Sixty-three small carriers on the edge of Lake County
Fruitland Park is home base for 63 active motor carriers on FMCSA’s carrier census, a group where intrastate-only operators number 51 and just 12 haul across Florida’s borders. If your truck has stayed inside Florida, its registration and any state paperwork are the documents to pull together before you call us.
Of those 63 carriers, the federal census counts 31 as private fleets hauling their own goods rather than freight for hire. A business that owns one or two trucks for its own work can sell one of them to us without closing the business; we only need the title holder to sign.
Registrations keep arriving: the same FMCSA records show 9 new carriers here in 2025 and 6 in 2024. If you bought a truck to start one of those operations and now want out, the title in your name, or the lender’s release if it was financed, is what we work from.
General freight, machinery and vehicles on the cargo lists
Thirty-three Fruitland Park carriers tell FMCSA they haul general freight, 17 list machinery and large objects, and 16 list motor vehicles. Box trucks, lowboys and car haulers all fit that mix, and we buy each of them along with any trailer you own outright.
Farm supplies appear on 11 carrier filings in the federal census. Lake County’s growers, 1,569 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, lean toward foliage plants first, then propagative material and potted flowering plants. If your truck has run nursery stock between those growers, tell us whether a reefer unit or liftgate is fitted so we know what to look at on site.
Mileage reported to FMCSA by nine carriers from this town puts the middle truck at 25,000 miles yearly, so keep your own odometer log handy for comparison. Read the odometer and photograph the dash when you contact us, together with the VIN plate, and the rest of the conversation follows from those.
Quarries, sand and cement within ten miles
The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists the Okahumpka industrial-mineral mine 8.2 miles south-east of Fruitland Park. Dump trucks and end-dump tractors that worked that site can be collected where they are parked; send us the address and the name of whoever controls the gate.
South-west, about 9.8 miles out by MSHA’s listings, the Sumterville Cement Plant shares its distance with the Sumterville Mine, a crushed-stone quarry, and the Sumterville Quarry follows at 10.5 miles. Mixer trucks and aggregate haulers from those sites are trucks we purchase; hand over any MSHA site inspection sheets you kept along with the title.
To the north-east, the Weirsdale Sand Plant sits 10.2 miles away and Lisbon Sand lies 10.4 miles east, both sand and gravel operations on the Mine Safety and Health Administration register. A truck still parked in a pit yard does not need to be moved first; tell us where it sits and how a tow truck reaches it.
The Wildwood rail yard to the west
Drive 6.3 miles west from Fruitland Park and you reach the Wildwood rail yard, placed there by the North American Rail Network that the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics maintain. Tractors that shuttle loads between that yard and local customers are a fit for us, sleeper or day cab.
If your tractor is kept near the Wildwood yard rather than at home, give us that location and a phone number for the person who can let us in. We plan the pickup around where the truck stands, not where the owner lives.
Lake County building crews and their haulers
Construction accounts for 342 of the town’s 2,269 jobs in 2023, a 15.1 percent slice, in the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts for Fruitland Park. In the same LEHD figures, transportation and warehousing holds 58 jobs, or 2.6 percent, and wholesale trade 63, or 2.8 percent.
Forty-five construction establishments show up for the Fruitland Park area in the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns. If your dump truck, flatbed or service body belongs to one of those firms, the person who signs for the company should be the one named on the title, and a copy of the registration helps us match the two.
Roadside inspection records from FMCSA cover 38 trucks from Fruitland Park carriers checked between September 2024 and August 2026, with a median model year halfway between 2016 and 2017. Those FMCSA inspection records also show half of the 38 trucks were ten or more model years old when checked.
Whatever year your truck is, the documents are the same: the title, current registration, and service or inspection records if you have them. Add photos showing the cab interior, the frame rails and each axle’s tires. If the title is lost, request a duplicate from the Florida title office before pickup.
Among the larger local operators in the federal census, the top fleets run 9 power units with 10 drivers, 9 with 8 drivers, and 7 with 5. An owner with several trucks can sell one or all of them, and we collect each from wherever it is parked.
The questions we get asked in Fruitland Park
- My dump truck sits at a Sumterville quarry yard; must I haul it back into Fruitland Park first?The Sumterville Mine and the Sumterville Quarry sit about 9.8 and 10.5 miles south-west of town on MSHA’s listings, and we collect from either. Name the quarry and who holds the gate key there.
- My truck has never left Florida; is that a problem for selling it?Fifty-one of the 63 carriers in Fruitland Park on FMCSA’s census run intrastate only, so this is the usual case here. Have the title and Florida registration ready, and we handle the rest.
- Do you buy trucks used for nursery or farm deliveries?Lake County has 1,569 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, led by foliage and flowering plants, and we buy the box trucks, reefers and flatbeds that serve them. A VIN and a few photos of the nursery truck get things moving.