A box truck or a tractor with a dry van is the kind of equipment that work produces, so have the title in your name and the registration current before you reach out.
Fresh produce is listed by 25 Roma carriers in the same FMCSA census, close behind the 24 that list machinery and large objects. If your truck pulled a reefer or hauled equipment on a lowboy, say which, and send us photos of the tractor and the trailer as they stand today.
Interstate authority is held by 37 of them and intrastate-only operation by 98, FMCSA records show. Either kind of authority is fine for a sale; just tell us the USDOT number tied to the truck so we can match the paperwork to the unit.
The biggest Roma fleet in FMCSA’s census runs 16 power units with 4 drivers; the next two run 6 trucks and 4 trucks. With more tractors than drivers, a spare unit can sit in a yard for a long stretch, and we can collect it from that yard without you there, as long as someone can open the gate.
Twenty-five Roma operations are private fleets, hauling their own goods rather than freight for hire, according to the federal carrier census. If the truck belongs to a business, bring a letter or resolution showing who may sign the title for the company.
If you started up recently and are now letting a truck go, a lien release from the lender is the document we will ask about first.
Note the odometer reading off the dash and send it with the VIN; those two numbers start every conversation we have about a truck.
In the carrier census, Roma operators count 80 drivers working within 100 miles of base and 120 driving beyond that radius. A truck on a long run may be parked far from Starr County when you decide to sell, so give us the city where it sits and we will plan collection there.
Whatever the year on your title, include it with your photos so the listing matches the truck.
Gravel pits east of Roma
Lopez Ready Mix Pit, a sand and gravel operation listed by the Mine Safety and Health Administration, lies 11.4 miles east of Roma. Dump trucks and mixers that work a pit like that often stay parked on site between loads, and we can pick one up from the pit lot if the operator lets us in.
Further out, the Alto Bonito Gravel Pit sits 24.1 miles east of town on MSHA’s mine list. If your dump truck is parked there, send the pit name and a phone number for whoever controls the gate along with the title.
Cattle, sorghum and corn in Starr County
Starr County holds 1,126 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, with cattle, sorghum and corn at the top of its output. Nineteen Roma carriers list grain, feed and hay as cargo with FMCSA, so a grain hopper tractor or a cattle-pot rig is a familiar sale for us here.
A farm truck can be titled to a ranch or to a family member rather than to the person who drove it. Check whose name is on the Texas title before you call, and if it is not yours, ask that person to be available to sign.
Census Bureau LEHD job counts put 2,240 jobs in Roma in 2023. Many trucks here sit at a home, a shop or a work site rather than a terminal, and any of those addresses is fine for a pickup.