Gravel trucks out of the Hempstead Plant
Head 5.8 miles west of Pine Island and you reach the Hempstead Plant, a sand and gravel pit on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s roster. A tandem dump or end-dump that loads at that pit can usually be collected right where it parks between hauls, so tell us whether it sits at the plant, at a yard or at your house.
Send us the VIN, a few photos of the bed and the cab, and the name on the title before anything else. With a gravel hauler parked this close to town, those three things let us set up the pickup without you having to move it off the property.
Two sites a dozen miles down the road
Southeast of town, the Mine Safety and Health Administration places the HOCKLEY MINE, an industrial-mineral mine, at 12.9 miles, with the Hockley Plant for sand and gravel at 13.1 miles. A truck that splits its week between those two gates and Pine Island is one we can meet at either end.
If the tractor or dump body is kept at a Hockley lot rather than at home, give us the gate contact and the hours someone is on site. Check that the registration is in the cab or with you before a driver heads out from Pine Island.
Hard hats and haul roads
Builders and pit crews make up most of the payroll
Construction held 308 of Pine Island’s 714 jobs in 2023, or 43.1 percent, as the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts tally them. Flatbeds, water trucks and dump trucks that serve job sites around town are all on the list of what we purchase.
That same LEHD tally puts 274 jobs, or 38.4 percent, in mining, quarrying and oil and gas extraction. Haulers tied to those crews tend to carry their service logs in a binder or on a shop invoice, and handing those over with the title keeps the conversation about your own truck.
Builders keep 35 establishments on the books near Pine Island, by the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns, and plenty of them run their own flatbeds and dumps. Whether your rig belongs to one of those outfits or you run it yourself, the seller we deal with is whoever holds the title.
Door stickers checked
What roadside inspectors logged around town
Roadside inspection records kept by FMCSA cover 172 trucks checked around Pine Island between August 2024 and August 2026, and the median model year among them was 2016. Read the year off the door sticker or the title and include it when you first write to us.
Just under half of those inspected rigs, 49.42 percent by FMCSA’s roadside tally, carried a model year at least a decade back. Put the make, the engine and that model year in your first message about the truck you keep in Pine Island.
Cattle, rice and horses
Stock trailers and farm trucks around town
Pine Island’s surrounding farm country holds 1,545 farms across Waller County, according to USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, which ranks cattle first, then rice and equine. Grain trucks, stock haulers and the tractors that pull horse trailers all qualify.
A farm truck parked in a barn or out by a pasture gate can stay there; tell us the road, the gate and which side of the field it stands on. If the title is still in a parent’s or a partnership’s name, say so up front.
Austin Street, Hempstead
A tax office counter in Hempstead
Pine Island owners who have misplaced a title go 4.2 miles to the Waller County Tax Office at 836 Austin St, Ste 1400, Hempstead, 77445, one of the county tax assessor-collector offices through which the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles issues titles. A missing title can be replaced there before we collect the truck.
Bring a photo ID and the VIN when you go to that Austin Street counter in Hempstead. If a lien was ever recorded on the truck, the release letter from the lender belongs with the new certificate when you hand it over.
Trucks parked near the Sealy yard
The North American Rail Network, kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, shows the SEALY rail yard 20.6 miles southwest of Pine Island. A day cab working loads in and out of that yard can be picked up there instead of being brought home first.
Give us the yard address or the lot where the truck is parked near Sealy, plus a phone number for whoever can let a driver in. You do not need to be on site yourself if the keys and title are arranged ahead of time.
The questions we get asked in Pine Island
- Can you collect an end-dump that sits at the gravel pit west of Pine Island?The Hempstead Plant sits 5.8 miles west of Pine Island on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list, and we collect from that pit or any lot nearby. Give us the plant foreman’s number and the bay where the end-dump sits.
- I lost the certificate for my Pine Island gravel truck; who prints a new one?Suite 1400 at 836 Austin St in Hempstead, home of the Waller County Tax Office 4.2 miles from Pine Island, handles titles on behalf of the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles. Take your ID and the VIN there and request a certified copy.
- Do you buy livestock and rice trucks from farms around here?Cattle, rice and equine lead the 1,545 farms that USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts in Waller County, and trucks hauling for any of them are welcome. A rice truck or horse-trailer tractor from those pastures starts with the VIN and a shot of each side.