Sell your semi truck for cash in Hawthorne the easy and convenient way

Edgar Minerals, Inc., an industrial-mineral mine, lies 9.4 miles east of Hawthorne on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s roster, and KEUKA SAND PLANT sits a little farther out that way at 14 miles. If your dump truck or end-dump tractor has hauled out of either site, tell us which one and what the loads were, and send photos of the bed, the hoist and the cab.

Off to the north-east, the Mine Safety and Health Administration places Grandin Sand Plant at 13.9 miles and Goldhead Sand Plant at 17.8 miles from town, both listed as sand and gravel operations. A truck that worked those pits often stays parked near the haul road between jobs; give us that address and a gate contact, and we collect it where it sits.

South of town, Reddick Mine is a crushed-stone quarry 16.6 miles away, and Lowell Mine & Mill, another crushed-stone quarry, is 19.9 miles out, per the Mine Safety and Health Administration. Aggregate trucks that ran stone from those faces can be picked up at the quarry lot, a contractor yard or your driveway in Hawthorne.

Have the VIN, the registration and any scale tickets or service records for the quarry runs ready before you call. Those papers tell us how the truck was set up for stone work, and a clear photo of each side of the chassis fills in the rest.

FMCSA’s carrier census shows 65 active carriers based in Hawthorne, and the same census splits them into 56 intrastate-only operators, 9 that cross state lines and 20 private fleets hauling their own goods. Tell us which kind of operation your truck worked in, since an interstate unit may carry extra registration papers to hand over.

General freight is listed by 33 of those carriers, while 20 haul logs, poles, beams and lumber, and farm supplies and fresh produce each account for 10, according to the same FMCSA census. A log truck with its loader and bunks, or a produce reefer, is welcome; tell us what equipment stays on the truck and what comes off.

Among the fleets in that census, the biggest runs 24 power units with 22 drivers, the next has 7 trucks and the third has 4. An owner selling several units at once can list them all in one call, and we schedule a single visit to the yard.

For 11 local carriers that report mileage, FMCSA’s carrier census puts the median at 15,453 miles per truck in a year. Write the current odometer reading on your inquiry and attach a photo of the dash showing it.

Between August 2024 and August 2026, FMCSA roadside inspection records logged 49 trucks belonging to Hawthorne carriers, with 2013 as the median model year and 67 percent at ten or more model years. Whatever year your truck is, give us the model year and engine so we can match the right paperwork to it.

Around Hawthorne, cattle, propagative material such as nursery stock, and corn lead the farm list, and USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 1,712 farms across Alachua County. A livestock hauler, grain truck or nursery flatbed parked at a barn can be collected right there; send directions if the farm road has no street number.

The Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns lists 27 construction establishments for the area, and the LEHD job counts for 2023 place 394 jobs in Hawthorne itself. Contractors with a dump truck, stake bed or tool truck to sell can arrange the pickup at the job site or the shop.

The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles issues titles through county tax collector service centers and license plate agents; for Hawthorne the nearest is the Alachua County motor vehicle service center - Gainesville, at 12 SE First Street, Gainesville, 32601, about 14.4 miles from town. Bring your ID and the VIN there to apply for a duplicate if the original is missing.

If a lender is still on the title, ask the lienholder for a lien release before the sale, since that department records liens on the title itself. With the title in your name, the registration and the keys, the handover at your Hawthorne yard is straightforward.

• My dump truck sits at a sand plant north-east of Hawthorne; can you pick it up from the pit?Grandin Sand Plant and Goldhead Sand Plant sit 13.9 and 17.8 miles north-east of town on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list, and we collect from sites like those. Name the plant, the person who opens its gate and the row where your dump truck waits.
• Will you buy a Hawthorne log truck with its loader?Twenty Hawthorne carriers in FMCSA’s census haul logs, poles, beams and lumber, and we buy those trucks along with their loaders and trailers. Tell us which equipment is included.