Fifty carriers on file in a small Florida town
Of those, the same census shows 28 reporting general freight, 13 farm supplies, 13 machinery and large objects, and 12 logs, poles, beams and lumber, so a seller here might be parting with anything from a box truck to a log tractor with its trailer. Tell us which of those loads your truck carried and we know which questions to ask first.
Crescent City trucking runs at a family scale. The three biggest fleets on the federal register run five, four and four power units, with seven, six and three drivers between them, according to FMCSA. If you are an owner-operator or a two-truck business, that is the normal shape of trucking here, and we deal with you directly.
New registrations stay steady: FMCSA’s carrier census shows three new carriers in Crescent City in 2024 and three more in 2025. Someone who started up recently and is now changing direction can sell the truck the same way as someone who has run it for years; have the registration and the title in your name ready.
Intrastate routes and short hauls out of town
Crescent City carriers report 38 intrastate operations against 12 interstate ones in FMCSA’s census, and 22 of the 50 run private fleets that haul their own goods. That means your truck is likely parked at a farm, a yard or a home in the area rather than out of state, which is where we would plan to collect it.
Of the drivers tied to Crescent City carriers, FMCSA shows 66 on runs inside a 100-mile radius while 31 go farther afield. For the seven local carriers that report annual mileage, the median is 10,000 miles a truck, again per FMCSA. Give us the odometer reading with your photos so the listing we build matches the truck in your yard.
Around town, 673 jobs were counted in 2023 by the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts. A Crescent City shop or farm retiring its delivery van or work pickup should send the VIN, shots of each side and the street where it sits.
Greens growers, cattle and horse farms south of Palatka
Cut flowers and cut cultivated greens lead the farm list for Putnam County in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, ahead of cattle and equine, across 539 farms. Refrigerated straight trucks and stake beds that move greens to packers, and stock trailers pulled behind cattle or horse operations, fit right in with what Crescent City owners call us about.
If your truck has spent its life on a farm lane, send photos of where it is parked and tell us whether a tow truck can reach it in wet weather. With 13 Crescent City carriers listing farm supplies on FMCSA’s census, plenty of these trucks sit off paved roads, and knowing the access ahead of time lets us bring the right equipment.
Mines and a rail yard up the road toward East Palatka
The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists SRM Materials East Palatka, an industrial-mineral mine, 17.3 miles north of Crescent City, and the Keuka Sand Plant 23.7 miles to the north-west. Dump trucks and end-dumps that haul from pits like these are trucks we purchase; tell us the body type and bed length when you write.
Some 19.2 miles north-west, the PECAN rail yard appears in the North American Rail Network maintained by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. If your tractor shuttled loads to a rail siding, the cab, axle configuration and fifth-wheel details are what we need to hear about.
Builders are part of the mix as well: the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns tally 30 construction establishments around Crescent City. A contractor here with a dump truck, a flatbed hauling equipment or a mixer can list it with us from the job site; we collect it wherever it is parked.
A lost title fixed a few blocks from downtown
The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles issues titles here through county tax collector service centers and license plate agents. The nearest is the Putnam County motor vehicle service center - Crescent City, at 115 North Summit Street, Crescent City 32112, about 0.3 miles from town according to the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles.
If the title has gone missing, a duplicate can be requested at that Summit Street office before the sale. Bring your ID and the VIN, and if a lender once held a lien, bring the lien release too. Once the duplicate is in hand, send us a photo of it alongside photos of the truck.
The questions we get asked in Crescent City
- Will you come to a farm outside Crescent City to pick up my truck?With 539 farms recorded in Putnam County by USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, many trucks here live on private land, and that is where we collect them. Send the address and a note on how the gate and lane are laid out.
- Is a Crescent City log tractor with its pole trailer something you take?Twelve Crescent City carriers list logs, poles, beams and lumber on FMCSA’s carrier census, and those tractors and trailers are on our list. Tell us the trailer type and send photos of the tractor and trailer together.
- My one dump truck hauls from the Keuka Sand Plant; is a single-truck owner too small for you?The largest fleets based in Crescent City on FMCSA’s register run five power units or fewer, so a one-truck owner is typical here. Send the VIN, photos and where the truck is parked, and we handle the pickup.