Sold Truck Issue

Location: Texas

I sold my late dad's truck back on July 10, 2026. My sister had been driving it and accruing tolls on it and I kept telling her to stop because she can t expect me to pay all these tolls because she wants a shortcut. She continued...

When my primary vehicle needed service I sold the truck to help pay the cost. By the time I sold it she had maybe $400 $500 in tolls. The buyer knew of this and I had to knock off that cost off my selling price. I signed and dated the title. He paid me in cash, and he's gone. After he left I entered a title transfer notice on the DMV website and took a pic of the page.

Months later I found it odd I kept getting mail for the toll roads. The outside said "zero fee" so I was just thinking he didn't transfer for whatever reason and was just paying as he went. Last week I finally opened one and sat a stack of tolls, maybe 5 or 6 a day. I called the toll road and they told me I now owe around $1300 in tolls. I told them I no longer had he truck but I would pay all the tolls accrued before July 10 and had proof I had sold the truck. They gave me an email to submit to and said to provide what I had there. I submitted the pic I had and they came back to me saying they wanted a certified copy of that or a bill of sale. I dont have a bill of sale. I thought the DMV submission would be proof enough as I filed it that day.

Here is the deal, I called the dmv and frantically searched my email and have no contact from them about my submission. I am screwed on that... I will have to come up with some way to pay his tolls BUT he meanwhile is STILL going through tolls daily. I resubmitted the title transfer last Monday and still have no email or phone contact from the DMV despite again having a receipt copy of the submission.

I was just told by my sister yesterday that "those idiots sold the truck" again and now it is in the hands of someone I have no idea of, yet I hold liability.

I have no bill of sale and outside of pleading with the toll road that I have sold the truck and pleading with the DMV to do something and get it off my name (they just tell me to submit the title transfer again), I dont know what to do. I only have this guys name phone and address (but I think he is homeless), but I am ghosted when asking to come sign of a bill of sale, no contact...

I did call the police to report this but they said it was "forfeiture of vehicle" which I said I didn't care about the truck itself, I was paid. I care about the liabilities of a crash and all these tolls I did t do and accruing every day. But they said it's between me and the toll road, and the toll road says it's up to the DMV and they just make me submit more transfer notices that go nowhere.

I am a widow supporting a special needs child and my deadbeat sister and her deadbeat boyfriend that will not leave my house (one battle at a time), I can't afford to just hire a lawyer, I barely have enough money to stay afloat.