FMCSA’s carrier census lists 148 active carriers in Fruit Cove, and 106 of them mark general freight on their registration. If your tractor or box truck has spent its life on those dry-van and local delivery runs, tell us the body type and the axle setup when you first get in touch, and send the VIN with it.
Of those 148, the federal census counts 65 that run interstate and 83 that stay inside Florida, with 43 operating as private fleets hauling their own goods. A private-fleet truck is often registered to a business rather than a person, so have the company name on the title and someone who can sign for that company ready when we arrange collection.
New authority keeps arriving: 19 carriers registered in 2025 and 18 in 2024, according to FMCSA’s census. A first-time owner-operator selling a truck bought only a year or two ago should gather the purchase paperwork and any lien release before calling. The title has to be clear in your name for us to complete the sale.
Flatbeds for steel coil, machinery and timber
Thirty-one Fruit Cove carriers list machinery and large objects as cargo in the FMCSA census, and 25 list metal sheets, coils and rolls. Flatbed, step-deck and lowboy setups belong to that work; photograph the deck, the tie-down points and the tractor together so we see the whole combination you are selling.
Lumber, logs, poles and beams appear on 23 registrations in the same federal carrier census. Log trailers and knuckle-boom trucks are often kept out on rural lots in St. Johns County rather than at a house, so give us the exact pin or gate code for wherever yours is parked.
Local loops and long runs from Fruit Cove
Driver counts filed with FMCSA put 115 drivers within 100 miles of home and 181 beyond that radius. If your truck is out on a long route when you decide to sell, tell us where it will be parked once it is back, and we will plan the collection around that spot.
Among 42 carriers that reported both trucks and annual mileage, the median works out to 36,504 miles per truck, per FMCSA’s census filings. Read the odometer before you call and include a photo of the dash; that single number answers several of our questions at once.
Fleet sizes stay small here: the three biggest operations in FMCSA’s census run 22, 15 and 8 power units. Selling one truck out of a handful is routine for us, so list each unit separately with its own VIN and title.
Between September 2024 and August 2026, inspectors stopped 182 trucks run by Fruit Cove carriers, and FMCSA roadside inspection records give their median model year as 2019. Whatever year yours is, have the registration and the latest annual inspection sheet in the cab when we arrive.
Just over a quarter of that group, 26.9 percent by the FMCSA roadside inspection records, carried a model year ten or more years back. Older or newer, we need the same things: a signed title, matching VIN plates and a set of clear photos taken in daylight.
Rail, port and fuel north of town
The North American Rail Network shows the Bowden rail yard 10.1 miles north of Fruit Cove and the Jacksonville yard at 16.7 miles. The Bureau of Transportation Statistics places the Fowden Intermodal Terminal 11.1 miles north and the Port of Jacksonville 16.8 miles out. If your day cab is staged at one of those yards, tell us whose lot it is so the pickup is cleared with them.
Petroleum terminals sit along that same corridor; the Energy Information Administration lists Jacksonville South 15.5 miles north. Tank-truck owners who loaded there should keep the cargo tank test certificates with the title; we ask to see them.
Two military sites are close by: the Bureau of Transportation Statistics records DLA - DRMS 8.7 miles north-west and NAS Jacksonville at 9.3 miles. A truck parked behind a base gate needs an escort or a move to an open lot, so sort out access before the collection is booked.
Job-site dump trucks and horse haulers
The Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts for 2023 put 666 of Fruit Cove’s 4,827 jobs in construction, 13.8 percent, against 151 in transportation and warehousing. Dump trucks, mixers and stake beds from that building work are trucks we collect from the job site or the yard where they sit between projects.
Local builders account for 156 construction establishments on the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns rolls. A contractor closing out a truck should bring the business registration along with the title, so the signature matches the name on record.
Honey, equine and cattle lead the 223 farms that USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture lists for the county around Fruit Cove. Horse haulers, cattle trucks and farm flatbeds count too; send photos of the bed or box and tell us which barn or pasture gate to come through.
The questions we get asked in Fruit Cove
- My truck is registered to my small company. Which documents does a business-owned truck need?FMCSA’s carrier census shows 43 private fleets among Fruit Cove’s 148 carriers, and many titles here sit in a business name. Have the title, the registration and a person authorised to sign for the company.