Two sand and gravel pits on the Dallas side
Drive 12.5 miles west from Talty toward Dallas and you reach Beltline Pit, which the Mine Safety and Health Administration lists as a sand and gravel operation. Dump trucks and end dumps that haul aggregate out of a pit like that are trucks we buy, and if yours is parked at the pit gate rather than at home, tell us so we can arrange access with whoever runs the site.
Post Oak No 1 sits 15.3 miles west, another sand and gravel site the Mine Safety and Health Administration lists. If your tractor or dump body has hauled from either of these two operations, send photos of the bed, the hoist, the cab and the VIN plate, and have the Texas title in hand when you call.
Dallas drayage lanes
Containers off the Mesquite and Wilmer tracks
The Bureau of Transportation Statistics places the Dallas, TX - Mesquite intermodal ramp 15.9 miles west of town, and the North American Rail Network shows the DALLAS TOFC yard at 16.2 miles in the same direction. Day cabs that shuttle containers and trailers off those tracks are part of what we collect, so give us the VIN, the odometer reading and the yard or lot where the tractor now stands.
Further southwest, the Wilmer ramp known as the Dallas Intermodal Terminal is 17.9 miles out on the Bureau of Transportation Statistics list, with its rail yard at 18.1 miles on the Federal Railroad Administration’s network map. A drayage tractor parked near Wilmer does not need to come back to Kaufman County; we pick it up where it sits once you name a contact who can open the gate.
Quarry and rack
Wills Point quarry and the PAR fuel rack
Heading the other way, Wills Point Lester Plant 1655 is a crushed-stone quarry 18.9 miles east of Talty, according to the Mine Safety and Health Administration. Rock haulers and belly-dump tractors from that run are welcome, and a set of photos showing the trailer coupled to the tractor helps us see the whole rig.
PAR TRUCK RACK, a petroleum product terminal the Energy Information Administration records 24.4 miles west, loads tank trucks bound for stations and job sites. If yours is a tanker or a tractor that pulled one from that rack, list the trailer and any tank inspection records along with the tractor’s registration.
One Talty job in five is construction
Of 241 jobs located in Talty in 2023 by the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts, construction held 50, or 20.7 percent. Flatbeds, dump trucks, water trucks and box trucks that serve those crews all fit what we buy, whether the truck is parked at a shop, a yard or a house.
Builders and contractors who are shedding a truck can leave it at the job site or their own lot. Have the registration and any service records ready, and tell us whether a loader or ramp is on hand if the truck carries equipment.
Pasture gates
Cattle, horses and deer across the county
Talty’s surrounding farmland counts 2,478 farms across Kaufman County in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, where cattle, equine and deer rank as the leading livestock. Trucks that pull stock trailers and haul feed from those operations are trucks we collect from the barn or the pasture gate.
If the truck sits on a ranch road, send a pin or directions along with photos, and say whether the gate is locked. A farm-plated truck still needs its Texas title to change hands.
Kaufman County Tax Office, nine miles away
The Texas Department of Motor Vehicles handles titles through county tax assessor-collector offices, and for Talty sellers that is the Kaufman County Tax Office at 100 N. Washington St. in the county seat of Kaufman, 75142, a nine-mile drive from Talty on the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles office list. A missing title is replaced there before the sale.
Bring photo ID and the VIN when you visit the tax office in Kaufman, and if a lender is still on the title, ask the lender for a lien release first so the replacement title prints clear.
The questions we get asked in Talty
- Can you collect an end dump that stays at Beltline Pit west of Talty?Beltline Pit sits 12.5 miles west of Talty on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list, and we collect the truck right there. Give us the name of someone at the site who can let us in.
- Which Kaufman County office reissues a title a Talty owner has misplaced?The Texas Department of Motor Vehicles lists the Kaufman County Tax Office, 9 miles from Talty, as the county tax assessor-collector office that replaces titles, and it stands at 100 N. Washington St. in Kaufman, the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles notes.
- Do you take day cabs that work the Mesquite rail ramp?The Mesquite intermodal ramp lies 15.9 miles west on the Bureau of Transportation Statistics list, and drayage day cabs from it are trucks we buy. Send the VIN and photos and tell us where the tractor is parked.