St Catherine to Sumterville
Quarries and cement plants just north-east of Bushnell
The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists St Catherine Mine, a crushed-stone quarry, 1.6 miles north-east of Bushnell, with SUMTERVILLE QUARRY 5.3 miles out on the same bearing. A dump truck or tractor hauling aggregate from those two pits is likely parked on a gravel lot near town; give us that lot’s address and the name of whoever can let us through the gate.
Sumterville Cement Plant is 5.7 miles north-east of town and Brooksville South Cement Plant is 20.1 miles west, both on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s register. Bulk tankers and flatbeds that load at plants like these can be collected right where they sit; photograph the cab, the frame, the tires and the trailer coupling, and send the VIN with the pictures.
Sand plants and the Okahumpka mine to the east
East of Bushnell, the Okahumpka industrial-mineral mine sits 14.1 miles away and Astatula Sand Plant 23.1 miles away, according to Mine Safety and Health Administration listings. If your end dump or belly dump spends its week shuttling between those sites, tell us which one it returns to at night so pickup is planned for that yard.
Lisbon Sand, a sand and gravel operation the Mine Safety and Health Administration places 24.6 miles north-east, rounds out the pits within an hour’s reach. Keep the title, the current registration and any service log in the cab or in a folder you can photograph; those three documents are the first things we ask a Sumter County hauler for.
FMCSA’s carrier census counts 108 active carriers based in Bushnell; 52 of them list general freight, 29 haul logs, poles, beams or lumber, 22 move machinery and large objects, and 21 carry farm supplies. Whether yours is a log trailer rig, a lowboy setup or a box truck, tell us the cargo it was built around so we can ask the right questions about its body and trailer.
Of those Bushnell carriers, 88 operate intrastate and 19 cross state lines, and 50 are private fleets hauling their own goods, again per FMCSA’s carrier census. A private-fleet truck often carries a company’s name on the doors; leave the lettering as it is and tell us who holds the title, since the seller has to be the titled owner or someone authorised to sign for them.
Owner-operators and five-truck fleets
The biggest fleets registered in Bushnell are small: FMCSA’s carrier census shows one with 6 power units and 3 drivers, and two with 5 power units each. If you run a handful of trucks and want to sell one or several, send the VIN for each so we can look at them together rather than one call at a time.
Registrations keep arriving: 8 new carriers in 2025 and 5 in 2024 appear in the FMCSA carrier census for Bushnell. A newer operator selling a first truck needs the same short list as anyone else here, namely the signed title, the registration and clear photos of the truck from all four sides.
Short Sumter County runs and 2015-median rigs
Across 25 Bushnell carriers reporting mileage, the median truck covers 30,000 miles a year, and FMCSA’s carrier census puts 208 drivers within 100 miles of base against 94 who go further. Most local trucks therefore end the day near Sumter County, so we would expect to collect yours from a home driveway, a shop lot or a quarry yard close to town.
Roadside inspection records from FMCSA cover 41 trucks inspected from Bushnell carriers between 2024-10-30 and 2026-08-17; their median model year is 2015, and 53.7 percent were ten or more model years old. Note the model year and engine on your message, and add the odometer reading, which is what we check first against the VIN.
Cattle country work
Cattle, nurseries and Sumter County work
Sumter County holds 1,117 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, led by cattle, then potted flowering plants, then horses. Livestock haulers, nursery box trucks and horse-trailer tractors kept on a farm can be picked up there; give us directions to the barn or shed and say whether the lane takes a car carrier.
In 2023, the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts recorded 2,683 jobs in Bushnell, 259 of them in manufacturing, which is 9.7 percent. County Business Patterns from the Census Bureau adds 24 construction establishments, so contractor dump trucks and service bodies are part of the local mix; a builder retiring one should send photos of the bed or body along with the cab.
The questions we get asked in Bushnell
- My dump truck is parked on the Sumterville quarry lot; must it be brought to Bushnell?SUMTERVILLE QUARRY is 5.3 miles north-east of Bushnell on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list, and we collect from the quarry lot itself. Name the quarry’s site manager or gate contact when you write, and the Sumterville pickup gets set up through them.
- My tractor shuttles loads between Bushnell and the Wildwood yard; is pickup at Wildwood possible?The WILDWOOD rail yard sits 13.3 miles north-east of Bushnell, per the North American Rail Network kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. If your tractor is parked near it, send the address and a contact for the lot and we will plan the collection there.