Pits a few miles out of town
The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists MVM Landfill, LLC as a sand and gravel operation 3.2 miles south-west of DeFuniak Springs. A dump truck or tractor that runs loads out of that pit is often parked right at the site between jobs, so give us the pit address and the name of whoever can let us through the gate.
MOSSEYHEAD MINES sits 11.5 miles west in the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s records, and G2C Sand Mine, an industrial-mineral mine, is 23.5 miles west on that MSHA list. If your truck hauls between those sites, tell us which yard it sleeps in and send a clear photo of the VIN plate and the title together.
Tankers south toward Freeport
South of town by 15.2 miles, the Energy Information Administration places the FREEPORT petroleum product terminal, and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics records the Murphy Oil liquid bulk terminal at 15.3 miles in the same direction. A tractor that pulls fuel between those terminals and Walton County stations can stay where it is parked; send the location and we arrange collection around the terminal’s hours.
For a tank truck, have the registration, the title and any hazmat or tank test paperwork in one folder before you call. If the tanker trailer goes with the tractor, say so up front so both units go on the same bill of sale.
Seventy freight carriers, thirty-nine log haulers
FMCSA’s carrier census shows 152 active carriers based here, 106 of them intrastate, 46 interstate and 85 running private fleets. For an intrastate operator, have the Florida title and current registration ready, and tell us where in Walton County the truck is parked.
Of those carriers, 70 haul general freight, 50 move machinery and large objects, 39 carry logs, poles, beams and lumber, and 27 move farm supplies, according to FMCSA’s carrier census. Lowboys, log trailers, flatbeds and box trucks all fit; tell us the body type and trailer when you first get in touch.
New registrations continue: the same FMCSA census logs 9 new carriers in 2025 and 8 in 2024. On FMCSA’s carrier census the three biggest local fleets run 56, 49 and 27 power units, and a fleet selling several units at once can send one list of VINs rather than one call per truck.
Inspection years and yearly mileage, Walton County
Roadside inspection records kept by FMCSA cover 156 trucks from local carriers inspected between September 2024 and August 2026, with a median model year of 2020 and 30.1% at ten or more years old. Whatever the year of your truck, the VIN tells us the build, so put it at the top of your message.
Fifty local carriers file mileage with FMCSA’s carrier census, and their median truck covers 18,466 miles a year; quote yours from the odometer when you write. Drivers split between 330 working within 100 miles and 169 going further, by FMCSA’s carrier census, so a truck may be parked in DeFuniak Springs or on a job elsewhere in Florida; tell us which.
Posted spans on the back roads
Of the 28 bridges around DeFuniak Springs in the National Bridge Inventory, 5 are load-posted and not one is lower than 14 feet. If the truck sits down a county road past one of those posted bridges, mention it so we send the right equipment.
A loaded lowboy or heavy dump body matters on those posted spans, so tell us whether the truck will be empty or still carrying its trailer on collection day. A gate code, a phone number on site and a photo of the access road all help.
Construction, farms and timber
Construction accounts for 325 of the 5,844 jobs located here in 2023, a 5.6% share in the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts, with manufacturing at 103 and wholesale trade at 53. County Business Patterns from the Census Bureau lists 91 construction establishments, and their dump trucks, flatbeds and service bodies are trucks we buy.
Walton County holds 695 farms, with cattle, cotton and soybeans at the top, according to USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture. A grain truck, livestock hauler or farm flatbed parked on a field or in a barn can be collected there; have the title in the name of whoever is selling it.
The questions we get asked in DeFuniak Springs
- Can a dump truck stay at the MVM pit south-west of town until pickup?MVM Landfill, LLC sits 3.2 miles south-west of town on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list, and a truck parked at a pit like that can be collected where it stands. Share the pit’s address and a phone number for whoever holds the gate key there.
- My Walton County title has gone missing; which office reissues it?Florida’s title agency issues the duplicate for a Walton County truck, and the request goes in before collection. Start that request, then send us the VIN and registration so the rest can move alongside it.
- Do you buy log trucks and lumber haulers here?Thirty-nine local carriers on FMCSA’s census haul logs, poles, beams and lumber, and their tractors and log trailers are trucks we purchase. Photograph the log bunks, the tractor cab and the VIN plate, then send all three.
- Is a tanker hauling from the FREEPORT and Murphy Oil terminals something you buy?The FREEPORT terminal sits 15.2 miles south on the Energy Information Administration’s list, and a tanker based near it can be picked up there. Have the title, registration and any tank test records ready.