South-east to the yards
Trigg Street and the Texarkana yard, both within nine miles
Trigg Street, a rail yard just 7.3 miles south-east of Red Lick’s crossroads, shows up on the North American Rail Network that the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics maintain. A day cab that shuttles freight to and from a yard that close often spends its nights in a driveway in town rather than at a terminal, so tell us which of the two it is parked at when you get in touch.
A second yard, listed simply as Texarkana, lies 8.1 miles out along that same south-east line on the North American Rail Network. If your tractor has worked between the two, send a photo of the cab, the fifth wheel, each axle’s tires and the VIN plate when you first get in touch.
Rail-side work in this corner of the state also tends to leave a paper trail: dispatch logs, gate passes, annual inspection reports. None of it is required, but if those sheets are in the glovebox, keep them with the truck for the day we collect it.
West toward the depot
Hauling along the road to Red River Army Depot
Eleven point seven miles west of town, the Red River Army Depot appears in Bureau of Transportation Statistics listings as a military installation. Owners whose trucks have hauled on contract there sometimes park them near the gate road rather than at home; if that is where yours sits, give us the address and the name of whoever can let a driver onto the lot.
Flatbeds, lowboys and box trucks that served the depot can all be sold to us from where they stand. Have the registration card and the title together before pickup, and note any equipment that comes off the truck, such as tie-down racks or a liftgate, so the listing matches what we load.
Gunn Lake Sand
Dump trucks out past the depot
Head 22.9 miles west of Red Lick, past the depot, and you reach Gunn Lake Sand, a sand and gravel pit on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s roll. Tandem dumps and end-dump trailers that cycle between a pit like that and job sites around Texarkana are the kind of equipment we take on regularly.
When you contact us about a dump truck, tell us the bed length, whether the hoist and tailgate work as fitted, and where the unit is parked, whether at the pit, a yard or your property. A clear shot of the bed from the side and one of the door sticker answer most of what we would otherwise ask by phone.
Cattle, horses, deer
Farm trucks across the pastures around Red Lick
Around Red Lick, livestock leads: USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 1,267 farms in Bowie County, with cattle, equine and deer as the top three categories. Stock trailers, flatbed haulers and older single-axle farm trucks working that kind of operation are welcome here.
A truck that has spent years on a pasture or behind a barn does not have to be moved to the road for us. Tell us how a driver reaches it, whether there is a gate code, and whether the ground is firm enough for a rollback, and we plan the collection around the farm.
A Red Lick title copy comes through the Bowie County Tax Office
Titles in Texas are issued by the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles, which handles them through county tax assessor-collector offices. For a Red Lick owner, the nearest is the Bowie County Tax Office at 710 James Bowie Dr, New Boston, 75570, which the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles places 14.1 miles from town.
If the title has gone missing, start a certified copy request with that office before you contact us, and bring your ID and the VIN. Once the copy is in hand, the rest of the sale moves on the paperwork you already hold: registration, any lien release, and the keys.
The questions we get asked in Red Lick
- Our tractor sits on a lot by Trigg Street; does it have to come back to Red Lick before you collect it?Trigg Street sits 7.3 miles south-east of Red Lick on the North American Rail Network, and we can collect it right there. Let us know the lot owner and how to reach the gate.
- The title for my rig went missing somewhere around Red Lick. Who in Bowie County prints a new one?Red Lick owners use the Bowie County Tax Office at 710 James Bowie Dr in New Boston, a county tax assessor-collector office the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles lists 14.1 miles from town. Request the copy there, then reach out to us.
- Do you take dump trucks from the sand and gravel pits west of town?Gunn Lake Sand, listed by the Mine Safety and Health Administration 22.9 miles west, is the kind of site those trucks serve, and we buy tandem dumps and end-dumps from it and from other pits nearby.