Two installations within three miles of town
The Bureau of Transportation Statistics places the Hurlburt Field installation 1.2 miles east of the town that shares its name, and Eglin AFB Site 2 on Santa Rosa Island 2.6 miles to the south-west. If your truck is parked on a lot near either gate, give us the street address and the name of whoever can let a driver in, and we plan the collection around access rather than asking you to move the truck.
A seller posted here who is now leaving the area does not need to stay with the truck. Leave the keys and the title with someone you trust near Hurlburt Field, send us photos of the cab, the frame and the tires, and the sale can be finished by phone and email from your next station.
West of the gate
River Road Pit and the mines up the Panhandle
River Road Pit, a sand and gravel operation 8.8 miles west of Hurlburt Field, is on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list of mines, as is Quikrete Mine, a second sand and gravel site 21.3 miles to the north-west. Dump trucks and end-dump tractors that haul from pits like these are trucks we buy; tell us which site yours worked and how the body is configured.
Twenty-two and a half miles north-east of town, G2C Sand Mine appears in MSHA’s records as an industrial-mineral mine. If your truck sits at a pit gate or a yard out that way rather than in town, we collect it where it stands. Send the VIN, the odometer reading and a photo of the body raised if you can, and we take the conversation from there.
The Niceville terminal along the bay
East of Hurlburt Field by 15.4 miles, the Energy Information Administration lists a petroleum product terminal at Niceville. Tank trucks and the tractors that pull fuel trailers from a terminal like that one are on our list; tell us the tank’s capacity and the compartments it carries when you first get in touch.
Keep the tank test certificates and service records you hold for the unit, and send them with the photos so the truck’s history arrives in one place. If those papers were lost along the way, describe the work the truck did and we will ask about the rest.
The Shalimar counter on Eglin Parkway
The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles handles titles through county tax collector service centers and license plate agents, and lists the Okaloosa County motor vehicle service center - Shalimar at 1250 N. Eglin Parkway, Suite #101, Shalimar, 32579, on the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles’ office locator. On the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles’ listing, that counter is 8.4 miles from Hurlburt Field, close enough to request a duplicate title before you contact us.
If a lender still shows on the title, bring the lien release to the Shalimar center along with your ID, and keep the current registration with the truck. A clean title in your name, matched to the VIN on the door, is what lets the sale close without a second trip.
Wholesale, building and factory jobs around town
Wholesale trade accounts for 136 of the 1,790 jobs counted in the area for 2023 in the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts, a 7.6 percent share, with construction at 79 and manufacturing at 58. Box trucks and straight trucks on wholesale routes, and flatbeds and dump trucks from building sites, are all trucks we will look at.
Whichever of those trades your truck served, photos taken in daylight from all four corners, plus the cab interior and the plate on the door jamb, answer most of our first questions. Add the registration and any service records you have and send them together.
Okaloosa cotton and cattle
Cotton, cattle and horse farms inland
Okaloosa County counted 444 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, and Hurlburt Field sellers will find cotton, cattle and equine listed as the county’s leading products. Livestock haulers, grain trucks and the tractors that pull horse and cattle trailers are trucks we buy from farms inland of the coast.
A farm truck often sits in a barn or field for part of the year. Tell us the farm road it is parked on and whether a tow truck can reach it in wet weather, and keep the title and registration together so they travel with the truck when it leaves.
The questions we get asked in Hurlburt Field
- My truck is on a lot near the Hurlburt Field gate. Will a driver pick it up from that lot?The installation sits 1.2 miles east of town on the Bureau of Transportation Statistics’ listing, and we come to the truck wherever it is parked nearby. Give us the address and the name of a contact who can open the lot.
- Which Okaloosa County office in Shalimar issues a replacement Florida title?The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles lists the Okaloosa County motor vehicle service center - Shalimar at 1250 N. Eglin Parkway, Suite #101, 8.4 miles from town, per the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, as its nearest title counter.