Hunter Quarry, Hunter Stone and the south-west road
Two crushed-stone pits, Hunter Quarry at 7.1 miles and Hunter Stone at 8.1 miles, lie south-west of San Marcos on Mine Safety and Health Administration listings. If your dump truck or end-dump tractor is parked near either one, give us the yard address and the name of whoever holds the gate key, and we collect it there.
Further along that line, the Balcones Plant, a cement plant, sits 20.2 miles south-west and the Solms Operation, a sand and gravel site, 21.6 miles out, according to the Mine Safety and Health Administration. A mixer or bulk tractor that worked those sites can be sold from wherever it stands; send photos of the cab, the drum or trailer, the frame and the tires so what we see matches what you tell us.
North-east of town
Cement at Texas-Lehigh and fuel at Mustang Ridge
Texas-Lehigh Cement Plant & Quarry is 13.9 miles north-east of the city on Mine Safety and Health Administration listings. Pneumatic bulk tractors and mixer trucks that loaded there belong on the list of what we purchase; tell us which plant it served and keep any site safety paperwork with the title.
Per the Energy Information Administration, the Mustang Ridge Fuels terminal, a petroleum product terminal, lies 19.2 miles north-east. If your tractor pulled tank trailers out of it, have the VIN, the registration and any tank or DOT inspection reports ready when you call, since those answer the first questions we ask.
West of town, ROX, Inc. runs a dimension-stone quarry 21.4 miles away, as the Mine Safety and Health Administration records it. Flatbeds that carry cut stone off that site are trucks we collect too; a note of what the truck hauled helps us plan the right equipment for pickup.
Local carriers, most of them staying inside Texas
FMCSA’s carrier census counts 349 active carriers based in San Marcos, and 288 of them run intrastate against 61 interstate. If yours has only ever worked Texas roads, the Texas title and registration are all the ownership paperwork we need to see.
Of those 349, the same federal census shows 196 hauling general freight, 47 moving machinery and large objects, 34 carrying logs, poles, beams or lumber and 30 handling dry bulk commodities. Lowboys, log trailers and hopper tractors are all welcome; tell us the body type and the trailer when you first get in touch.
FMCSA’s carrier census also shows 106 carriers here running their own private trucks, with 1,048 drivers working within 100 miles and 617 working beyond it. A company truck that belongs to a business rather than a person needs the title in the business name and someone authorised to sign for it.
Inspected model years and yearly miles in San Marcos
FMCSA roadside inspection records from August 2024 to August 2026 cover 422 trucks tied to local carriers, with a median model year of 2015 and 55.2 percent at ten or more years old. Whatever the year on your title, put it with the VIN and the odometer reading in your first message.
Among 85 carriers that reported mileage to FMCSA’s carrier census, the median truck covered 32,620 miles a year. Have your service records and the current registration together before we talk; they let us confirm the truck’s history on the phone.
Low bridges, loading streets and Hays County jobs
Only one of the 89 San Marcos bridges in the National Bridge Inventory carries a load posting, and none sits below 14 feet. Tell us the exact street where the truck sits and whether a tow truck or lowboy can reach it, and we route the pickup around that posted bridge if it matters.
According to the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts for 2023, San Marcos had 41,271 jobs, 4,786 of them in transportation and warehousing, 2,374 in manufacturing, 751 in construction and 513 in wholesale trade. A box truck from a distribution job or a straight truck from a building contractor is as welcome as a tractor.
Builders, site-work outfits and other contractors make up 139 construction establishments in San Marcos, per the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns. If your dump truck, crane truck or flatbed belongs to one of those firms, gather the title, a lien release from any lender, and photos of each side before you contact us.
Cattle, horses and mushrooms in Hays County
USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 940 farms in Hays County, with mushrooms, cattle and horses as the leading products. A cattle hauler, a stock trailer tractor or a farm-plated straight truck parked on a ranch can be collected right there; give us the gate directions.
Ranch trucks are often titled to a family member or a farm partnership. Check whose name is on the Texas title before you call, and if the title has gone missing, start the replacement with the state’s title agency so the paperwork is in hand.
The questions we get asked in San Marcos
- My end-dump sits at a stone yard off the road toward Hunter Quarry; must I haul it into San Marcos first?There is no need to move it, since Hunter Quarry is 7.1 miles and Hunter Stone 8.1 miles south-west of the city on Mine Safety and Health Administration records and we collect from yards out there. Give us the name of the person who unlocks that quarry gate.
- I hauled cement from Texas-Lehigh but have since left Hays County; is selling from another state possible?It is, because the plant sits 13.9 miles north-east of San Marcos on Mine Safety and Health Administration records and the truck can stay parked near it; name a local contact for the gate and sign the paperwork from wherever you live.
- Do you buy trucks from intrastate carriers that never left Texas?We do: FMCSA’s carrier census shows 288 of the 349 active carriers in San Marcos working intrastate, and a Texas title in your name or your company’s name is what we need.