Pasco County
A hundred and one crossings, no cap, and exactly one sign
Central State Aggregates employs 18 people about nine miles from Crystal Springs. Within ten miles of it the National Bridge Inventory records 101 structures and not one of them is coded below legal loads — so there is no commercial weight floor here to report at all.
One of those 101 is posted for load. That single sign is the whole difference between this node and a genuinely clear one, and it is why we will not call the network clean.
Set it beside Krome Quarry down in Miami-Dade, where 202 structures produced neither a posting nor a restriction. Same result on the ratings, different result on the roadside, and a driver meets the roadside. Pasco County posts one of the 57 bridges it maintains.
So the honest form of this is two counts, not one adjective
So we publish both numbers rather than the word that would summarise them, because the word would be wrong in one direction or the other.
Say “nothing restricted” and it is true of the ratings and false at one crossing where there is a sign. Say “restricted” and it is false of all 101 structures. Florida is the state where those two fields disagree most — 819 posted against 579 coded below legal loads — so around Pasco County it is the norm rather than an oddity.
What it means for a truck working out of Central State Aggregates is simple enough: the data holds no cap for you, and there is one place where the sign has to be read instead.
Florida weight law
Which leaves a ceiling the road cannot lower or lift
Which puts the binding number back on the vehicle, where on most Pasco County work it belongs anyway.
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 including all enforcement tolerances. The divisible-load permit that adds ten per cent off the interstate system does not reach those vehicles, so the ten thousand pounds cannot be permitted back.
Fla. Stat. § 316.535(6), with § 316.550(4). Information, not legal advice.
Florida paperwork
We need a title — unless the truck never had one
Those numbers stop mattering the day the truck changes hands, and the paperwork is what is left.
A lost title has a counter replacement. Where none exists there is a bonded route. Neither is unusual and neither stops a sale.
The plate is the Florida detail people miss: it stays in the owner’s name and comes off the truck, to be moved to another vehicle of the same class or surrendered to the county tax collector.
Fla. Stat. § 320.0609(1)(a). Information, not legal advice.
What we buy here
All of it is iron we buy across Pasco County. Dump trucks and aggregate haulers off Central State Aggregates, 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 pit 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 Crystal Springs
- 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.
- Nothing round here is rated. Does that mean the roads are fine?For the ratings, yes — 101 structures around Central State Aggregates and no cap at all. There is still one posted sign, and Pasco County posts one bridge in total, so read the sign rather than the summary.
- 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 pit contract that ended and left one dump truck standing in Pasco County with nothing booked for it, a few miles from Central State Aggregates.
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.