Dunedin’s small, local carriers
FMCSA’s carrier census shows 48 active carriers based in Dunedin, and 37 of them are registered as intrastate operators against 11 that cross state lines. If your truck has stayed inside Florida, its registration and Florida title are usually the only papers we need to start, so have both where you can photograph them.
Private fleets account for 18 of those 48 carriers in the FMCSA census, meaning businesses that move their own goods rather than freight for hire. A contractor or supplier selling one unit from a private fleet should note which company name sits on the title, since that is the name that signs it over.
Fleet sizes stay modest: the three biggest Dunedin carriers on FMCSA’s roll run 12, 6 and 5 power units. Selling a single tractor or straight truck out of a yard that size is exactly the kind of sale we handle, one VIN at a time.
Lumber, machinery and household moves
General freight is the most common cargo listing among Dunedin carriers, with 20 of them on the FMCSA census, while 9 list machinery and large objects. If yours hauled equipment on a lowboy or flatbed, include the trailer in the photos if it is part of the sale, and tell us if it is not.
FMCSA’s registry shows 8 Dunedin carriers hauling timber products such as lumber and 6 moving household goods. Box trucks from moving work and flatbeds from lumber runs often sit at a home or a small shop lot here, so give us the street address and say whether the truck can be reached from the road.
Where Dunedin drivers spend the week
Drivers working for Dunedin carriers split 139 inside a 100-mile radius and 60 beyond it on FMCSA’s census. A truck that ran the short radius is likely parked close to home when we come for it, so tell us whether it is at a residence, a shop or a customer’s site.
Among the five carriers that reported mileage to FMCSA, the median was 9,665 miles per truck. Read the odometer and send that figure with the VIN; those two numbers let us start the paperwork before anyone visits.
Southeast of town
Terminals, rail and the bay side of Tampa
The Energy Information Administration lists the Port Tampa Blending Terminal 19.8 miles south-east of Dunedin and the Tampa Terminal at 20.4 miles. If your tanker or fuel truck is kept at one of those terminals, give us the gate contact and we will collect it from that lot.
Rail yards at St. Petersburg, 18.9 miles south-east, and Port Tampa, 23 miles east, appear in the North American Rail Network kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Day cabs that shuttled to those yards can be sold from wherever they now park; just send the location.
At 23.6 miles east, the Tampa Cement Grinding Plant is on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list, and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics places a CITGO liquid bulk terminal at 23.5 miles. Bulk and mixer trucks from that corridor should come with any service records you kept.
Builders, suppliers and delivery work
Construction holds 729 of the 12,784 jobs in Dunedin, a 5.7 percent share in the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts for 2023. Dump trucks and flatbeds from that trade can be sold straight off a job site; tell us the site and who controls access.
Firms that build are counted at 83 construction establishments in Dunedin by the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns. If your truck is titled to one of them, have the business’s registration and title ready, along with a name we can call to arrange the pickup.
Transportation and warehousing account for 292 local jobs on LEHD’s 2023 figures, with manufacturing at 363 and wholesale trade at 359. A box truck or straight truck that delivered for one of those employers is welcome; list what body it carries when you write to us.
Bridges and Pinellas farm work
Seventeen bridges in Dunedin appear in the Federal Highway Administration’s National Bridge Inventory, none of them load-posted and none under 14 feet. That leaves our carrier a clear road to pick up a tall box truck or a loaded flatbed anywhere in town.
Potted flowering plants lead Pinellas County’s farm output, ahead of honey and cattle, across the 115 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture. A nursery or livestock truck kept on a farm lot can be collected there; send photos and the farm’s address.
The questions we get asked in Dunedin
- My truck is kept near the Tampa terminals, not in Dunedin. Will you pick it up over there?Yes, at the terminal. The Energy Information Administration places the Tampa Terminal 20.4 miles south-east of Dunedin, and we come to the truck there. Give us the gate contact and the lot it sits on.
- Do I need interstate paperwork if my truck only worked inside Florida?Not for the sale itself. FMCSA’s census lists 37 of Dunedin’s 48 carriers as intrastate, and for a truck like that the Florida title and current registration are what we ask for first.
- Is there anything on the roads in town that would stop a tall truck being picked up?Nothing on the bridge list. The National Bridge Inventory lists 17 bridges in Dunedin with none load-posted and none under 14 feet, so a tall box or stacked flatbed can be reached at its address.