Tenaha log tractors and pole trailers
Of the 34 active carriers based in Tenaha on FMCSA’s carrier census, 17 list logs, poles, beams or lumber among the cargo they move. If your truck is a log tractor or pulls a pole trailer, tell us the trailer setup and whether the knuckle boom or bunks stay with the sale, so the pickup crew brings the right equipment.
General freight shows up on 13 of those Tenaha carrier records, according to the same federal census. A day cab or sleeper that runs mixed freight between the timber jobs is just as welcome; send the VIN, a photo of the odometer and a few shots of the cab and frame.
Oilfield equipment and the Center fuel terminal
Oilfield equipment appears as cargo for six local outfits listed in FMCSA’s census of registered operators. A winch truck, gin-pole rig or flatbed that has worked well sites can sit at a lease road or a yard when we collect it; give us the location and any gate or access instructions up front.
The Energy Information Administration lists a petroleum product terminal at Center, roughly 11.7 miles south-east of Tenaha. Fuel haulers that load there and park in town are trucks we buy, so mention the tank trailer, if one goes with it, when you first get in touch.
Twenty carriers here hold intrastate authority and 13 run interstate, the FMCSA census shows, with nine operating as private fleets that move their own goods. Whichever kind of operation your truck came from, the paperwork we ask for is the same: the title, current registration and any service records you kept.
Drivers working inside a hundred-mile radius number 41 on the carrier census, against 27 who range farther. For the 11 local carriers that reported mileage to FMCSA, the median comes to 64,900 miles per truck a year; have your own odometer reading handy, because it is one of the first things we ask.
The biggest fleet based in Tenaha runs 12 power units with nine drivers on FMCSA’s census, followed by outfits of eight and six trucks. Selling one truck out of a handful works the same as selling a whole yard: list each unit’s VIN and where it is parked, and we arrange collection truck by truck.
New authorities are still appearing in town, with three carriers registering in 2025 and one in 2024 according to the federal carrier census. An owner-operator closing up or switching rigs can sell the tractor here without bringing it anywhere.
Between November 2024 and August 2026, inspectors stopped 28 trucks belonging to Tenaha outfits, and FMCSA’s roadside inspection records show the middle model year among them was 2015. FMCSA’s roadside inspection records put 53.6 percent of the inspected trucks at ten or more model years old; whatever the year on your title, note it with the make and model when you write to us.
If you have the last inspection report from a roadside stop or annual check, keep it with the title. It gives us a record of the truck alongside your photos and saves questions later.
Pasture and barn lot
Cattle and hog hauling near Tenaha
Shelby County counts 799 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, with cattle, hogs and horses as the leading livestock. Five Tenaha carriers also list farm supplies on FMCSA’s census, so a cattle pot, a stock trailer rig or a feed truck parked at a ranch gate is the kind of truck we pick up.
A ranch truck often sits in a pasture or barn lot rather than a paved yard. Tell us how the truck can be reached and whether the title is in the ranch’s name or yours, and we will plan around it.
A missing Tenaha title gets reissued by the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles, working through its county tax assessor-collector offices. The office serving this town, per the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles, is the Shelby County Tax Office, 200 San Augustine St, Center, 75935, an 11-mile drive south-east.
Ask there for a certified copy if the original title is missing, and bring the VIN and your identification. Where a bank or finance company still sits on the Tenaha title, bring its signed lien release too.
The questions we get asked in Tenaha
- Will you collect a truck parked at an oil lease or ranch?Tenaha trucks work timber tracts, well sites and Shelby County’s 799 farms counted by USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, so we collect where the truck sits. Mention any cattle guard or locked gate on the way in.
- Is a 2015-or-earlier Tenaha truck something you collect?Trucks from Tenaha carriers checked in FMCSA roadside inspection records had a median model year of 2015. Your own title shows the year; send it with photos of the cab and frame.