The Taylor rail yard and the terminals north-west of town
Just 0.8 miles south-east of downtown, the Taylor rail yard shows up on the North American Rail Network that the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics maintain. If your tractor is parked by that yard, name the street or lot when you reach us and say whether a gate has to be opened for the pickup.
Two petroleum product terminals appear in Energy Information Administration listings north-west of Taylor: Taylor Terminal at 3.3 miles and a second Taylor terminal at 4 miles. If your tractor has pulled fuel tankers between those terminals and stations in the county, keep its hazmat endorsement paperwork, tank inspection certificates and registration together, and photograph the tractor and the trailer coupling so both are on record before we arrive.
Quarries and pits from True Materials to Georgetown
Mine Safety and Health Administration records show True Materials, a sand and gravel operation, 9.9 miles north of Taylor. Dump trucks and end-dump tractors that haul from a pit like that can be collected at the yard where they are kept; send us the site address and a phone number for whoever holds the keys.
Farther out, the Mine Safety and Health Administration lists the Georgetown Qy & Plt and WEIR PLANT crushed-stone quarries at 17.4 and 17.6 miles west, North Austin Quarry at 18.3 miles north-west, and Bernardo’s Pit #2, a dimension-stone quarry, at 18.7 miles north-west. For an aggregate truck based near any of them, photos of the bed, the cab interior and the VIN plate, plus the Texas title, let us identify it without a site visit first.
Grain, freight and machinery haulers on Taylor’s FMCSA roll
FMCSA’s carrier census counts 138 active carriers based in Taylor, with 119 of them operating intrastate, 19 crossing state lines and 48 registered as private fleets. A private fleet truck that hauls for its owner’s own business sells the same way as a for-hire one: the title in the company’s name and a signature from someone authorized to sign for it.
Of those Taylor carriers, 76 list general freight on their FMCSA registrations, 36 list grain, feed and hay, 24 list machinery and large objects, and 23 list farm supplies. Lowboys, flatbeds, hopper-bottom setups and van tractors all fit those cargo lines, and each is something we collect from Taylor shops, farms and yards.
The carrier census also shows 12 new Taylor carriers registered in 2025 and 5 in 2024, and the three biggest local fleets list 20, 18 and 15 power units. If you are selling several units at once, give us the VIN for each, and we can arrange the collection of a whole group from one address.
Roadside checks, annual mileage and how far Taylor drivers go
Between August 2024 and August 2026, 102 trucks from Taylor carriers passed through FMCSA roadside inspection records; their median model year was 2016.5, and 45.1 percent dated back ten model years or more. Whatever the year of your truck, the details we ask for are the same: year, make, model, VIN and the reading on the odometer.
Across 30 Taylor carriers reporting mileage to FMCSA, the median comes to 49,653 miles per truck per year. Note your current odometer figure in your first message and attach a photo of the dash showing it, so the number you give and the number we see agree.
According to FMCSA registrations, Taylor carriers employ 161 drivers who stay within 100 miles and 127 who go beyond that radius. A tractor that ranges far from Williamson County may be away when you decide to sell, so tell us where it will be parked on the day it is free.
Plant jobs, contractors and corn and cattle farms
Of the 5,982 Taylor jobs in the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts for 2023, construction held 632, manufacturing 622, wholesale trade 242, and transportation and warehousing 173. Dump trucks, flatbeds and box trucks owned by a business are commercial trucks we buy, just as we buy from an owner-operator.
Contractors are a steady presence around Taylor, where the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns tallies 67 construction establishments. When a contractor sells a truck, have the title, the current registration and a note of who in the company can sign the transfer ready before collection.
USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 2,352 farms in Williamson County, with corn, cattle and deer at the top of its list. Grain trucks, cattle haulers and farm tractors parked on rural property outside Taylor can be picked up there; give us directions to the barn or field gate along with the title.
The questions we get asked in Taylor
- My tractor is parked a few blocks from the Taylor rail yard. Can it stay put until you collect it?The Taylor rail yard sits 0.8 miles south-east of town on the North American Rail Network, and we collect trucks parked near it where they stand. Tell us the lot and whoever controls access.
- I hauled from the quarries west toward Georgetown. Will you buy a dump truck from there?Georgetown Qy & Plt lies 17.4 miles west of Taylor in Mine Safety and Health Administration listings, and dump trucks working that stretch are among the trucks we buy. Send the VIN, bed and cab photos, and the name printed on the Texas title.
- Will you collect a grain truck from a Williamson County farm outside Taylor?Williamson County holds 2,352 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, and grain trucks and livestock haulers from those farms are trucks we collect. Tell us the farm road and gate.