Citrus County
Three signs, no ratings, and a county that posts one bridge
The Maylen Mine employs twelve people about two and a half miles from Black Diamond. Within ten miles of it the National Bridge Inventory records 20 structures, not one of them coded below legal loads — and three of them posted for load.
There is therefore no commercial weight floor to report here at all, and there are three signs. We give both counts rather than calling the network clear, because a driver meets a sign at a crossing this measurement holds no cap for.
Citrus County posts one of the 28 bridges it maintains. Four quarries sit in the county and that single crossing binds exactly one of them, over towards Crystal River — not this one.
So the useful thing to know is which of the two you are meeting
So the distinction between the two fields is not a technicality out here. It decides what a driver can plan.
A rating tells you a number: this crossing takes so many tonnes, and a loaded truck either fits under it or crosses part loaded. A posting tells you there is a restriction without the data recording what it is, so in Citrus County the number has to come from the sign itself.
Around the Maylen Mine every restriction is of the second kind. Nothing in the file caps a load, and three times over there is something at the roadside that might.
Which leaves the truck as the thing that is actually measurable
Which is why, on a page about Citrus County, the numbers worth printing are the ones on the vehicle rather than the ones on the map.
A single-unit dump truck working this pit is held to 70,000 lb gross where a combination gets 80,000 lb — ten thousand pounds of difference decided by how the truck is built, not by where it goes. That gap applies on every crossing, signed or not.
And it shows in the work. More trips for the same tonnage means hours rather than miles, which is the number we would rather hear about when you call.
Florida weight law
And the permit that will not help a straight truck
Those ten thousand pounds are not recoverable by permit either, which is the part people are most often surprised by.
Florida’s divisible-load permit adds ten per cent over legal gross and is void on the interstate system — and it explicitly does not reach a single-unit vehicle used as a dump truck, a concrete mixer, a waste collection vehicle or a fuel tanker. In Citrus County, where almost nothing is interstate mileage, that exclusion is the whole of the difference between the two configurations.
Fla. Stat. § 316.550(4), with § 316.535(6). Information, not legal advice.
Florida paperwork
We need a title — unless the truck never had one
Those rules stop mattering the day the truck changes hands, and the paperwork is what is left.
A lost title has a counter replacement. Where none exists there is a bonded route. Neither is unusual and neither stops a sale.
The plate is the Florida detail people miss: it stays in the owner’s name and comes off the truck, to be moved to another vehicle of the same class or surrendered to the county tax collector.
Fla. Stat. § 320.0609(1)(a). Information, not legal advice.
What we buy here
All of it is iron we buy. Dump trucks and aggregate haulers off the Maylen Mine, held to 70,000 lb where a combination gets 80,000 lb. Flatbeds and day cabs, box trucks and straight trucks, tankers, rollbacks, service bodies and the pickups that go with a crew anywhere in Citrus County.
Whatever you drive, the offer doesn’t change. We buy all of them.
We buy complete trucks. If the engine, transmission, doors, rear ends, drive shafts, wheels or anything under the hood have been removed, we can’t buy it. Small things — a missing bumper — are fine.
Straight answers
The questions we get asked in Black Diamond
- Does it have to run?No. It does have to be complete — if the engine, transmission, doors, rear ends, drive shafts, wheels or anything under the hood have been removed, we can’t buy it. Rust is not a disqualifier.
- The engine is out of it. Is that different?Yes, and that is the line. A tired engine is fine; an engine that has been pulled out and sold means we can’t buy the truck.
- It passes three posted signs a day. Is that a problem for a sale?No. Around the Maylen Mine that is the ordinary shape of a shift, and Citrus County posts one bridge in total, so the signs and the ratings are recording different things.
- What about the title?We need one unless the truck is old enough that it never had one. A lost title has a counter replacement; where none exists there’s a bonded route.
- How do you pay?Cash or electronic payment, whichever suits you.
Why people call
Beyond a truck that has simply done its turns, the reasons are personal ones. Retiring. A medical that went the wrong way. A pit contract that ended and left one dump truck standing in Citrus County with nothing booked for it, a couple of miles from the Maylen Mine gate.
Most of those aren’t happy reasons, and we don’t treat them like they are. Somebody wants a straight answer and the truck gone by the end of the week. That’s what we’re here for.