Gravel pits off the Seven Points side
The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists 2229 Seven Points, a sand and gravel operation, 4.4 miles west of Tool. A dump truck or end-dump that shuttles between that pit and job sites may well be parked at the pit itself on the day we collect, so tell us whether it sits inside a gated yard and who holds the key.
Another MSHA listing, King Sand & Gravel, lies 9.7 miles to the south-east. If your truck splits its days between the two pits, send photos taken where it is now parked, plus the VIN plate and the odometer, so we can plan a pickup at the right gate.
Patriot Mining and Materials, LLC, an industrial-mineral mine that the Mine Safety and Health Administration places 10.5 miles west, rounds out the extraction work near town. Trucks hauling for a mine site often carry their own site inspection sheets; keep those with the title, since they show where the truck has worked.
Thirteen small outfits, mostly staying in Texas
Of the 13 active carriers that FMCSA’s carrier census places in Tool, eleven stay inside Texas and just two haul interstate. For a seller here that usually means a Texas registration and a Texas title, which keeps the transfer simple: have the title and current registration in the same folder before you call.
According to the same FMCSA census, 4 of the 13 run private fleets hauling their own goods. If your truck belongs to a business rather than to you personally, have the name on the title match the business, and have someone who can sign for it ready.
Fleet sizes are small: the two largest outfits listed in the FMCSA census each run a single power unit, one with two drivers and one with one. An owner-operator selling the only truck in the business can arrange the whole sale by phone and photos from home.
Lumber, machinery and steel coil loads
General freight is the most common cargo among Tool carriers, at 7, with logs, poles, beams and lumber at 4, as recorded in FMCSA’s carrier census. A log truck or flatbed with stake pockets fits that pattern; mention any trailer that goes with the tractor so we plan the collection for both.
FMCSA’s registrations record machinery and large objects for 4 local carriers and metal sheets, coils and rolls for 3. Lowboys, step-decks and coil-rated flatbeds come from that work. Photograph the deck, the axles and the tractor’s fifth wheel along with the cab.
Builders are part of the picture too: the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns puts 48 construction establishments around this lakeside town. Dump trucks, water trucks and equipment haulers that serve those builders belong on the list of trucks we purchase, whether they are parked at a yard in town or at a job site.
Between October 2024 and August 2026, inspectors stopped 89 trucks tied to Tool, and FMCSA roadside inspection records put their median model year at 2014. Have the model year, make and engine on hand when you contact us; with the VIN those answer most of our first questions.
Just under two in three of those 89 trucks, roughly 63 percent by the roadside inspection count, were a decade or more past their model year. Whatever the year of yours, send a copy of its most recent inspection report or service log along with the photos.
Driver records in the carrier census show 15 drivers working within 100 miles of base and 13 working beyond that radius. A truck out on a long route can be collected wherever it is parked; give us the location and a contact on site.
Henderson County’s tax assessor-collector is the door to the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles for anyone selling from Tool. The Texas Department of Motor Vehicles lists that office, the Henderson County Tax Office, at 125 North Prairieville, Suite 103, Athens, about 19.3 miles from town.
If the title is lost or still shows a lienholder, start the replacement or lien release at that Athens office before the sale. Bring photo ID and the VIN; if a business owns the truck, bring proof that you can sign for it.
South-west and the farms
The HILL yard and cattle country around the lake
Twenty miles out, 20.2 to be exact, the HILL rail yard lies south-west of Tool on the North American Rail Network kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. A tractor that pulls loads to and from that yard can be collected where it is parked, as long as someone can let us onto the lot.
Across Henderson County, USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture records 1,891 farms, with cattle, equine and goats leading. Livestock haulers, stock trailers and ranch flatbeds parked on a property outside town are collected from the property; send the gate location and directions from the nearest paved road.