Sand plant hauls
Sand and gravel pits south-east of Preston
Grayson County Sand & Gravel lies 13.1 miles south-east of Preston, on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list of operations. A dump truck or end-dump tractor that has worked that pit can stay parked where it last loaded; give us the yard address and the name of whoever holds the gate key.
Further out in the same direction, at about 20 miles, the Mine Safety and Health Administration records the Amrize Ambrose Sand Plant. If your rig split its hauls between Ambrose and the closer Grayson County pit, say which one it ran from most, and send photos of the bed, the hoist and the cab so we see the whole unit.
The RAY yard a short haul down the road
Two entries named RAY appear in the North American Rail Network, kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, at 7.9 and 8.6 miles south-east of Preston. A day cab that shuttled loads to that yard is a truck we collect, wherever it sits now.
Before we talk, find the VIN plate and read the odometer, then gather the registration and any service records you kept. With those four things in hand, a seller near the RAY tracks can answer almost every question we ask in a single call.
Stock trailers and grain trucks from Preston’s farm roads
Cattle head the list for Grayson County in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, which counts 2,851 farms across the county, with wheat second and equine third. Livestock haulers, grain trucks and tractors that pull horse trailers all fit what we buy from owners around Preston.
A truck kept on a ranch or a wheat field outside town does not need to come in to a paved lot. Tell us the gate, the field road and whether a tow rig can turn around near it, and we plan the pickup around the ground the truck is standing on.
Construction firms counted across the county
County Business Patterns from the Census Bureau puts Grayson County’s construction establishments at 24. Flatbeds, water trucks and tandem dumps that serve those contractors are part of what owners around Preston can sell to us directly.
If the truck belongs to a company rather than to you, have the person named on the title ready to sign, and note any equipment bolted to the chassis, such as a crane, a tank or a toolbox, so photos and description line up.
Tax office trip
A Preston owner’s errand to the Grayson County Tax Office
The Texas Department of Motor Vehicles handles titles through county tax assessor-collector offices, and for Preston that office is the Grayson County Tax Office in Sherman, ZIP 75090, 16.1 miles from town. Owners in Preston whose title has gone missing get the duplicate issued at that Sherman office, and it should be in hand by the time we load the truck.
Bring the VIN and your identification when you visit the Sherman counter, and ask for a certified copy of the title in the registered owner’s name. If a lender is still listed, a lien release from that lender goes with the replacement, and both travel with the truck when we collect it.
The questions we get asked in Preston
- My dump truck is still parked at the Grayson County Sand & Gravel pit; will you pick it up from the pit yard?Grayson County Sand & Gravel is 13.1 miles south-east of Preston on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list, and we collect from the pit itself. Give us the yard contact so access is set up before the tow rig arrives.
- Which office replaces a lost truck title for an owner in Preston, Texas?Preston’s county office for the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles is the Grayson County Tax Office in Sherman, 16.1 miles away. Ask the Sherman clerks for the duplicate, then set it beside the registration ready for collection day.
- I haul cattle out of Preston with a tractor and a stock trailer; will you buy the pair together?Grayson County’s 2,851 farms, counted by USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, list cattle first, and stock haulers from those operations are trucks we buy. Send photos of the tractor and the trailer separately, with each VIN, so both are covered.