Sand pits either side
Gravel north-east at GUN RANGE, south-west at Porter
The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists GUN RANGE, a sand and gravel operation, 7.4 miles north-east of Roman Forest, and Porter Plant & Pit 9.2 miles to the south-west. A dump truck or end-dump tractor that loads at either one may well be parked near the pit gate rather than at a house in town. Tell us which yard it sits in and who holds the key, and we plan the collection around that site.
Further out, Dolen Plant is an industrial-mineral mine 11.2 miles north-east on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s register, and Conroe Dryer Plant sits 13.2 miles west by that same federal listing. If your truck has hauled for plants like these, photos of the bed, the hoist and the cab, plus the VIN, let us talk about that exact unit from the first call.
Processing sites east
Moss Hill, ACE Portable and the haul roads beyond
Liberty Materials Moss Hill Plant, a mineral processing plant, is 11.5 miles east by the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s listing, and ACE Portable Plant is 15.6 miles to the north-east. Haul trucks that rotate between those two can end their week at either. Send the address where the truck is parked today, even if that is a plant lot outside Roman Forest; we come to it.
A portable plant moves, so a truck that served ACE Portable may have finished a job somewhere else entirely. Give us the registration and the name on the title along with the location, and the sale runs from wherever you are.
Tracks and tanks south-west
From Roman Forest toward the LLOYD rail yard
South-west of town, LLOYD is a rail yard 17.7 miles away on the North American Rail Network kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Day cabs that shuttle loads to a yard like that often stay parked near it between runs, so say whether yours is at home in Roman Forest or out by the tracks.
The Energy Information Administration records NORTH HOUSTON, a petroleum product terminal, 19 miles to the south-west. For a tractor that has pulled from that terminal, keep its service records and any site inspection sheets together; they travel with the truck and answer questions before they are asked.
Coil, lumber, freight
General freight, machinery, steel coil and lumber
Of the 346 carriers that FMCSA’s carrier census places in Roman Forest, 242 list general freight. That census also shows 55 hauling machinery and large objects, 51 carrying metal sheets, coils and rolls, and 45 moving logs, poles, beams and lumber. Box trucks, flatbeds, lowboy tractors and log trucks are all part of what we buy here.
Lumber and coil haulers often run step-decks or flatbeds with chains and binders on board. When you send photos, include the deck and the tractor’s VIN plate so the listing of equipment is clear on the first look.
Intrastate fleets outnumber the interstate ones
Intrastate carriers number 244 in Roman Forest against 102 interstate ones, according to FMCSA’s carrier census, and 81 of the town’s operators are private fleets. A truck that never left Texas still needs its title and current registration ready for the sale.
The same federal census counts 275 drivers working inside a hundred-mile radius and 404 beyond it. FMCSA mileage reports from 94 Roman Forest carriers put the median tractor at 48,948 miles a year. Long-haul tractors can be anywhere when you call, so tell us the city and lot where yours is parked.
New registrations in Roman Forest went from 26 in 2024 to 49 in 2025 on FMCSA’s carrier census. Its three biggest local operators run 50, 43 and 19 power units by the same census; a fleet selling several tractors at once can send one list of VINs and locations.
Roadside stops logged
FMCSA roadside inspection records show 344 trucks from Roman Forest carriers inspected between August 2024 and August 2026, with a median model year of 2014, and about 61 percent of those inspected trucks were ten or more model years old.
Whatever the year on yours, the VIN, the odometer reading and a set of clear photos from all four sides are the first things to send. Inspection reports from roadside stops can sit with the title in the same folder.
Certified copies via San Jacinto St, Conroe
Titles in Texas come from the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles through county tax assessor-collector offices. For Roman Forest, the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles points to the Montgomery County Tax Office at 400 N San Jacinto St, Conroe, 77301, 20.4 miles from town. If the title is missing, ask there for a certified copy before the sale.
Bring the VIN and your identification to the Conroe counter. If a lender’s lien still shows, its release letter belongs with the new copy.
Builders, warehouses and cattle land
Builders based around Roman Forest number 58 on the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns, which also lists 4 warehousing firms nearby. Dump trucks, flatbeds and box trucks working for those firms are trucks we collect from job sites as readily as from driveways.
Across Montgomery County, USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture records 1,299 farms, with cattle, equine and mushroom operations at the top. Livestock haulers and farm flatbeds parked on a ranch near Roman Forest can stay there; give us the gate directions.
The questions we get asked in Roman Forest
- Could my end-dump be collected straight from the Porter Plant & Pit lot south-west of Roman Forest?Porter Plant & Pit is 9.2 miles south-west of Roman Forest on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list, and we collect from the pit lot. Name the Porter contact with a gate key when you write.
- Would you take a lumber or log-hauling tractor based at Roman Forest?Forty-five Roman Forest carriers list logs, poles, beams and lumber on FMCSA’s carrier census, and their tractors and trailers are trucks we buy. Photograph the bunks, the tractor and its VIN plate and send them over.