Dimension limestone, six people, and a commodity string that fits
One registration sits under Florida City: Epic Stoneworks, six people, working Dimension Limestone as a surface operation.
The commodity string is worth a line because elsewhere in this state it has not fitted. A row at Dames Point carries Dimension Granite in a state with no granite at the surface, and a calcium operator in the panhandle is filed as industrial sand. Here the string and the geology agree: south Miami-Dade is limestone country, and dimension limestone is exactly what you would expect to come out of it.
We hold no bridge measurement for this node, so there is no network figure on this page. What sits just south of it is the thing worth knowing: US 1 and 113 miles of it, the only land route to Key West.
So this is the last ordinary road town before that starts
So a truck working out of Florida City can have had two completely different lives, and it is worth telling us which.
North of here is metro work: short legs, many drops, traffic and access as the constraint rather than any grade. South of here is 113 miles of single road across more than forty bridges with salt spray on both sides and nothing to route around. A vehicle that ran supplies down the Keys and back has a very different history from one that never left the mainland.
Dimension stone out of Epic Stoneworks goes on a flatbed rather than in a body, which is a third pattern again — slower loading, strapping and blocking, and weight concentrated rather than spread.
Florida weight law
Which the weight rule treats in two different ways
Both of those runs sit under the same schedule, and it splits by how the truck is built rather than by where it went.
Florida allows 80,000 lb gross including all enforcement tolerances and holds a single-unit dump truck, mixer, waste vehicle or fuel tanker to 70,000 lb. The divisible-load permit adds ten per cent over legal gross off the interstate system only and does not reach those single-unit vehicles at all.
Dimension stone on a flatbed is not a divisible load in the ordinary sense, and Florida’s indivisible-load permit terms were not extracted. We are not going to state them.
Fla. Stat. § 316.535 and § 316.550(4); indivisible-load terms not extracted. Information, not legal advice.
Florida paperwork
We need a title — unless the truck never had one
Those rules stop mattering the day the truck changes hands, and the paperwork is what is left.
A lost title has a counter replacement. Where none exists there is a bonded route. Neither is unusual and neither stops a sale.
The plate is the Florida detail people miss: it stays in the owner’s name and comes off the truck, to be moved to another vehicle of the same class or surrendered to the county tax collector.
Fla. Stat. § 320.0609(1)(a). Information, not legal advice.
What we buy here
All of it is iron we buy. Flatbeds off the Epic Stoneworks end of the trade, carrying dimension limestone. Dump trucks and aggregate haulers held to 70,000 lb where a combination gets 80,000 lb. Day cabs and road tractors, box trucks and straight trucks, tankers, rollbacks, service bodies and the pickups that go with a crew running supplies down US 1.
Whatever you drive, the offer doesn’t change. We buy all of them.
We buy complete trucks. If the engine, transmission, doors, rear ends, drive shafts, wheels or anything under the hood have been removed, we can’t buy it. Small things — a missing bumper — are fine.
Straight answers
The questions we get asked in Florida City
- 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.
- It ran the Keys route for years. Does that hurt it?It changes where we look rather than whether we buy. 113 miles of salt spray on both sides puts the underside first on anything out of Epic Stoneworks or anywhere else here, and a wash history matters more than the odometer.
- 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.
Why people call
Beyond a truck that has simply done its turns, the reasons are personal ones. Retiring. A medical that went the wrong way. A stone contract that ended and left one flatbed standing at Epic Stoneworks with nothing booked for it, plated at 80,000 lb and going nowhere.
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.