Freight, furniture moves and vehicle hauling in Deerfield Beach
General freight is the cargo checked by 243 of the 439 active Deerfield Beach carriers on file in FMCSA’s carrier census. If your box truck or tractor has spent its working life on general freight runs around Broward, have the title and current registration in hand before you contact us; those two documents answer most of what we ask first.
Household goods come next with 56 carriers, then machinery and large objects with 50 and motor vehicles with 44, according to the same FMCSA census. A moving van, a lowboy tractor or a car hauler from one of those outfits is a truck we buy; send photos of the body or deck as well as the cab so we see the whole unit.
New registrations keep arriving here: FMCSA records 44 new carriers in Deerfield Beach in 2024 and 41 more in 2025. If you started an operation in one of those years and are now selling the truck, the purchase paperwork from when you bought it is useful to send along with the title.
Mostly in-state, mostly short routes
Of the carriers in Deerfield Beach, 318 operate intrastate and 120 run interstate, by the count in FMCSA’s census, and 161 are private fleets moving their own goods. For a truck that has stayed inside Florida, the Florida registration and title are the documents to gather; if a title has gone missing, the state’s title agency handles a replacement before the sale.
Drivers here split 798 working within 100 miles against 496 going farther, a figure taken from FMCSA’s carrier census. A truck on short routes is usually parked back at a yard or home in the area each night, so give us that address and we collect it there.
Across 64 carriers that report mileage, the median sits at 25,000 miles per truck a year in FMCSA’s records. Note your odometer reading when you send the VIN; with those two numbers we can ask the right follow-up questions.
How old the local trucks run
Roadside checks of 191 Deerfield Beach-based trucks between September 2024 and August 2026 put the median build at model year 2019, per FMCSA roadside inspection records. Whatever year your truck is, list the year, make and model when you write, and attach service records if you kept them.
In that same inspection sample, 31 percent of trucks were ten or more model years old, per FMCSA roadside inspection records. Older and newer units both fit what we buy; the VIN tells us the exact build, so lead with it.
The three biggest local fleets in FMCSA’s census run 43, 42 and 39 power units. If you are selling several trucks from a fleet of that size at once, send a list of VINs together and tell us where each truck is parked.
Terminals and rail south toward the port
The Energy Information Administration lists two petroleum product terminals, Fort Lauderdale-Eisenhower and Port Everglades South Terminal, both 14.9 miles south of Deerfield Beach. Tank tractors that load there belong on our list; tell us which terminal the truck served and whether it is parked at a yard or a gate where someone has to let us in.
Transflo CSXT, a liquid bulk terminal 14.1 miles south, appears in Bureau of Transportation Statistics listings, as does the Port Everglades Northport roll-on/roll-off terminal at 15 miles. If your truck sits near the port rather than in Deerfield Beach, it can stay there; give us the location and a contact on site.
Rail sits just beyond the port: the North American Rail Network shows a Fort Lauderdale rail yard 15.5 miles south, and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics places the Fort Lauderdale intermodal ramp at 15.6 miles. A day cab that has pulled containers from that ramp is one we collect, so photograph the fifth wheel and frame along with the cab.
Construction, warehousing and nursery hauling
Construction accounts for 4,644 jobs in Deerfield Beach in 2023 under the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts, with transportation and warehousing at 4,082 and wholesale trade at 3,380. Dump trucks, flatbeds and delivery straight trucks from that work are all trucks we take; send a photo of the body and note what equipment is fitted to it.
Builders and trade contractors make up 315 local establishments in the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns, beside just 3 warehousing sites. A contractor selling a single truck should have the title in the business name ready, along with a contact who can sign for the company.
Broward County holds 658 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, led by potted flowering plants, foliage plants and equine operations. Nursery box trucks and horse-trailer tractors from those farms qualify too; tell us the farm address so we can plan the pickup there.
The questions we get asked in Deerfield Beach
- Are there weight-posted bridges near Deerfield Beach I should tell you about?The National Bridge Inventory counts 24 bridges in the area, 3 of them load posted and none under 14 feet of clearance. Mention if the truck is parked on a road reached only over one of the posted bridges so we route the collection around it.
- My tank tractor is parked near Port Everglades, not in Deerfield Beach. Does it have to come north first?Leave the tractor by the port terminals. The Energy Information Administration places the Port Everglades South Terminal 14.9 miles south of the city, and we come to the truck where it is. Give us the address and the name of whoever controls access to the lot.