Stone, sand and the roads north of Ave Maria
The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists Sunniland Mine, a crushed-stone quarry, 7.3 miles north of Ave Maria, and the Immokalee Division sand and gravel operation 10.6 miles north. A dump truck or tractor that hauls out of those two sites may well be parked near a pit gate rather than in town, and that is fine: give us the site name and who holds the gate key, and we arrange collection there.
West and south-west of town, 846 Mine LLC, a sand and gravel operation, is 10 miles out and Golden Gate Quarry, a crushed-stone quarry, is 13.3 miles away, according to Mine Safety and Health Administration records. If your truck splits its weeks between those two sites, tell us where it sleeps on a Friday night, since that is the address we plan around.
Bell Mine, an industrial-mineral mine 17.7 miles north-west, rounds out the Mine Safety and Health Administration list near Ave Maria. If your truck has worked any of these pits, send photos of the bed or trailer, the cab, the tires and the VIN plate along with the site name.
Box trucks, car haulers and bulk rigs registered in town
General freight shows up on the cargo list of 22 Ave Maria outfits, out of the 33 active ones that FMCSA’s carrier census places in this Collier County town. If yours is a box truck or tractor from one of those general freight outfits, have the title and the current registration in the same envelope before you call us.
Five Ave Maria carriers list dry bulk commodities in FMCSA’s carrier census, while four list driveaway or towaway work and four list motor vehicles. A car hauler, a tow rig or a bulk trailer combination counts as one sale with us; list each piece and its VIN so the paperwork for every unit is ready on pickup day.
By operation type, the same federal carrier census shows 14 Ave Maria carriers running interstate, 19 staying intrastate and 4 operating as private fleets. A private fleet truck that hauls a company’s own goods is something we purchase too, and the title holder named on the certificate is the person who signs.
Small fleets and how far their drivers go
Per FMCSA’s carrier census, the three largest fleets in Ave Maria run 6, 4 and 4 power units, with 8, 4 and 2 drivers. Owners of fleets that size often sell one truck at a time; tell us which unit you are letting go and whether its trailer stays behind or goes with it.
Forty drivers tied to Ave Maria outfits head past the 100-mile mark and 16 keep inside it, going by what those outfits filed in the federal carrier census. A truck that runs long routes may be out of town when you decide to sell, so give us the place it will be parked between trips and a date it is due back.
Eight local outfits gave FMCSA their yearly mileage, and the middle truck among them logs 35,625 miles between Ave Maria and wherever its loads go. Have the current odometer reading and any service records to hand when you get in touch with us.
Outfits that opened in 2024 and 2025
Ave Maria picked up three fresh motor carrier registrations in 2024 and four more in 2025, the FMCSA carrier census shows. If you bought a truck to start one of those operations and are now stepping back, the sale works the same way: title, registration and photos.
A recently started outfit may still owe on its truck. In that case bring the lender’s name and the account details along with the title paperwork, so the lien can be dealt with as part of the sale rather than after it.
Plant floors in town, cattle and hives in the county
Of the 3,113 jobs located in Ave Maria during 2023, manufacturing held 1,849, a 59.4 percent slice, on the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts. A straight truck or tractor that has run between plant docks in town can be collected from a loading yard; tell us whose lot it sits on and the hours someone can let us in.
Cattle lead the Collier County farm list, followed by horses and honey, across the 330 farms tallied in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture. A livestock hauler, a horse trailer rig or a flatbed that has carried hives out of a county farm is a truck we purchase, and it can stay on the farm until collection; just send a gate location and a phone number for whoever will be there.
The questions we get asked in Ave Maria
- My dump truck stays at Sunniland Mine between loads. Can the collection happen at the Sunniland gate north of town?Sunniland Mine sits 7.3 miles north and Golden Gate Quarry 13.3 miles south-west, per the Mine Safety and Health Administration, and we collect from sites like those. Send the site name and the contact who can open the gate.
- I run four power units out of Ave Maria and want to let one go. Is a single-unit sale possible?The largest Ave Maria fleets in FMCSA’s carrier census run between 4 and 6 power units, and selling a single unit from a fleet that size is routine for us. Name the truck, send its VIN and title details, and keep the rest of the fleet working.
- Which papers should an Ave Maria general freight hauler gather first?With most of the 33 Ave Maria carriers in FMCSA’s carrier census hauling general freight, the usual set is the title, current registration, the odometer reading, any service records and clear photos of the cab, frame and tires.