A gap, named
One row, no source behind it, and no borrowed colour
One rail row sits under Inwood and no facility-level source was found for it. What moves through the yard, and how much, we do not know.
District colour is not a substitute and we are not going to use it as one. It would be easy to describe the trade of the surrounding area and let a reader take it as a description of this yard; those are two different claims and only one of them would be ours.
What can be said about the roads is statewide rather than local, because no bridge measurement attaches to this row. Florida maintains 45.1% of its structures at state level and its counties 31.0%, and 4.4% of structures statewide are coded below legal loads — among the mildest we have measured.
So the second open question is the one more likely to reach you
So the useful thing we can say about the roads is about who owns them, and it is the one question a driver cannot answer by looking at a bridge.
Florida’s 13,070 structures sit under four separate authorities. FDOT maintains 5,891 of them — 45.1% — the counties hold 4,048 at 31.0%, a state toll authority holds 1,345 and the cities hold 1,249.
That matters the moment a crossing is posted, because the tier decides who to ask about it — and this lane has already found three binding crossings maintained by a city rather than by a county or the state. A seller needs none of this. A driver planning a loaded route out of a yard does.
Which leaves the schedule we did settle
Which leaves the weight schedule, and unlike the ownership question that one is firm and short.
Florida allows 80,000 lb gross including all enforcement tolerances and 20,000 lb on a single axle, and holds a single-unit dump truck, mixer, waste vehicle or fuel tanker to 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 at all.
Those two numbers, and the ten thousand pounds between them, are the constraint most trucks in this state actually meet — more often than any of the 4,048 county structures or the 1,249 the cities hold.
Fla. Stat. § 316.535 and § 316.550(4). Bridge ownership from the FHWA National Bridge Inventory. Information, not legal advice.
Florida paperwork
The title question, in one sentence and its fixes
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.
What we buy here
All of it is iron we buy, on a network where 45.1% of the structures are FDOT’s and 31.0% belong to a county. Box trucks and straight trucks off route work. Day cabs and road tractors off the yard end of it. Dump trucks and aggregate haulers 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.
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 Inwood
- 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.
- Is there a harvest allowance that would have let it run heavier?We do not know, and we would rather say so than guess. Georgia grants 10 percent up to 88,000 lb; whether Florida does was not established, and that is a question for the state.
- 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 that ended and left one truck more than the work needs, standing at a yard our file can tell you nothing else about — on roads that are 45.1% FDOT’s and 31.0% somebody’s county, and idle on all of them.
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.