FMCSA’s carrier census lists 130 active motor carriers based in Chipley, and 78 of them are recorded by FMCSA as private fleets moving their own goods rather than freight for hire. If your truck is one of those company units, have the registration in the business name ready when you call, along with the name of the person who can sign for the business.
Intrastate work dominates the town’s registrations: 95 carriers are listed as operating only inside Florida and 34 as crossing state lines, according to FMCSA’s carrier census. For an intrastate truck, the Florida registration and the title are usually the only papers needed; an interstate unit may also carry an IFTA decal and apportioned plates, and it helps to tell us whether those are still active.
New registrations have continued at a steady pace, with 10 carriers added in 2024 and 5 more in 2025 on FMCSA’s carrier census. If yours is a young operation that bought its first tractor recently, keep the bill of sale and any lien release together with the title, since a lender’s name on the title has to be cleared before the sale closes.
Log trucks, lowboys and farm haulers
Among Chipley carriers, 47 list general freight, 32 list machinery and large objects, 29 list logs, poles, beams and lumber, and 18 list farm supplies, based on the cargo classes filed with FMCSA’s carrier census. That spread points to box trucks and dry vans alongside log trailers, lowboys and flatbeds. Tell us the trailer type when you contact us, and say whether the tractor and trailer are being sold together or apart.
If your log truck is parked at a woodyard or a landing outside Washington County’s towns, it can stay there. Send the GPS pin or the nearest road and a phone number for whoever controls the gate, and we plan the collection at that site.
For a lowboy or a machinery hauler, send photos of the deck, the ramps or the detachable neck and the tractor’s data plate along with the cab. Those pictures, plus the VIN, answer most of what we would otherwise ask over the phone.
The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists Panama City Quarry, a sand and gravel operation 11.3 miles south of Chipley, and Jones Pit, a crushed-stone quarry 13.3 miles to the north-east. Dump trucks and end dumps that haul from pits like these can be collected at the pit yard or at your shop, whichever is easier for you to arrange.
Further out, the Mine Safety and Health Administration places Imperial Rock Mine, a dimension-stone quarry, 15.1 miles north-east and USA Calcium, an industrial-mineral mine, 16.6 miles east. Sandhills Plant 2 appears in Mine Safety and Health Administration listings at 23.2 miles south-west with the Rocky Creek Mine and Mill at 23.4 miles east. If your dump truck is still parked on a mine property, check with the site office about access before pickup day and pass their contact to us.
Trucks that work quarry roads tend to keep service logs with the operator. If you have oil-change records, tire receipts or a recent DOT annual inspection sheet, photograph them alongside the truck itself; they travel with the sale and help us describe the unit correctly.
Cattle, cotton and honey on Washington County farms
USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 400 farms in Washington County, with cattle, cotton and honey as the leading products. Livestock haulers, cotton module trucks and farm flatbeds all fit what we buy. A farm truck titled in a family member’s name needs that person’s signature on the title, so sort out who signs before we schedule the pickup.
If your farm truck sits out on the property rather than by the house, tell us where it is and whether a trailer or equipment needs moving to reach it, so the driver arrives knowing the layout.
The tractors on Chipley’s roads
Across 115 trucks from Chipley carriers checked at the roadside between August 2024 and August 2026, the median model year was 2017 and 47 percent were ten or more model years old, per FMCSA roadside inspection records. Whatever the year of yours, start with the VIN and the odometer reading, then send photos of all four sides and the dash.
The three biggest local fleets on FMCSA’s carrier census run 60, 16 and 15 power units, and that census also shows a median of 23,500 miles a year per truck among the 34 carriers that reported mileage. If you are selling several units from one fleet, a simple list of VINs, model years and where each one is parked lets us handle them as one collection.
Driver records filed with FMCSA’s carrier census put 218 drivers on routes within 100 miles of base and 178 on longer runs. A regional truck that comes home most nights is easy to collect at your yard; a long-haul tractor out on the road can be picked up once it is back in Chipley or wherever it finishes its last load.
The Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts for 2023 show 3,246 jobs located in Chipley, including 242 in manufacturing, 102 in construction and 75 in transportation and warehousing. Box trucks and straight trucks used for local deliveries to plants and job sites are part of what we collect, not only tractors.
A contractor’s dump truck, flatbed or service body truck is often parked at the job site; let us know the address and the hours someone is there to meet the driver.
Before the sale, find the Florida title and check that the name on it matches yours or your company’s exactly. A title held by a lender comes with a lien release from that lender, and both go with the truck at collection.
If the title is lost, a duplicate comes from the state’s title agency, and it is best to request it before we set a collection date. Keep the current registration and your photo ID ready as well, since those are what the driver checks against the title on the day.