We buy trucks in Crystal River

Citrus County posts one of the 28 bridges it maintains. One. Four quarry registrations sit inside the county, and that single crossing decides the load at exactly one of them.

Three see nothing rated at all. The Amrize Crystal River Quarry meets 23 structures within ten miles with none coded below legal loads; Lecanto Mine 24 with none; Maylen Mine 20 with none. Each of the three does, however, have three structures posted for load — signs at crossings the rating data holds no cap for.

The Red Level Mine is the exception. Two of the 18 structures near it are coded below legal loads, both county-maintained, and the binding one is record 340012 carrying CR 40. That crossing is the single bridge Citrus County posts.

So the percentage that falls out of that needs its denominator attached to it, because on its own it flatters and misleads in turn.

Two restrictions among eighteen structures is eleven per cent, and the same two restrictions among a hundred would be two per cent. Nothing about the road changed; the circle did. A rate computed over eighteen structures is a rate for those eighteen and nothing more.

The useful numbers are the concrete ones. The nearest restriction to the Red Level Mine is 7.77 miles out, its commercial floor is 17.5 metric tonnes, and that admits about 6.5 tonnes of stone over the tare of an empty tandem dump. A truck crosses it part loaded or goes round.

Which is still not the number that binds hardest, because Florida caps the vehicle as well as the crossing.

A single-unit vehicle used as a dump truck, a concrete mixer, a waste collection vehicle or a fuel tanker may not exceed 70,000 lb gross, against 80,000 lb for a combination. The divisible-load permit that adds ten per cent off the interstate system does not reach those vehicles at all — and in Citrus County almost nothing is interstate mileage, so the exclusion is the whole of the difference.

Fla. Stat. § 316.535(6), with § 316.550(4). Information, not legal advice.

Both of those 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.

All of it is iron we buy. Dump trucks and aggregate haulers off the Amrize Crystal River Quarry and the Red Level Mine, held to 70,000 lb where a combination gets 80,000 lb. Day cabs and road tractors, flatbeds, box trucks, tankers, rollbacks, service bodies and the pickups that go with a crew anywhere in Citrus County.

Whatever you drive, the offer doesn’t change. We buy all of them.

• 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.
• It has run past three posted signs a day for years. Is that a problem?No. That is the normal shape of the work here, and Citrus County posts one bridge in total — the crossing 7.77 miles from the Red Level Mine — so the signs and the ratings are telling you two different things.
• 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.

Beyond a truck that has simply done its turns, the reasons are personal ones. Retiring. A medical that went the wrong way. A pit job that finished and left one truck standing in Citrus County with nothing booked for it, 7.77 miles from the one crossing that ever really constrained 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.