B & B, Denton Sand Farm and the Cooke County crusher
The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists B & B Sand & Gravel 7.3 miles south of town and Denton Sand Farm 9.8 miles south. A dump truck or end-dump tractor that loads at either pit is often parked at the pit or a yard near it between shifts, so give us that address rather than your home address when you get in touch.
North on the Cooke County side, Cooke County Crushed Stone is 18.1 miles out on Mine Safety and Health Administration records, and Denton Pits, an industrial-mineral mine, is the same 18.1 miles to the south-west. If the truck sits behind a quarry gate, send us the name of whoever can let a driver in, plus photos of the bed, the hoist and the cab taken where it stands.
Pilot Point’s registered carriers
Seventy-eight active carriers carry a Pilot Point address in FMCSA’s carrier census, and 50 of them list general freight. The same FMCSA census lists 17 hauling machinery and large objects, 12 carrying farm supplies and 10 moving metal sheets, coils and rolls; if yours is a flatbed or step-deck rig, photograph the deck, the straps and the winches along with the tractor.
Of those carriers, the federal census shows 23 cleared for interstate work, 54 running intrastate only and 37 operating as private fleets that haul their own goods. An intrastate tractor that has never left Texas sells the same way as one with interstate authority; have the registration and the title in the same name, and tell us which authority the truck worked under.
Home most nights, or out on the long haul
A Pilot Point tractor logged a median 34,993 miles a year, going by the 24 carriers here that report mileage to FMCSA. A tractor on that kind of schedule usually comes home most nights, which makes the yard or driveway in town the likely place we meet it.
The census splits the area’s drivers into 82 who stay within 100 miles and 127 who go beyond that radius. If your truck is out on a long run when you contact us, tell us the date it is due back to Pilot Point and we will plan collection around that return.
Fleet sizes vary: by FMCSA’s count the three biggest local operations run 42, 16 and 10 power units, with 40, 12 and 10 drivers. Selling several tractors from one yard is a single conversation; list each VIN and unit number in one message.
Pilot Point trucks at the roadside check
Between September 2024 and August 2026, inspectors stopped 105 trucks based in Pilot Point, and FMCSA roadside inspection records put the middle of that group at model year 2014. Bring the most recent inspection report you have, along with the registration, so the model year and VIN on our side match the paperwork.
Those FMCSA roadside records show 64.8 percent of the trucks were ten or more model years old. Whatever the year on your title, the steps are the same: photos of the cab, the frame and the tires, the odometer reading, and the title in hand or a duplicate requested from Texas’s title agency if the original has gone missing.
Factory floors, job sites and horse barns in Denton County
Plants in Pilot Point held 742 manufacturing jobs in 2023, which the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts set at 41.5 percent of the town’s 1,787 jobs. The same source puts construction at 124 jobs, and County Business Patterns counts 36 construction establishments, so box trucks, flatbeds and dump trucks that serve plants and building sites around town all fit what we buy.
Denton County held 2,936 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, with equine, wheat and sorghum leading the county’s farm output. A grain truck or a tractor that pulls a livestock or horse trailer may be stored in a barn or field rather than a yard, so tell us whether a truck can reach it on a dry road.
Rail, bridges and the roads out of town
Up toward Gainesville, a rail yard sits 20.1 miles north-west of the Pilot Point square on the North American Rail Network maintained by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. If your tractor has been shuttling loads to that yard and is parked there, the yard’s address and a gate contact are what we need.
Pilot Point has eight bridges in the National Bridge Inventory, and none of them is load-posted or under 14 feet of clearance. For a tall or heavy unit, that leaves the roads into town open to the truck we send, so the only route detail we ask for is the street address where your truck is parked.
The questions we get asked in Pilot Point
- Our end-dump stays at the B & B pit off the road south of Pilot Point between loads; does it have to come into town first?B & B Sand & Gravel is 7.3 miles south and Denton Sand Farm 9.8 miles south on Mine Safety and Health Administration records, and we collect from either site. Tell us the pit name and who holds the gate key.
- The tractor hauled for a Pilot Point outfit with intrastate authority and never crossed the Red River; is that a problem for selling?Fifty-four of Pilot Point’s 78 active carriers are intrastate only in FMCSA’s carrier census, and we buy their trucks the same way. Put the Texas cab card and the signed title in one envelope before we arrive.
- The title for the Pilot Point truck went missing in a move; where does a replacement come from?Texas’s title agency issues duplicate titles, and the request goes in the name printed on the registration. Start that request before collection and send us the VIN in the meantime.