Ecleto Creek, Gillett and the haul roads out of Stockdale
Nine and a half miles north of Stockdale, the Mine Safety and Health Administration lists Ecleto Creek Mine, an industrial-mineral operation. A dump truck or end-dump tractor that has worked that pit may be parked at the site or back at a yard in town when we collect it, so tell us which, and send the gate address if it sits out at the mine.
South-east of town, roughly twelve miles out, sits the Gillett Plant, a crushed-stone quarry on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s register. Quarry trucks often carry a scale ticket trail and a service log; keep those with the title and registration so the history travels with the truck.
Abrego, another industrial-mineral mine that the Mine Safety and Health Administration records about 19 miles south-west, rounds out the pits within an hour’s drive. If your truck splits its days between more than one of these sites, list them all when you reach out.
Mission Rail Park and Alamo Junction on the San Antonio side
The North American Rail Network, kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, places Mission Rail Park about 20 miles west of Stockdale. A tractor that shuttles loads to that rail yard can be picked up wherever it ends the week, whether that is in town or at a drop lot near the park.
Alamo Junction Rail Park Yard lies about 23 miles west, per the same North American Rail Network records. For a day cab that has worked transload runs there, send photos of the cab, frame, fifth wheel and tires along with the VIN.
Stockdale’s in-state haulers and their grain, farm and machinery loads
Of the 63 Stockdale carriers on FMCSA’s carrier census, only 7 haul interstate, leaving 56 that keep their loads on Texas roads. For most sellers here that means a Texas registration and Texas title are the papers that matter, so have both in hand.
Grain, feed and hay is the cargo listed by 19 of those carriers in FMCSA’s carrier census, with farm supplies and machinery each named by 13 and general freight by 27. A hopper-bottom trailer rig, a lowboy tractor or a flatbed straight truck all fit that mix, and we buy each of them.
Private fleets account for 32 of the town’s carriers on FMCSA’s census, meaning a farm, ranch or contractor running its own trucks rather than hauling for hire. If yours is one of them, the business name on the title should match whoever signs it over.
Stockdale tractors as the inspection lanes record them
Across 143 trucks stopped between September 2024 and August 2026, FMCSA roadside inspection records put the median model year at 2022, with about 17 percent of them ten or more years old. Whatever the year of yours, the VIN and an odometer photo are the two details to send first.
A Stockdale truck logs a median 19,414 miles a year, based on the eleven local outfits that filed mileage with FMCSA’s carrier census. In FMCSA’s carrier census, Stockdale drivers split between 128 who stay within 100 miles and 236 who go farther; tell us whether your truck is at home or out on a route when you call.
Stockdale’s heavyweight carriers
Fleets of a hundred-plus power units near Stockdale
Two Stockdale carriers each list more than 100 power units in FMCSA’s carrier census, one with 137 tractors and 54 drivers and another with 114 of each, alongside a third at 21 units. Selling several trucks at once works the same way as selling one: a list of VINs, titles in the company name and where each unit is parked.
New registrations have kept coming, too: FMCSA’s carrier census logs 7 carriers added in 2025 after 3 in 2024. An owner-operator who started recently and is now moving on can sell a late-model tractor here with the same title and registration as anyone else.
Farm county freight
Stockdale’s ranch and row-crop hauling
Around Stockdale, cattle, corn and cotton lead the 2,503 farms that USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts in Wilson County. Livestock trailers, grain trucks and module haulers tied to that farm work are all trucks we collect, from a barn lot or a field gate as easily as a yard.
Local work beyond the farms is modest in scale: the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts show 384 jobs in town for 2023, and County Business Patterns lists 18 construction establishments in the county. Dump and flatbed trucks from those contractors can be sold with a title and current registration.
Getting a copy of a Stockdale truck’s title
The Texas Department of Motor Vehicles issues certified copies of titles through the county tax assessor-collector offices, so a Stockdale owner missing the paper starts at the Wilson County tax office. Bring photo ID and the VIN, and bring the lienholder’s release letter if the title once listed a lender.
A truck titled to a farm or ranch business needs the copy requested in that business’s name through the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles process. Once the replacement is in hand, it signs over to us like any original title.
The questions we get asked in Stockdale
- Will you pick up a truck parked out at Ecleto Creek Mine or the Gillett Plant?Ecleto Creek Mine sits about nine miles north and the Gillett Plant about twelve miles south-east of Stockdale on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list, and we collect from either. Pass along the pit’s street address and who opens the gate.
- A Stockdale truck’s title has gone missing; which office replaces it?Wilson County’s tax assessor-collector office handles title copies for the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles. Take ID and the VIN, plus the lienholder’s release letter if the title once listed a lender.
- Will you take a Stockdale cattle hauler or grain truck?Grain, feed and hay is hauled by 19 of Stockdale’s 63 active carriers in FMCSA’s carrier census, and cattle top the farm list in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture for Wilson County. We buy the trucks and tractors that do that work.
- Can a Stockdale ranch or contractor hand over a whole group of trucks together?Stockdale’s two biggest carriers list 137 and 114 power units in FMCSA’s carrier census, and fleet sales are handled the same way as single trucks. Send a VIN list, the titles in the company name and each truck’s location.