We buy trucks in Holden Heights

One rail row is filed under Holden Heights. Its name is the yard at Orlando, and its coordinate falls inside Orlando city. So the row’s own name is the correct city and the attachment is the part that is wrong.

That is the cleanest version of a shape we keep meeting in this state. Elsewhere a city field named a place 265 miles from the coordinate; here the name and the coordinate agree with each other and only the filing disagrees. We report it rather than move the pin.

No facility-level source was found for the yard, so what moves through it and how much are things we do not know and are not going to describe.

So it is worth setting out the three shapes this lane has found, because they are not the same defect and they are not fixed the same way.

The first is a city field that is simply wrong: the Fort Myers Mine is filed to a city 265 miles away in the wrong half of the state, while its county and its coordinate agree with each other. The second is this one — the name is right and the attachment is not. The third has no municipal answer at all, where a coordinate falls outside every incorporated place.

Only the first of those is an error in the ordinary sense. This one is a filing that disagrees with a name that was already correct, and the third is a description of open country. We report all three rather than quietly resolving any of them, because which kind it is decides whether anything needs fixing at all.

Which leaves what can be said about the roads, and it is a statewide picture rather than a local one because we hold no bridge measurement for this row.

Florida maintains 45.1% of its structures at state level and its counties 31.0%, with a state toll authority and the cities holding most of the rest. Four tiers, and a driver cannot tell which one owns a crossing by looking at it. Statewide, 4.4% of structures are coded below legal loads, which is among the mildest road environments we have measured anywhere.

None of that is a promise about any particular route out of here. It is the shape of the state, and it is what we have.

Both of those gaps sit beside a general schedule that is firm and short.

Florida allows 80,000 lb gross including all enforcement tolerances and 20,000 lb on a single axle, and caps a single-unit dump truck, mixer, waste vehicle or fuel tanker at 70,000 lb. A divisible-load permit adds ten per cent over legal gross off the interstate system only, and does not reach those single-unit vehicles.

Fla. Stat. § 316.535 and § 316.550(4). 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.

Everything past that is a fix rather than a category. A lost title has a counter replacement; where none exists there is a bonded route. The plate stays in your name and comes off the truck.

Where an insurer has paid a total loss, an electronic lien recorded on the title is the thing that actually holds it up.

Fla. Stat. § 320.0609(1)(a) and § 319.30. Information, not legal advice.

All of it is iron we buy, under whichever of the two names your paperwork carries. Box trucks and straight trucks off route work around Orlando. Day cabs and road tractors, dump trucks 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 address says one place and the yard is called another. Does that matter?No. Our own row here is named for Orlando and filed under this community, and the Fort Myers Mine in Lee County is filed to a city 265 miles from its own coordinate. Files disagree with each other constantly. We work from where the truck actually is.
• 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 box truck more than the work needs, standing at a yard whose own name says Orlando while the filing says otherwise — the same disagreement the Fort Myers Mine carries at 265 miles, and just as harmless to a sale.

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.