road tractors, mixers, rollbacks, box trucks, straight trucks, service bodies, and the work trucks and pickups that go with a crew.
Frio County sits on the main road south out of San Antonio, so a truck here is a short run from a deep market rather than stranded.
Whatever you drive, the offer doesn’t change. We buy all of them.
We buy complete trucks. If the engine, transmission, doors, rear ends, drive shafts, wheels or anything under the hood have been removed, we can’t buy it. Small things — a missing bumper — are fine.
Straight answers
The questions we get asked in Pearsall
- Does it have to run?No. It does have to be complete — if the engine, transmission, doors, rear ends, drive shafts, wheels or anything under the hood have been removed, we can’t buy it. Rust is not a disqualifier.
- It hauled limestone its whole life.Then the body and the hoist have taken the wear, and that is what we’ll ask about. Around the Divot Quarry it is the normal history.
- What about the title?We need one unless the truck is old enough that it never had one. Lost titles have a counter replacement; where none exists there’s a bonded route.
- Do you have to come out to look at it?Not necessarily. We can come to you and drive it away, come and tow it, buy it remotely and arrange the tow, or you can drive it to us. Frio County is easy country to collect from.
Why people call
Beyond a limestone contract ending, the reasons are personal ones. Retiring. A medical that went the wrong way. A truck bought for one job that outlived the job.
Yards around the Divot Quarry and across Frio County usually have one waiting.
Most of those aren’t happy reasons, and we don’t treat them like they are. Somebody wants a straight answer and the truck gone by the end of the week. That’s what we’re here for.