Florida's trucks work two coasts and everything between them. In the census FMCSA published in October 2026, a little over 156,000 carriers give a Florida address. Nearly four in five of them are registered for in-state work only, and a little over one in four is a private fleet moving its own goods. More than twenty thousand of them tell FMCSA they carry motor vehicles, close to fourteen thousand carry logs, poles and lumber, twelve thousand carry fresh produce, and eleven thousand carry garbage. Read that as a list of trucks: the day cab pulling cars off the Blount Island berth, the log truck coming out of the pines around Perry and Branford, the sleeper-cab semi truck hauling produce north on I-75, the garbage truck on a county route, the mixer leaving the Pennsuco plant at Medley, and the dump truck loading at a quarry in Hialeah Gardens or Crystal River, or the box truck one of those private fleets bought to deliver its own goods. Any of them is a truck we'll make an offer on.
The freight says where the trucks are. Ships work the berths at Jacksonville, Tampa, Port Manatee, Miami, Port Everglades, Palm Beach, Canaveral and Panama City, and vehicles roll on and off at Talleyrand, Blount Island and Dames Point in Jacksonville, at Hooker's Point in Tampa, at Port Everglades' three terminals, at Miami, at Palm Beach and at Canaveral's South Cargo Pier. Containers go onto rail at the Talleyrand and Dames Point transfer facilities in Jacksonville, at Fort Lauderdale, Miami, Fort Pierce, Cocoa, Tampa and Fernandina, and inland at the Central Florida Intermodal Logistics Center at Winter Haven. Cement comes out of Medley, Sweetwater, Tampa, Coleman, Branford and Brooksville, rock out of the quarries at Hialeah Gardens, Medley, Newberry, Crystal River, Lecanto, Inglis and Perry, and there are mines around Bradley Junction, Homeland and Arcadia and up at White Springs. The racks at Taft outside Orlando, at Tampa, Port Everglades, Fisher Island, West Palm Beach, Jacksonville, Cape Canaveral, Panama City, Pensacola, Niceville, Freeport, Lake City and Port Manatee fill the tankers. Wherever yours is parked, at a berth, a ramp, a pit, a rack or a grove road, tell us the town and we'll settle between us whether we drive out to it, buy it from where you are, or you bring it to us.
Title, plate and the tax collector
The title settles most of it. In Florida a lost one is replaced through the county tax collector, which handles titles for the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles; take the request in or mail it. In Jacksonville that's the Duval County office at 231 East Forsyth Street; in Miami, 200 Northwest 2nd Avenue; in Tampa, the 14th floor of the County Center at 601 East Kennedy Boulevard; in Orlando, 6050 Wooden Pine Drive; in St. Petersburg, 2500 34th Street North; in Fort Lauderdale, 1113 North Federal Highway; in Tallahassee, 1276 Metropolitan Boulevard. A truck old enough never to have had a title has a bonded route to one. Start the replacement, then write to us; the two don't wait on each other.
If there's a lien, call the lender for the payoff before anything else, because that is what takes the time. A salvage or rebuilt brand on the title is something to mention, not something that stops the sale. One rule worth knowing before you need it is the storage clock: a towing and storage operator holding a vehicle must give notice by certified mail within five business days, and a vehicle more than three years old can go to public sale thirty-five days after it went into storage, under section 713.78, which draws no distinction by weight, so a dump truck runs on the same clock as a car. And keep your plate: in Florida the tag stays with you rather than the truck, to go onto a replacement of the same class or back to the tax collector, so take it off before the truck leaves.
The seventy-thousand-pound line
Florida allows 80,000 pounds gross, enforcement tolerances included, under section 316.535 of the Florida Statutes, and the same section caps a single-unit dump truck, concrete mixer, waste truck or fuel tanker at 70,000 pounds. Off the interstates a permit under section 316.550 lets a commercial vehicle run at the section's limits plus the ten percent scale tolerance of section 316.545, on a route the permit names. That is the arithmetic your truck worked to, and none of it changes the sale. A tri-axle dump truck that ran at the cap, a mixer that spent its life inside the Miami grid, a heavy-haul tractor that moved on permits, a pickup that never came near the line: the same offer for each, reached the same way.
Here's the first message in full: the year, make, model and VIN, photos all the way round, a picture of the title, and the town the truck is in. Sleeper, day cab, heavy-haul tractor, dump truck, roll-off, mixer, garbage truck, wrecker or rotator, log truck, tanker, boom or crane truck, box truck, straight truck, utility truck, pickup or dually: one message covers every one of them, and an offer follows it.