Intrastate tractors and private fleets near Feather Sound
Of the 148 active carriers in FMCSA’s carrier census for Feather Sound, 121 are registered for intrastate work, 27 for interstate hauling, and 91 operate as private fleets carrying their own goods. If your truck worked inside Florida only, its registration and title are the two papers to find first; an interstate tractor should also have its cab card handy.
General freight is listed by 63 of those carriers in the FMCSA census, with machinery and large objects at 22, motor vehicles at 19 and metal sheets, coils and rolls at 15. A car hauler, a flatbed tractor that moved coil or a lowboy rig for heavy equipment all fit here; tell us the body or trailer setup when you write, along with the VIN.
New registrations stay small: FMCSA lists 3 carriers that began in 2025 and 2 in 2024. If you are an owner-operator who started recently and is now stepping away, your authority paperwork and the truck’s title travel together, so gather both before we talk.
Roadside inspection records kept by FMCSA cover 666 trucks checked between August 2024 and August 2026 from carriers here, with a median model year of 2020 and 12.2 percent ten or more years old. Whatever the year of yours, a clear photo of the data plate and the odometer answers most of our first questions.
Census figures from the same agency put 1,813 drivers within 100 miles of base and 607 beyond it, so a Feather Sound truck is often parked close to home at the end of a shift; give us that yard’s address.
The three largest fleet registrations in the FMCSA census run 1,324, 98 and 62 power units. If you manage a group of units rather than a single tractor, send a list with each VIN and where each one sits, and we can plan collections unit by unit.
St. Petersburg rail, Port Tampa fuel and two bases
The North American Rail Network, maintained by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, places the St. Petersburg rail yard 8.6 miles south of Feather Sound and the Port Tampa yard 14.9 miles east. A tractor that shuttles loads between those yards can be collected where it stands; let us know if a gate code or escort is needed.
Energy Information Administration listings show the Port Tampa Blending Terminal 9.1 miles east and the Tampa Terminal 9.9 miles east, both petroleum product terminals. For a tank truck that has loaded at either one, keep any terminal access records and service logs with the title so they come along at pickup.
Pinellas Park AFRC lies 4 miles south and MacDill Air Force Base 12.4 miles east, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. If your truck is parked on or near a base, tell us who can sign it out and what ID the gate will ask our driver for.
Liquid bulk and cement east of the causeway
A liquid bulk terminal run by CITGO Petroleum Corporation sits 15 miles east, as the Bureau of Transportation Statistics records it. Tanker tractors serving that dock are trucks we collect; send the tank’s specification plate photo with the cab shots.
Just beyond that dock, 15.2 miles from Feather Sound, stands the Tampa Cement Grinding Plant on Mine Safety and Health Administration rolls. Bulk pneumatic rigs and mixer chassis that load there qualify too, and a photo of the drum or trailer helps us match the unit to your description.
Warehouse payrolls, contractors and potted-plant growers
For 2023, the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts show 4,850 jobs in Feather Sound, 907 of them, or 18.7 percent, in transportation and warehousing, and 86 in manufacturing. Box trucks and day cabs from local distribution work are ones we buy, and their registration should match the name on the title.
Feather Sound’s 78 construction establishments, tallied in the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns, run dump trucks, flatbeds and service bodies. Any of those contractor units qualifies, and service records you hold make a useful addition to the photos.
Potted flowering plants, honey and cattle top the list for Pinellas County’s 115 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture. A stake-bed or livestock truck from one of those operations is welcome; if its title was lost, request a replacement from the state’s title agency before pickup.
The questions we get asked in Feather Sound
- Can you pick up a tractor sitting by the Port Tampa Blending Terminal rather than in Feather Sound?The Port Tampa Blending Terminal sits 9.1 miles east of Feather Sound in Energy Information Administration listings, and we collect from there or wherever the truck is parked. Tell us the lot owner so the visit can be arranged with them.
- Which documents does an intrastate Pinellas County hauler gather before pickup?With 121 of the 148 carriers in FMCSA’s census registered for intrastate work, most local trucks need only the Florida title and registration. Add any service records and clear photos of the cab, frame and data plate.