Frac sand and quarries north-east of Wink
The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists Atlas Sand Kermit South Plant, a sand and gravel operation, 6.1 miles north-east of Wink, with Wall Street Sand Co at 7.8 miles and Kermit Sand, a crushed-stone quarry, at 8 miles in the same direction. A tractor or dump truck that cycles between those gates and the lease roads is often parked at a plant yard or a drilling pad rather than in town. Send us the site name and a gate contact, and we arrange collection at that spot.
Further north, Atlas 874/115 Mine sits 11.3 miles out and Kermit Mine, an industrial-mineral operation, 14.3 miles out, both on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s register. If your truck hauled from either one, send photos taken where it stands, showing the cab, the frame and the bed or fifth wheel.
East of town, the Monahans Facility, a mineral processing plant, is 22.4 miles from Wink according to the Mine Safety and Health Administration. Sellers whose trucks shuttled sand to that plant can list the run in their first message so our questions start from the work the truck actually did.
Twenty carriers, most hauling oilfield gear
Twenty active carriers are based in Wink on FMCSA’s carrier census, and 11 of them list oilfield equipment as cargo, next to 13 that list general freight. Winch trucks, flatbeds and bed trucks that move rig parts fit that mix, so describe the body and any mounted equipment when you contact us, along with the VIN.
Five Wink carriers carry machinery and large objects, and three haul logs, poles, beams and lumber, according to FMCSA’s carrier census. Lowboys and step-decks from those outfits are trucks we collect too; tell us the trailer type and whether it is staying with the tractor or going separately.
Of the twenty, 15 run only inside Texas and 5 cross state lines, while 10 are private fleets hauling their own goods, per that FMCSA register. An intrastate truck still needs its Texas title in the seller’s name, so check the name on it matches the registration before we schedule a visit.
One Wink fleet runs 13 power units with 18 drivers, another 10 units with 4 drivers, and a third 9 units with 2 drivers, as FMCSA’s carrier census records them. If you are letting go of several trucks from a fleet that size, send a list of VINs together and we can look at them as one collection.
In FMCSA’s carrier census, six Wink carriers report mileage, with a median of 16,154 miles per truck a year. Put the current odometer reading in your message as a plain figure; it is one of the first things we ask for, alongside the title.
For drivers, FMCSA’s census counts 40 working within 100 miles of their base and 11 working beyond it. A truck on short local runs often ends the day near Wink, and that is where we would meet it.
Oil, gas and trucking jobs in Wink
Mining, quarrying and oil and gas extraction account for 72 of the 201 jobs counted in Wink in 2023, a 35.8 percent share in the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts. Trucks tied to that work, from service rigs’ support vehicles to water and sand haulers, are part of what we buy, and the service records you kept for the operator help us understand the truck.
Transportation and warehousing hold 63 of those jobs, or 31.3 percent, by the same LEHD figures from the Census Bureau. Owner-operators and drivers leaving a hauling job can sell the tractor they own outright; have the title, current registration and any inspection records together.
Ranching also runs through Winkler County, where USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 38 farms with cattle as the leading product. A stock trailer puller or a ranch flatbed is welcome; photos of the truck where it sits on the place are enough to begin.
If the title is missing, request a certified copy there before you sell, and bring identification and the VIN.
Kermit’s tax office, 7.9 miles out, is about as far from Wink as Kermit Sand at 8 miles on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list. If your truck is parked at a plant yard up that way, pick up the replacement title on the same trip and photograph it beside the cab. Once you hold it, send us a photo of the front of the title with the VIN visible.
Trucks that drop sand or pipe at transload sites near that yard are often parked there between loads, and we can collect from a rail-side lot as easily as from a driveway.
Give us the yard or lot name, who holds the keys and whether a loaded trailer is attached. With those three answers and your title in hand, the rest of the collection can be arranged around where the truck already is.
The questions we get asked in Wink
- Do you buy oilfield trucks with mounted equipment?Oilfield equipment is the cargo for 11 of Wink’s 20 active carriers on FMCSA’s carrier census, and trucks with winches, beds or other mounted gear are ones we buy. List the equipment and send photos of it.