FMCSA’s carrier census counts 414 active motor carriers based in Daytona Beach. If yours is one of them, keep the USDOT number handy when you contact us, along with the title and current Florida registration, so the truck can be matched to its paperwork from the first call.
General freight is the cargo listed by 244 of those carriers in FMCSA’s carrier census, with motor vehicles named by 72. A dry van tractor or a car hauler rig from a Daytona Beach outfit is a truck we buy; send photos of the cab, the frame and the trailer deck if the trailer goes with it.
Another 56 local carriers in the same federal census list machinery and large objects, and 45 list logs, poles, beams and lumber. For a lowboy tractor or a log truck, tell us what trailer or body is mounted and whether it is sold with the tractor, so the pickup plan covers both pieces.
Intrastate routes, private fleets and new authorities
Of the Daytona Beach carriers in FMCSA’s census, 299 run intrastate and 113 run interstate, while 162 operate as private fleets hauling their own goods. A private-fleet truck may be titled to a business rather than a person; have whoever signs for the company ready with the title when you reach out.
Drivers working within 100 miles of their base number 9,325 in the carrier filings that FMCSA keeps, against 1,342 who go beyond that radius. For most sellers here, that puts the truck parked somewhere in Volusia County or close to it, and we collect it from that yard, driveway or lot.
New registrations rose from 29 carriers in 2024 to 52 in 2025, per FMCSA’s census. If you started a small operation in that window and are selling the tractor now, the title, the registration and any lease or lien release are the three papers to gather first.
Roadside inspection records from FMCSA cover 1,306 trucks tied to Daytona Beach carriers between August 2024 and August 2026, with a median model year of 2020. Give us the year, make, model and VIN up front; those four details are how we identify your truck.
Trucks ten or more model years old made up 15.4 percent of that inspected group, by FMCSA’s roadside count. Whatever the year of your truck, keep its service records and its latest inspection report together and include them with your photos.
Construction, manufacturing and warehouse jobs
The Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts put 52,331 jobs in Daytona Beach in 2023, of them 1,718 in construction and 1,824 in manufacturing. Dump trucks, flatbeds and straight trucks from those trades are trucks we purchase; tell us the body type and what equipment is mounted on it.
County Business Patterns from the Census Bureau lists 283 construction establishments here. If your truck belongs to a contractor and sits at a job site rather than a shop, give us the site address and a person who can let us in, and we will arrange collection there.
Transportation and warehousing account for 1,080 local jobs and wholesale trade for 1,177, according to the LEHD job counts for 2023. Box trucks and reefer units from distribution work are on our list as well; note the box length and whether a liftgate is fitted.
Nursery, cut greens and cattle loads
USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 1,374 farms in Volusia County, with cut flowers and cultivated greens, foliage plants and cattle as the leading products. Reefer straight trucks moving greens and foliage, and tractors that pull livestock trailers, both fit what we buy.
For a farm truck working Volusia County fields and nurseries, the title is what transfers ownership, so find it and the registration before we talk, and tell us if the truck is parked on the farm itself.
Bridges and the rail yard south-east of town
Of the 47 Daytona Beach bridges carried in the National Bridge Inventory, 3 are load-posted, and not one has clearance below 14 feet. Tell us if your truck sits behind a posted crossing, so the collection route and the vehicle sent for it are picked to suit.
The North American Rail Network, kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, places the New Smyrna Beach rail yard 16.2 miles south-east of the city. If your truck is parked out by that yard, send the address; you do not need to move it back into Daytona Beach.
The questions we get asked in Daytona Beach
- My company runs its own trucks as a private fleet. Who signs when we sell one?The titled owner signs. FMCSA’s carrier census lists 162 private fleets in Daytona Beach, and their trucks are often titled to the business, so have an authorised signer and the title ready.