Construction work on Big Coppitt Key
Of the 340 jobs located on Big Coppitt Key in 2023, the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts (LODES) place 138 in construction. If your truck is a dump body, a flatbed or a box truck that has carried materials to job sites around the key, tell us the body type and the VIN when you first get in touch.
That construction figure works out to 40.6 percent of local jobs, according to the same LEHD count from the Census Bureau for 2023. A contractor with several trucks on the key can list them all in one message: make, model, model year and where each one is parked, and we will set up a single visit to the lower Keys for them.
Base road, mile markers
Between the naval air station and Saddlebunch
NAS Key West FL lies about 2.5 miles west of Big Coppitt Key, per the Bureau of Transportation Statistics’ list of military installations. If your truck sits in a yard or driveway on the key between those two points, give us the street address and a phone number for whoever holds the keys, and the collection is planned around that spot.
To the north-east, about 5.8 miles out, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics records the TR SI Saddlebunch Keys installation. A truck parked anywhere along that stretch of the Overseas Highway does not need to be driven toward Key West for us to see it; send a pin or a mile marker and photos of the cab, the frame and the tires.
Keys growers
Plant nurseries and stake beds in Monroe
Across Monroe County, a modest 39 farm operations appear in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, the island chain included. Growers with a straight truck or a refrigerated box they no longer use can send us the registration, the title and a few photos, and we handle the rest from there.
Aquatic plants, corn and potted flowering plants head the county’s farm list in that 2022 USDA census. Nursery and plant growers often run small box trucks and stake beds; if yours is one of them, note the body length and whether it has a liftgate so we know what we are collecting.
What to hand over on Big Coppitt
Have the Florida title in the seller’s name ready before collection, along with the current registration. If the title has gone missing, the state’s title agency issues a replacement, and it helps to start that request as soon as you decide to sell.
Service records, fuel logs or a list of parts fitted are useful but not required. Keep them in the cab or send scans with your photos, so what we see on Big Coppitt Key matches the history you describe.
Island collection
Collecting a truck on the lower Keys
Big Coppitt Key is an island community in Monroe County, so the truck stays where it is and we come to it. Tell us whether it is on a paved lot, a gravel yard or a residential street, and whether a tow vehicle can reach it from the Overseas Highway.
If you have moved off the key and left the truck behind, you can sell it from wherever you live now. Name someone local who can open the gate or hand over the keys, and sign the title as the seller shows on it.
The questions we get asked in Big Coppitt Key
- My dump truck hauled fill and block for builders on Big Coppitt Key, so is a construction tipper like that one you purchase?Construction accounted for 138 of the 340 jobs on Big Coppitt Key in 2023 on the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts, and dump trucks, flatbeds and box trucks from that work are what we purchase. A VIN, the body style and a handful of pictures from the key open the conversation.
- My rig sits on the key just east of the naval air station, so do you come out to that spot?The Bureau of Transportation Statistics places NAS Key West FL about 2.5 miles west of Big Coppitt Key, and a truck parked anywhere in that stretch is collected where it sits. Text us the yard address on the key plus the name of the neighbour or site manager holding its keys.
- Which office reissues a lost Florida truck title for someone living on Big Coppitt Key?Florida titles for Big Coppitt Key owners are replaced through the state’s title agency, and the replacement should be in hand, in the seller’s name, before the truck is collected.