Quarries south-west of Rio Vista
Canfield Materials LLC., a crushed-stone quarry, lies 8.6 miles south-west of town on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list, with Blum Quarry, a dimension-stone site, just past it at 8.7 miles. A dump truck or end-dump tractor that has hauled out of either one is the kind of equipment we collect from a yard or a quarry gate. Send the VIN, the odometer reading and clear photos of the bed, the cab and the tires so we know the truck before we arrive.
Further out on the same bearing, Kimball Bend Plant 1202 works sand and gravel 11.5 miles away, while a crushed-stone operation called Plant & Quarry sits 11.6 miles due west, both per Mine Safety and Health Administration records. If your truck is parked at a pit rather than at home, give us the site name and the gate it sits behind, and we will arrange the pickup where it stands.
The rail yard and the liquid terminal up the road
Tractors that shuttle loads to and from a yard like that often spend their days as day cabs; tell us the axle setup and whether a fifth wheel or a flatbed is fitted.
Carry Transit, a liquid bulk terminal 12.7 miles north on the Bureau of Transportation Statistics roster, adds tank work to the mix in this corner of the county. If your tractor has pulled tank trailers in and out of there, keep any terminal inspection sheets with the title so the paperwork travels together.
According to FMCSA’s carrier census, 32 active carriers list a Rio Vista base; 25 of them operate only inside Texas, seven cross state lines, and 12 run private fleets hauling their own goods. Whichever group yours falls in, have the registration and your USDOT number to hand when you call.
General freight is named by 21 of those carriers in the FMCSA census, oilfield equipment by 14, and grain, feed and hay by 12, with another 12 listing machinery and large objects. A lowboy tractor, a flatbed hauler or a hay truck from any of those lines is equipment we take, and photos of the trailer coupling help us plan the load-out.
The single biggest operation registered here runs nine power units and eight drivers on FMCSA’s census, and the next two each run two trucks. Those are small outfits, so the owner selling is often the driver too; you can walk us through the truck yourself and we deal with you directly.
Seven Rio Vista carriers report annual mileage to FMCSA’s census, and their median is 20,000 miles a truck. Write down the current odometer figure before you contact us, since it is one of the first things we ask for along with the VIN.
Four new carriers registered in Rio Vista during 2025 per the FMCSA census, after none in 2024. If you are one of those newer operators and bought your truck recently, keep the bill of sale or the assigned title from that purchase with the truck; we will ask to see the chain of ownership.
Cleburne courthouse square
Take your ID and the VIN there to request a certified copy if the original title has gone missing.
If a lender still holds a lien on the truck, ask that office or the lender for the release paperwork first. A clear title in the seller’s name, a matching VIN on the frame, and current registration let us finish the purchase without a second visit.
Around Rio Vista, farm country runs deep: the USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 2,745 farms across Johnson County, with cattle, milk and corn as its top products. Livestock haulers, milk tankers and grain trucks off those farms are all trucks we collect, from a barn lot or a pasture gate as readily as a shop.
County Business Patterns from the Census Bureau records six construction establishments here as well, so dump trucks and equipment haulers turn up alongside the farm rigs. Tell us the body type and the GVWR on the door sticker when you send your photos.