Polk County
Two rows ten miles away, and both of them correctly filed
Two rows are filed under Indian Lake Estates and both resolve about ten miles away: Arbuckle Airfield at 10.13 miles and the Avon Park air force range at 11.56. On most of the pages in this state a distance like that is a defect, and we say so when it is.
Here it is not. A range and an airfield are not points — they cover a great deal of ground, and the nearest named place to the middle of one is often ten miles from it. Both of these are correctly filed, and the resolution class they belong to is the one we treat as right rather than broken.
Acreage, strength and mission were not established for either, so neither gets described. Both coordinates return Polk County.
So it is worth saying how that differs from the ones we do report
So the distinction is worth drawing plainly, because we have flagged long resolutions elsewhere in Florida and it would be inconsistent to pass this one without saying why.
The defective kind is an office address: a company with a yard in one place and a registration in another, so the city field records where the paperwork lives rather than where the trucks are. We have found those at 58 miles and at 265 miles in this state, and each time the county and the coordinate agreed with each other while the city agreed with neither.
Arbuckle Airfield at 10.13 miles is the other kind: the coordinate, the county and the name all agree, and the distance is a property of how big the thing is. One is a filing error and one is geometry.
Florida weight law
Which leaves the rule, and one gap inside it
Which leaves the weight law, and on a page with two thin rows it is the most concrete thing available.
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. The divisible-load permit adds ten per cent over legal gross off the interstate system only — the same inversion we have now met in twelve states — and it does not reach those single-unit vehicles.
Florida’s indivisible-load permit terms were not extracted and we are not going to state them. Nor was the posted-bridge list located. Both are named rather than guessed.
Fla. Stat. § 316.535 and § 316.550(4); indivisible-load terms not extracted. Information, not legal advice.
Florida paperwork
We need a title — unless the truck never had one
Those rules stop mattering the day the truck changes hands, and the paperwork is what is left.
A lost title has a counter replacement. Where none exists there is a bonded route. Neither is unusual and neither stops a sale.
On anything that worked inside a range or an airfield, settle first whether it was ever road-registered, because for those it is a title question before it is a condition question. The plate, where there is one, stays in your name.
Fla. Stat. § 320.0609(1)(a). Information, not legal advice.
What we buy here
All of it is iron we buy. Dump trucks and aggregate haulers, held to 70,000 lb where a combination gets 80,000 lb. Flatbeds and lowboys off equipment moves around the Avon Park range. Day cabs and road tractors, box trucks, tankers, rollbacks, service bodies and the pickups that go with a crew anywhere in Polk County.
Whatever you drive, the offer doesn’t change. We buy all of them.
We buy complete trucks. If the engine, transmission, doors, rear ends, drive shafts, wheels or anything under the hood have been removed, we can’t buy it. Small things — a missing bumper — are fine.
Straight answers
The questions we get asked in Indian Lake Estates
- 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.
- The truck is ten miles from anywhere. Do you still come?Yes. Ten miles is ordinary out here — the Avon Park range alone resolves 11.56 miles from the nearest named place — and where a visit makes no sense we buy it where it stands and arrange the tow.
- 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.
Why people call
Beyond a truck that has simply done its turns, the reasons are personal ones. Retiring. A medical that went the wrong way. A contract out at the Avon Park range that ended and left one truck standing in Polk County with nothing booked for it.
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.