Ralls and its surrounding farm roads are home base for 16 active motor carriers on FMCSA’s carrier census. Six of them list general freight and six list grain, feed and hay, so a tractor from this town has as good a chance of having pulled a hopper as a dry van. When you contact us, say which trailer the truck usually hooked to; it tells us how the fifth wheel and the air lines are set up before we see a photo.
Farm supplies appear on five of those registrations and dry bulk commodities on three, according to the same federal census. A Ralls truck that has hauled fertilizer, seed or bulk feed is one we buy just as readily as a highway tractor. Have the registration and the title in the same folder, and note whether a trailer is part of the sale or stays behind.
Mostly in-state work, often for the owner’s own operation
FMCSA’s census shows 14 of the local registrations running intrastate only and 2 crossing state lines. That means the truck you are selling has most likely stayed in Texas, and it is probably parked at a farm, a shop or a yard close to town. Give us that address and any gate or lock details, and we plan the collection around it.
Nine of those registrations are private fleets, the federal census records, which is the shape of a farm or a business moving its own goods rather than freight for hire. If the truck is titled to the farm or a company rather than to you personally, tell us at the start so the right person signs. Bring the name exactly as it appears on the title.
Driver records filed with FMCSA put 19 drivers on local runs and 21 on longer trips beyond a hundred-mile radius, close to an even split. A tractor from the longer-haul side may have a sleeper; a local unit is more often a day cab. Either way, photos of the cab, the frame rails and the tires let us understand the truck from the first message.
Owner-operators and a handful of eight-truck outfits
The biggest operation on FMCSA’s census in Ralls runs eight power units with fifteen drivers, and the next two run six and four trucks. Selling one truck out of a group like that works the same as selling a single unit: send the VIN for each truck you want gone, and we take them one title at a time.
If your small fleet is retiring several trucks across a season, list them together in one message with their locations. Crosby County roads mean the units may be spread across separate farms or shops, and knowing every address up front lets us collect them in a sensible order.
Module trucks, cattle trailers and grain hoppers
Around Ralls, cotton, cattle and corn lead the 440 farms that USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts in Crosby County. Module trucks, cattle haulers and grain tractors all come out of that mix. If yours spent harvest seasons in the field, tell us what it pulled and where it is stored between seasons.
A truck that only moves at harvest often sits in a barn for months with its paperwork in a farm office drawer. Before you reach out, find the title, the last registration sticker and any service receipts you kept. Seasonal trucks are welcome; we just need to know where to find them and who holds the title.
Gravel pits to the north and south-west, Slaton’s yard beyond
The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists Damron Sand, a sand and gravel operation 19.3 miles south-west of Ralls, and Ross Pit, a crushed-stone quarry 19.9 miles to the north. Dump trucks and end-dump tractors that worked those pits fall squarely within what we purchase. Tell us the body type and bed length when you write.
South-west of town by 21.9 miles, Slaton’s rail yard appears on the North American Rail Network kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Trucks that shuttle grain or freight to that yard are part of the local picture too. If your unit is parked in Slaton rather than Ralls, we collect it there.
County Business Patterns from the Census Bureau show 3 construction establishments in the Ralls area, and the LEHD job counts put local employment at 307 jobs in 2023. Small contractors’ dump trucks and service bodies come from that base; send a photo of the body along with the cab.
Titles in Texas come from the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles, handled locally through the county tax assessor-collector offices. A Ralls seller missing a title deals with the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles through the Crosby County Tax Office at 201 W. Aspen, Ste 100, Crosbyton, 79322, 8.4 miles from Ralls, on the Department of Motor Vehicles’ county office list. If the title has gone missing, that office is where you start a certified copy.
Take your driver’s license and the VIN to Crosbyton, and if a bank once held a lien, bring the release letter. A truck can still be listed with us while the copy is on its way; say so in your first message, and the sale waits until the title is in your hand.
The questions we get asked in Ralls
- Will you take a module truck that hauled cotton around Ralls?Cotton tops the farm list for Crosby County in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, and module trucks from around Ralls are ones we purchase. Photos of the module bed and the VIN get a Ralls cotton truck started with us.
- My dump truck sits at a pit outside Ralls rather than in town - is that a problem for pickup?Damron Sand and Ross Pit, both about 20 miles from Ralls on Mine Safety and Health Administration listings, are the kind of sites we collect from. Tell us which pit, the gate arrangements and who can meet the driver.
- Our Ralls farm runs several trucks - can a few go at once?Nine of the 16 Ralls-area carriers on FMCSA’s census are private fleets, and a group sale works fine. Send each VIN beside the farm or shop where that truck is parked around Ralls.