Bayside freight
The Tampa Port Authority and Hooker’s Point, just west of town
The Bureau of Transportation Statistics places the Tampa Port Authority 5.6 miles west of Bloomingdale, a shorter run than most commutes out of the subdivisions here. A tractor that pulls chassis or flatbeds off the docks often goes home at night to a Bloomingdale lot, and that home lot is where we would come and load it.
Hooker’s Point Container Terminal, listed as a rail intermodal ramp 10.7 miles west in Bureau of Transportation Statistics records, is the other end of many of those dock moves. If your day cab shuttled boxes between the terminal and nearby warehouses, send a photo of the door sticker with the VIN and a shot of the odometer, plus the title in your name, and we can start from there.
Tank trucks that load at the Tampa terminals
Two petroleum product terminals, both named Tampa, sit 8.8 and 9.6 miles west of Bloomingdale according to the Energy Information Administration. Fuel haulers who load there and deliver to stations across the county frequently keep their tractor near home, so tell us whether yours is parked at your house, a yard, or the terminal gate.
Kinder Morgan’s liquid bulk terminal, 9.4 miles to the west in Bureau of Transportation Statistics listings, adds another loading rack along the same stretch of waterfront. For a tanker or the tractor that pulls one, keep the registration and any hazmat inspection paperwork together with the title; those are the papers we ask to see first.
Rail connections
East Tampa, Yeoman and the Tampa intermodal ramp
Closest of the rail sites, the East Tampa yard lies 7.8 miles west in the North American Rail Network kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, with the Yeoman yard 9.2 miles to the north-west on that same federal map. Whether your drayage tractor is parked in Bloomingdale or right beside either yard, we can collect it there.
Per the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, the Tampa, FL rail intermodal ramp is 9.5 miles north-west of town. If a container chassis or a yard tractor from that ramp is what you want to sell, give us the address where it sits and the name of whoever can unlock the gate on the day we arrive.
Builders, distributors and haulers who live here
Of the 3,928 jobs the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts recorded in Bloomingdale for 2023, construction accounted for 169, or 4.3 percent. Dump trucks, flatbeds and mixer chassis that serve those crews are trucks we purchase; photos of all four sides and the cab interior let us see what you are describing.
Wholesale trade held 164 of those positions, a 4.2 percent share, and transportation and warehousing held 102, or 2.6 percent, according to the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts for 2023. Box trucks and straight trucks from distribution work usually carry a commercial registration, so have the current registration card handy along with any service records the shop kept.
Cattle, nurseries and aquatic plants in Hillsborough County
USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counted 1,992 farms across Hillsborough County, with aquatic plants, cattle and transplants topping its list. Livestock haulers, stake bodies and nursery delivery trucks from that work are welcome, and they can stay on the farm or the nursery lot until we collect them.
Farm trucks are sometimes titled to a family member or to the farm itself rather than the person driving them. Before you contact us, check whose name is on the Florida title, and if it belongs to a business, have someone who can sign for that business ready to sign.
The questions we get asked in Bloomingdale
- My tractor is parked near the Tampa Port Authority docks, not at my house in Bloomingdale. Does it have to come back to Bloomingdale before you collect it?The Tampa Port Authority sits 5.6 miles west of Bloomingdale on Bureau of Transportation Statistics figures, and we collect from a lot near the docks just as readily as from your driveway. Give us the lot address near the docks and whoever holds the gate key there.
- I pulled fuel out of the Tampa terminals. Will you take the tanker that hauled it to Hillsborough County stations?The Energy Information Administration lists two Tampa petroleum product terminals, 8.8 and 9.6 miles west of town, and tankers loading there are among the trucks we purchase. Have the title, registration and tank inspection papers together when you get in touch.
- Can I sell a cattle trailer truck from a Hillsborough County ranch?Cattle ranks among the top farm products in Hillsborough County in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, and livestock trucks from those ranches are trucks we buy. Make sure the title name matches the person or farm that will sign.