Sell your semi truck for cash in East Palatka the easy and convenient way

A tractor or flatbed that shuttles loads to that yard is often parked near it between runs, so give us the yard-side address if that is where yours sits and we will collect it there.

SRM Materials East Palatka, an industrial-mineral mine the Mine Safety and Health Administration lists 5 miles north-east of town, is the closest extraction site to the river crossing. If your dump truck or tractor works its pit roads, send a photo of the plate and the VIN on the door jamb, and tell us whether the gate needs a pass for us to reach the truck.

Heading west, the Mine Safety and Health Administration records the Keuka Sand Plant at 16.2 miles and the Grandin Sand Plant, a sand and gravel operation, at 20.1 miles from East Palatka. Trucks hauling sand off those two sites may spend the week out on the west side of the county rather than at home.

Tell us which plant your truck loads at and the address where it is kept. We come to the truck, so a rig sitting at Keuka or Grandin does not need to be driven back to East Palatka before we see it.

FMCSA’s carrier census counts 58 active carriers based in East Palatka; 29 list general freight, 17 list machinery and large objects, 16 list logs, poles, beams and lumber, and 11 list metal sheets, coils and rolls. A log trailer, a lowboy for equipment or a flatbed rigged for coil all fit what we buy, so say which cargo your truck was set up to carry.

Only 9 of those carriers run interstate and 49 stay intrastate, by the same FMCSA census, while 25 are private fleets hauling their own goods. If your truck carried your own company’s freight, bring the registration in the business name along with the title so the owner on paper matches the seller.

The biggest fleet registered in town fields 15 power units and 12 drivers, according to the federal carrier census, and the next two run 7 and 4. An owner selling one unit out of a small fleet like these can list each VIN separately, and we handle each truck as its own sale.

Whatever year yours is, the model year and engine make printed on the title and the door sticker are the first two things we ask for.

Five local carriers reported mileage to FMCSA’s census, and their median sits at 13,500 miles per truck a year. Read the odometer before you call and keep any service records in the cab, since they answer most of our questions at the first look.

Around East Palatka, Putnam County holds 539 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, and cut flowers and cultivated greens lead the list ahead of cattle and horses. A box truck that runs greens to market, a cattle hauler or a horse-trailer tractor parked on a farm lane is one we can reach where it stands.

Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting account for 99 of the 748 jobs counted in East Palatka for 2023, a 13.2 percent share in the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts. For a farm or timber truck, have the title, the current registration and a few clear photos of the cab, frame and tires ready before you reach out.

A contractor’s dump truck or flatbed belongs on the same list, and the registration name should match whoever signs the title.

The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles lists the Putnam County motor vehicle service center - Palatka, a tax collector service center at 312 Oak St., Palatka, 32177, 2 miles from East Palatka, as the office where a missing title can be replaced.

Bring photo ID and the VIN to that Oak Street office, and if a lender’s lien is still on record, ask for the lien release from the lender before you go. Once the replacement title is in hand, tell us and we will set the collection at the truck’s address.

• Will you collect a truck parked near the PECAN rail yard or the SRM mine?The PECAN yard lies 4.2 miles north-west of town on the North American Rail Network, and the Mine Safety and Health Administration places SRM Materials East Palatka 5 miles north-east; we collect at either one if you give us the address and any gate details.