We buy trucks in Fort Pierce

Two rail-yard rows sit under Fort Pierce and they are one place. They lie 0.29 miles apart under the same carrier, and one name is the other with the first word abbreviated.

What identifies the pair is not the distance — two genuinely separate yards can sit closer than that. It is the match after normalising abbreviations and stripping punctuation, which across all 2,459 rows found five such pairs: Edge Moor and Edgemoor in Delaware, New Castle and Newcastle twice in Pennsylvania, De Butts and Debutts in Tennessee, and this one.

Beyond that we found no facility-level source for the yard at all. So this page will not tell you what moves through it or how much, because we do not know and district colour is not the same fact.

So the honest disclosure belongs near the top rather than in a footnote, because on a page like this one it is the most useful thing we have.

Florida’s agricultural and harvest weight provisions were not determined. Several states grant a seasonal or commodity allowance to farm haulage, and whether Florida does was not established either way.

That is not the same as saying there is none. “Not determined” and “does not exist” are different claims and only the first one is ours. For contrast, Georgia does grant forest and agricultural loads a 10 percent variance up to 88,000 lb off the interstate, and Florida grants no commodity variance at all — it issues a permit instead. If your haul is agricultural, that is a question worth putting to the state rather than to this page.

Which leaves the general schedule, and that part is firm.

Florida allows 80,000 lb gross including all enforcement tolerances and 20,000 lb on a single axle. A divisible-load permit adds ten per cent over legal gross, off the interstate system only, so a permitted truck on the state network is legally heavier than the same truck on I-95. And the ten per cent never reaches a single-unit dump truck, mixer, waste vehicle or fuel tanker, which are held to 70,000 lb.

Fla. Stat. § 316.535 and § 316.550(4); 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; a lost one has a counter replacement; where none exists there is a bonded route.

One Florida clock runs whether or not anyone is attending to it. A towing and storage operator in possession of a vehicle has a lien on it, and the vehicle can go to public sale 35 days after storage if it is more than three years old and 57 days if it is newer — a split by model year we have not met in another state.

The statute draws no distinction by vehicle weight, so a class-eight truck runs on the same clock as a car.

Fla. Stat. § 713.78. Information, not legal advice.

All of it is iron we buy, whichever spelling of the yard your paperwork uses. Box trucks and straight trucks off route work. Day cabs and road tractors. 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.

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.
• My paperwork spells the yard two different ways. Does that matter?No. Our own records carry it both ways, 0.29 miles apart, the same shape as Edge Moor and Edgemoor over in Delaware. It is one place either way and it has never affected a sale.
• 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 that two files spell two ways 0.29 miles apart — one of five such pairs nationally, alongside Edge Moor in Delaware.

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.