The row here has the town’s name spelled wrong
The single rail row filed under Bradenton carries a misspelling of the town’s name, and there is no second row to pair it with. That is a different defect from a duplicate and it is worth separating the two.
With a duplicate you have two rows, and comparing them tells you something: the pair at Fort Pierce sits 0.29 miles apart under one carrier, so the abbreviation and the full name are plainly one yard. Here there is one row and nothing to check it against. A wrong name on its own is just a wrong name.
The coordinate also falls inside Samoset rather than Bradenton, and Samoset has a page of its own. So two fields on a single row are off in two different ways, and we report both rather than pick one.
A gap, named
So the second honest disclosure is about the law, not the file
So here is the other thing we looked for and did not settle, because on the Gulf coast farm belt it is the question most likely to come up.
Florida’s agricultural and harvest weight provisions were not determined. Several states grant a seasonal or commodity allowance to farm haulage — Georgia gives forest and agricultural loads a 10 percent variance up to 88,000 lb off the interstate, for instance — and whether Florida has anything comparable was not established either way. Nothing in the row filed at Samoset settles it, and nothing in the pair of rows at Fort Pierce did either.
“Not determined” is not “does not exist”. Only the first of those is ours to say, and if your haul is agricultural it is a question for the state rather than for this page.
Which leaves what we can state, and it is most of what matters
Which is the general schedule, and it decides far more sales than any seasonal provision would.
Florida allows 80,000 lb gross including all enforcement tolerances and 20,000 lb on a single axle, and holds a single-unit dump truck, mixer, waste vehicle or fuel tanker to 70,000 lb. A divisible-load permit adds ten per cent off the interstate system only and does not reach those single-unit vehicles at all.
No facility-level source was found for the yard either, so this page describes rules and a filing error rather than traffic it cannot see.
Fla. Stat. § 316.535 and § 316.550(4); agricultural and harvest provisions not determined. Information, not legal advice.
And the coast, which works from underneath
Beyond the paperwork there is the air, and on this coast it decides where an inspection starts.
Salt and humidity put the underside first: frame rails and crossmembers, brake and air lines, electrical grounds, body mounts. Florida salts no roads, so none of it is road-salt damage — which means a buyer from a salt state tends to look in the wrong half of the chassis. It is the same air the whole way round the coast, from Key West up to Escambia County.
None of that stops us buying. A wash history is worth telling us about, and on a truck out of Samoset or Bradenton the photographs of the underside tell us more than photographs of the front do.
Florida paperwork
The title question, in one sentence and its fixes
Those rules stop mattering the day the truck changes hands. We need a title unless the truck is old enough that it never had one.
Everything past that is a fix rather than a category. A lost title has a counter replacement; where none exists there is a bonded route. The plate stays in your name and comes off the truck.
Where an insurer has paid a total loss, an electronic lien recorded on the title is the thing that actually holds it up.
Fla. Stat. § 320.0609(1)(a) and § 319.30. Information, not legal advice.
What we buy here
All of it is iron we buy, in Bradenton or over the line in Samoset. Box trucks and straight trucks off route work. Day cabs and road tractors. Dump trucks and aggregate haulers held to 70,000 lb where a combination gets 80,000 lb, flatbeds, tankers, rollbacks, service bodies and the pickups that go with a crew.
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 Bradenton
- 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.
- My paperwork and your records spell things differently. Does that matter?No. Our own row for this town is spelled wrong and its coordinate is in Samoset — and unlike the pair at Fort Pierce, 0.29 miles apart, there is no second row to check it against. Neither has ever affected a sale. We work from where the truck actually is.
- 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 contract that ended and left one truck more than the work needs, standing between Bradenton and Samoset with nothing booked for it — held to 70,000 lb where a combination gets 80,000 lb, and no seasonal provision we could find to lift it.
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.