A manufacturing workforce on Inwood’s doorstep
Manufacturing held 929 of Inwood’s 1,346 workplace jobs in 2023, or 69 percent, as tallied in the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts. If your box truck, straight truck or tractor has been on a factory route here, tell us which plant it served and roughly how many years it ran there.
Plant trucks often stay parked at the shipping dock or in a fenced yard after the last shift. Give us the street address, the name of whoever holds the gate key and the hours the lot is open, and we will set the pickup around the plant’s schedule instead of yours.
Have the title in the name that matches the registration before you call. If the business that owns the truck has changed its name since it was titled, say so up front and bring any paperwork showing the change.
Inwood trucks on the Auburndale and CFILC rail lines
Just 1.9 miles north-west of Inwood, the North American Rail Network maintained by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics shows the Auburndale rail yard. A tractor that has pulled chassis or flatbeds in and out of that yard can be collected from wherever it sits now; send us a photo of the VIN plate and the odometer so we start from the right numbers.
South-east of town by 8.2 miles, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics lists a rail intermodal ramp at Winter Haven, and the same rail network records the CFILC yard 8 miles out. Day cabs that drayed containers off that ramp are welcome here, sleeper or not.
When you photograph a drayage tractor, include the fifth wheel, the frame rails, all tires and the inside of the cab. Pictures that match what you tell us on the phone keep the questions short.
Haines City, Van Fleet and the south-west mineral mines
Mine Safety and Health Administration records place the Haines City Mine, a sand and gravel operation, 11.9 miles east of Inwood, and the Van Fleet sand and gravel pit 12.2 miles north. Dump trucks and end-dump trailers that hauled from either pit fit what we buy; tell us the bed length and axle setup when you reach out.
Heading south-west, the Mineral Grow industrial-mineral mine lies 14.6 miles away and the Four Corners mine 22.8 miles away, both on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list. If your truck is still parked at a mine gate or a contractor’s yard out that way, we can arrange the collection there, so long as someone can let us onto the property.
Keep any service records, scale tickets or site inspection sheets that travelled with a pit truck. They help us understand the work it did, and if none survive, describing its routes and loads is enough to start.
Tankers loading at the terminal toward the west
A liquid bulk terminal sits 14.2 miles west of Inwood on the Bureau of Transportation Statistics’ terminal list. Tractors and straight tank trucks that loaded at a site like that are part of what we purchase, with or without the trailer.
For a tanker, tell us what product it carried and whether the tank has been cleaned and certified, and have the latest tank inspection paperwork to hand. If the trailer belongs to someone else, let us know so the sale covers only the tractor.
Hives, herds and nursery stock on Inwood’s farm roads
Polk County had 2,197 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, with cattle, honey and foliage plants among its leading products. Livestock haulers, flatbeds that move bee hives and box trucks that carry nursery stock are all trucks we will look at from Inwood’s farm country.
A farm truck is often titled to a family member or to the farm itself rather than to the driver. Check whose name is on the Florida title before we arrange a visit, and if it was registered with farm plates, tell us that as well.
Farm trucks tend to sit in a barn or pasture between seasons. Give us directions to the gate and a note on how firm the ground is, and we will send the right tow equipment to reach it.
The questions we get asked in Inwood
- My dump truck hauled from the Haines City Mine and still sits beside that pit, so will you pick it up from the mine?The Haines City Mine is 11.9 miles east of Inwood on Mine Safety and Health Administration records, and we can collect from the site itself. Give us the mine contact who unlocks the gate and we will schedule around their shift.
- I pulled containers off the Winter Haven ramp for years. Is that drayage tractor something you buy?Winter Haven’s intermodal ramp lies 8.2 miles south-east of Inwood according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, and drayage tractors from it are trucks we buy. Send the VIN, the odometer reading and photos of the cab and frame to begin.
- The truck belonged to the Inwood plant I worked for. Which papers should come with it?With 929 of Inwood’s 1,346 jobs in manufacturing on the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts, plant-owned trucks are common here, and the title must be signed by the business named on it. Ask the company for a signed title and its registration before you contact us.