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Sell your semi truck for cash in Bay Pines the easy and convenient way

Bay Pines sits on the western edge of Pinellas County, with the St. Petersburg rail yard and the petroleum terminals around Tampa to its east, and the trucks that work this side of the bay run between them.

Selling a truck in Bay Pines? Tell us about it and we'll take it from there.

East toward the bay

Fuel terminals across the water from Bay Pines

Port Tampa Blending Terminal is listed by the Energy Information Administration as a petroleum product terminal 14.3 miles east of Bay Pines, with Tampa Terminal 15.1 miles out on the same heading. A tractor that has pulled fuel tankers between those two sites and the Pinellas side of the bay is one we buy. Tell us which terminal it loaded at and whether the tank trailer goes with it or stays behind.

Further east, CITGO Petroleum Corporation’s liquid bulk terminal appears in Bureau of Transportation Statistics listings 21.8 miles from Bay Pines. If your tractor is parked in a yard near that terminal rather than at your house, give us that address and a contact who can open the gate. Send photos of the cab, the fifth wheel and the VIN plate along with that address.

Tracks and kilns east

St. Petersburg’s rail yard and the Tampa cement plant

The ST PETERSBURG rail yard is 7.3 miles east of town on the North American Rail Network maintained by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Day cabs that shuttle loads off a yard like that tend to stay close to home, so the truck may well be sitting in Pinellas when you call. Have the registration and the odometer reading in hand before you send us its photos.

Across the bay, the Mine Safety and Health Administration lists the Tampa Cement Grinding Plant 22.1 miles east of Bay Pines. Bulk tankers and dump trucks that have hauled from a plant like that are on our list too. Keep any service records that came with the truck together with the title, and send the VIN first, since each question we ask after that follows from it.

South-east run

Port Manatee and the military bases near Bay Pines

Port Manatee shows up on the North American Rail Network as a rail yard 19.3 miles south-east of Bay Pines, reached across the mouth of the bay. A truck that worked the port side and was then left on a lot there does not have to come back to Pinellas for the sale; we collect from where it stands. Tell us whose lot it is on so pickup is set up with them.

Pinellas Park AFRC sits 6.8 miles east and MacDill Air Force Base 17 miles east, both counted as military installations by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. A truck parked on or beside a base needs someone with access to meet the driver, so name that person when you contact us, along with a phone number for the gate.

A Starkey Road counter for Bay Pines paperwork

Florida titles are issued by the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, which handles them through county tax collector service centers and license plate agents. The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles location list puts the closest one for Bay Pines at the Pinellas County motor vehicle service center - Largo, at 13025 Starkey Road, Largo, 33773, about 5 miles away.

If the title is missing or still shows a lender, the Largo service center on Starkey Road is where a replacement or a lien release gets sorted out. Carry the Florida registration and a photo ID to the Starkey Road counter. Let us know at the start if the paper title is not in your hands, so the pickup date can be set once the Largo office has issued it.

Wholesale on the Gulf side

Delivery routes and job sites around Bay Pines

Bay Pines held 4,658 jobs in 2023 according to the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts (LODES), and 135 of those, or 2.9 percent, were in wholesale trade. Box trucks and straight trucks that run wholesale deliveries around Pinellas are trucks we purchase; send the body length and liftgate details along with the photos.

Construction made up 58 jobs in town, a 1.2 percent share in the same LEHD figures. Dump trucks, flatbeds and service bodies from building work belong in the same conversation. If the truck carries a crane, a dump body or a toolbox setup, photograph it from both sides and tell us whether that equipment is staying on.

Nurseries and hives

Potted plants, honey and cattle in Pinellas

Bay Pines farm trucks come from a county where USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counted 115 farms across Pinellas, with potted flowering plants, honey and cattle at the top of the list. Nursery box trucks, refrigerated straight trucks and stock haulers that serve those growers fit what we buy.

A farm truck often sits in a barn or behind a greenhouse rather than on a street, so describe how a tow truck or a driver reaches it. If it carries a farm tag instead of a standard registration, say so, and keep the title with whatever paperwork the tag came with.

The questions we get asked in Bay Pines

  • The fuel tractor I ran from Port Tampa is parked over there now; will you collect it on the Tampa side?Port Tampa Blending Terminal is 14.3 miles east of Bay Pines on the Energy Information Administration’s terminal list, and we collect from wherever the tractor is parked, on either side of the bay. Pass along the Tampa yard address plus whoever holds the gate key.
  • The title for my Bay Pines truck has gone astray; is the Largo service center the place to get a new one?The Pinellas County motor vehicle service center - Largo, at 13025 Starkey Road, is about 5 miles from Bay Pines on the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles location list. It handles replacement titles and lien releases for the department.
  • My Pinellas nursery truck carries a farm tag; is that a problem for selling it?Pinellas growers counted in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture run potted flowering plants at the top of their list, and farm-tagged trucks from that work are ones we take. Send the title and the tag paperwork together, and we will tell you what else is needed.

Sell your truck in Bay Pines

Bay Pines looks east across the bay to the Tampa fuel terminals, south-east to Port Manatee, and up the road to the Largo title office on Starkey Road.