Stone next door
Quarries just east and north-west of Fountainebleau
Epic Stoneworks, Inc., a dimension-stone quarry listed by the Mine Safety and Health Administration, lies just 1.8 miles east of Fountainebleau. A flatbed or boom truck that moved cut slabs out of a yard like that can be collected right where it stands; send us the street address and the name of whoever holds the gate key.
Three miles north-west, Miami Quarry produces crushed stone, according to Mine Safety and Health Administration records. Dump trucks and end-dump tractors that hauled aggregate from its pit often sit on a contractor’s lot between jobs, so tell us whose lot it is and photograph the body, the cab and the VIN plate before you call.
Cement and mixers
Two cement plants on the western edge
The Miami Cement Plant stands 4.7 miles west of town, while the Pennsuco Cement Plant and the Pennsuco Quarry are both 7.4 miles north; the Mine Safety and Health Administration lists all three. Bulk cement tankers and ready-mix trucks that loaded at either kiln are the kind of equipment we buy, and the plant’s own delivery tickets help show where the truck worked.
If your mixer is still parked inside a plant fence near Pennsuco, you do not need to move it into Fountainebleau. Arrange site access, have the title in hand with the name matching your registration, and we schedule the pickup at the plant gate.
Hialeah’s rail yard and the Miami intermodal ramp
Rail lines meet trucks 4.1 miles north-east at the HIALEAH (FEC) yard listed on the North American Rail Network kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Day cabs that drayed boxes off that yard can be sold from the drop lot itself; give us the slot number or a gate contact.
A little farther out, at 4.9 miles in the same direction, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics lists the Miami, FL rail intermodal ramp. For a container tractor that ran ramp moves, share the VIN, the current odometer figure and a copy of the registration up front, since those three answer most of our first questions.
Liquid freight
Liquid bulk hauling out of Norfolk Southern TBT
Seven miles north-east, Norfolk Southern TBT appears in Bureau of Transportation Statistics listings as a liquid bulk terminal. A tank truck or tanker tractor that loaded there should come with its tank inspection paperwork if you still have it, along with the title.
Haulers who have since left Miami-Dade can leave the tanker parked near the terminal yard. We need only the location, a person on site who can unlock it, and signed ownership documents sent ahead.
Who works here
Local jobs in building and hauling
Of 13,171 jobs counted in Fountainebleau for 2023 by the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts (LODES), 306 sit in construction, about 2.3 percent. If you are a contractor here with a dump truck or stake bed to sell, bring the title and any service records to the first conversation.
The Census Bureau’s 2023 LODES job counts also show 115 transportation and warehousing jobs and 131 in wholesale trade, with 62 more in manufacturing. Box trucks and straight trucks from local distribution work fit what we purchase, and a few clear photos of the cargo area, the dash and each side are what we ask for first.
Foliage and flower growers across the county
USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 2,664 farms in Miami-Dade County, with foliage plants, potted flowering plants and cut flowers and cultivated greens at the top of the list. Refrigerated straight trucks and reefer tractors that carried plants from those growers are on our buying list.
If a nursery truck is still parked at the grower’s property, tell us which farm road it is on, whether a reefer unit is fitted, and whose name appears on the Florida title.
The questions we get asked in Fountainebleau
- Will you pick up an aggregate dump truck that is still sitting in the Pennsuco quarry yard?We can collect it in the yard. The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists the Pennsuco Quarry 7.4 miles north of Fountainebleau, and we arrange the pickup at that yard; give us the site contact who controls the gate.
- I hauled flowers for a Miami-Dade nursery. Do you buy reefer trucks?Reefer straight trucks and tractors from the nurseries are welcome. With 2,664 farms in the county on USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, where foliage and cut flowers top the list, refrigerated trucks from nursery work are ones we purchase; send photos of the box and the reefer unit along with the title.