We buy trucks in Fernandina Beach

One rail row sits under Fernandina Beach and no facility-level source was found for it. What moves through the yard, and how much, we do not know.

District colour is not a substitute. It would be easy to describe the trade of the surrounding area and let a reader take it as a description of this yard, and those are two different claims. Only one of them would be ours to make.

The second gap is the one more likely to matter to a seller. Florida’s agricultural and harvest weight provisions were not determined — Georgia, next door, gives forest and agricultural loads a 10 percent variance up to 88,000 lb off the interstate, and whether Florida has any counterpart was not established either way.

So it is worth being exact, because the distinction decides whether this page is useful or misleading.

“Not determined” means we looked and did not settle it. It does not mean there is no such provision. Absence and a value are different facts, and asserting the second from the first is precisely the error this project has ruled against — a research gap is never a finding that something does not exist.

So if your haul is agricultural, that is a question for the state rather than for us. What we can state is the general schedule, and for most trucks that is the number that decides the trip anyway: 80,000 lb gross for a combination, 70,000 lb for a single-unit.

Which leaves the thing every vehicle on this stretch of the Atlantic coast has in common, and it decides where an inspection starts.

Salt air and humidity put the underside first: frame rails and crossmembers, brake and air lines, electrical grounds, body mounts. Florida salts no roads anywhere, so none of it is road-salt damage — a buyer from a northern state finds less scaling than they expect and more corrosion at connectors and fastener heads.

So photographs of the underside and of the engine from both sides tell us more than a picture of the front does, and a wash history is worth mentioning. None of it stops us buying at 70,000 lb or at 80,000 lb.

Both of those sit under a weight rule written in an unusual way, and the shape of it is worth knowing even where the seasonal question is open.

Most states granting relief publish a commodity list. Florida issues a general divisible-load permit instead — ten per cent over legal gross, void on the interstate system — and a divisible load is simply one that could be split. So a great many loads are inside the relief without appearing on any list at all.

The exclusion is the catch: it does not reach a single-unit dump truck, mixer, waste vehicle or fuel tanker, which are held to 70,000 lb.

Fla. Stat. § 316.550(4) and § 316.535(6); agricultural and harvest provisions not determined. Information, not legal advice.

Those rules stop mattering the day the truck changes hands. We need a title unless the truck is old enough that it never had one.

Everything past that is a fix rather than a category. A lost title has a counter replacement; where none exists there is a bonded route. The plate stays in your name and comes off the truck.

Where an insurer has paid a total loss, an electronic lien recorded on the title is the thing that actually holds it up.

Fla. Stat. § 320.0609(1)(a) and § 319.30. Information, not legal advice.

All of it is iron we buy. Box trucks and straight trucks off route work. Day cabs and road tractors off the yard end of it. Dump trucks and aggregate haulers held to 70,000 lb where a combination gets 80,000 lb, flatbeds, tankers, rollbacks, service bodies and the pickups that go with a crew on the Atlantic coast.

Whatever you drive, the offer doesn’t change. We buy all of them.

• Does it have to run?No. It does have to be complete — if the engine, transmission, doors, rear ends, drive shafts, wheels or anything under the hood have been removed, we can’t buy it. Rust is not a disqualifier.
• The engine is out of it. Is that different?Yes, and that is the line. A tired engine is fine; an engine that has been pulled out and sold means we can’t buy the truck.
• Is there a harvest allowance that would have let it run heavier?We do not know, and we would rather say so than guess. Georgia grants 10 percent up to 88,000 lb; whether Florida does was not established, and that is a question for the state rather than for us.
• What about the title?We need one unless the truck is old enough that it never had one. A lost title has a counter replacement; where none exists there’s a bonded route.
• How do you pay?Cash or electronic payment, whichever suits you.

Beyond a truck that has simply done its turns, the reasons are personal ones. Retiring. A medical that went the wrong way. A contract that ended and left one truck more than the work needs, standing at a yard our file can tell you nothing else about, plated at 80,000 lb — a state line away from the 88,000 lb Georgia would have let it carry.

Most of those aren’t happy reasons, and we don’t treat them like they are. Somebody wants a straight answer and the truck gone by the end of the week. That’s what we’re here for.