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Port Lavaca sits on the bay side of Calhoun County, where tank trucks serve liquid bulk docks east of town and farm haulers move cattle feed, corn and cotton inland.

Selling a truck in Port Lavaca? Tell us about it and we'll take it from there.

Liquid bulk on the Lavaca Bay shoreline

A liquid bulk terminal named Port Lavaca lies 1.6 miles south-east of the town centre, per the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, and the NorthStar liquid bulk terminal sits 5.1 miles east. If your tractor has pulled tankers between those two docks, list the terminals it served when you write to us and attach the tank trailer details if the trailer goes with it.

Calhoun Port Authority, TX, which the Bureau of Transportation Statistics places 5 miles east, also carries a roll-on/roll-off terminal called the Port Lavaca-Port Comfort Multi-Purpose Dock at 5.2 miles. A truck parked inside a port gate needs someone who can let us in, so give us the gate contact and the bay or lot number along with the VIN.

Rail ramps and yards off the bay road

East of town, 4.9 miles out, the General Cargo Dock rail intermodal ramp appears in Bureau of Transportation Statistics listings; to the south-west, Long Mott Harbor is a second ramp at 12.5 miles. Day cabs that shuttle between dock and rail usually stay close to the coast, so tell us which ramp yours is parked near.

The North American Rail Network, kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, shows the LONG MOTT rail yard 12 miles south-west and the BLOOMINGTON yard 15.1 miles west. A truck left at either yard can be collected where it stands; send a pin drop or the cross street, and photos of the cab, frame and tires.

Intrastate haulers and private fleets on the bay

FMCSA’s carrier census lists 66 active carriers based here, and 63 of them are registered as intrastate against 3 interstate. With 36 private fleets in that same census, many trucks here belong to businesses that haul their own goods, so have the business registration and whoever signs for the company ready before we start.

General freight is named by 26 carriers in FMCSA’s carrier census, machinery and large objects by 17, grain, feed and hay by 13, and farm supplies by 11. Lowboys, flatbeds, grain trailers and the tractors that pull them are all trucks we take; tell us the body type and the trailer setup in your first message.

Port Lavaca’s top three fleets field 24, 23 and 13 power units apiece, going by FMCSA’s carrier census. If you manage one of them and are letting several units go, send one list with each VIN and where each unit is parked, and we can plan the collections together.

Mileage and fleet years

Where Port Lavaca drivers range

Seventeen carriers reported annual mileage to FMCSA’s carrier census, with a median of 19,000 miles per truck. Drivers registered to work beyond 100 miles number 313 in that census, against 122 who stay within 100, so a truck from here may be sitting at a yard well away from the bay when you sell it.

Roadside inspection records from FMCSA cover 39 trucks checked between October 2024 and August 2026; their median model year is 2016, and 43.6 percent were ten or more model years old. Whatever the year of yours, have the title, current registration and any service records together so the paperwork moves alongside the truck.

Cattle, corn, cotton and construction

Cattle top the farm list in Calhoun County, ahead of corn and cotton, across the 257 farms that USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture tallies there. Stock trailers, grain hoppers and feed trucks from those farms are often parked on the property itself, and we can collect from a pasture gate or barn yard if you give us directions in.

Construction holds 460 of the 3,656 jobs recorded here in 2023 by the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts, a 12.6 percent share, and County Business Patterns lists 34 construction establishments. Dump trucks, water trucks and equipment haulers from local job sites qualify; tell us whether the truck is on an active site so we can time the pickup with the crew.

Titles and photos for a bay-country sale

A Port Lavaca truck title is handled by the state’s title agency in Texas, and a missing title is replaced through that agency. Start that request before you contact us if the original is gone, and keep the receipt to show the application is in.

Clear photos of each side, the cab interior, the data plate and the VIN help us match the truck to its registration. If the truck is registered to a company rather than to you, include a letter from the company naming who may sign.

The questions we get asked in Port Lavaca

  • My tractor is parked at the Calhoun Port Authority dock. Can it stay on the port authority lot for collection?Calhoun Port Authority, TX is about 5 miles east of Port Lavaca in Bureau of Transportation Statistics listings, and we collect at the dock itself. Give us the gate contact so access is arranged before we send a driver.
  • I farm in Calhoun County and haul my own cattle feed. Will you take the feed truck off the place?Calhoun County’s 257 farms, per USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, run largely on cattle, corn and cotton, and the trucks and trailers that serve them are ones we buy. Send the VIN, the body type and where on the property the truck is parked.
  • My company truck is one of a private fleet. Which person puts a name on the paperwork?FMCSA’s carrier census lists 36 private fleets among the 66 Port Lavaca carriers, and for any of them the person authorised by the company signs. Have the title in the company’s name and a letter naming that signer.

Sell your truck in Port Lavaca

We collect trucks across Port Lavaca and Calhoun County, from the liquid bulk docks east of town to the Long Mott and Bloomington rail yards and the farms inland.