Quarries and a cement plant west of the Turnpike
The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists Krome Quarry, a crushed-stone operation, roughly 3 miles south-west of Kendall West, and the Miami Cement Plant about 5.6 miles to the north. A dump truck or mixer that has run between those two sites is often parked in a yard close to them, so give us the yard’s street address and the name of whoever holds the gate key.
Two more mine sites appear on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list north-east of town: Miami Quarry at about 7.1 miles and Epic Stoneworks, a dimension-stone quarry, at about 8.6 miles. If your truck hauled block or aggregate out of either one, photograph the body, the tailgate and the VIN plate in daylight, and send those with the title so we can match the paperwork to the truck.
GENERAL CEMENT siding, Hialeah and PortMiami
On the North American Rail Network, kept by the Federal Railroad Administration with the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, a yard called GENERAL CEMENT shows up about 3.4 miles west of Kendall West, and the Florida East Coast yard at Hialeah sits about 11.4 miles north-east. Tractors that shuttle bulk loads to a rail siding like these tend to stay near the siding between runs; tell us which yard yours works so we can plan the collection there.
PortMiami is about 7.7 miles from town on Bureau of Transportation Statistics listings, and the Miami intermodal ramp is around 12.1 miles north-east. A day cab that pulls containers off either one should come with its registration and the most recent annual inspection sheet; those two documents answer most of what we ask before pickup.
Box trucks, car haulers and reefers on the census
Of the 793 active Kendall West motor carriers in FMCSA’s carrier census, general freight shows up on 537 registrations. If you are one of those owners selling a box truck or tractor, have the title in the name that appears on your USDOT registration, or a bill of sale linking the two, before we arrange collection.
Ninety-six local carriers list motor vehicles as cargo in the federal carrier census, so car haulers are part of the mix here too. For a car-carrier rig, send pictures of the deck and ramps along with the tractor, and tell us whether the trailer is part of the sale or staying with you.
Refrigerated food and meat each appear on 68 carrier registrations in the FMCSA census. If yours is a reefer unit, include the hour reading from the refrigeration unit and any service invoices you kept for it, since we ask about the reefer separately from the tractor.
Short runs and longer routes
According to the FMCSA carrier census, 618 local carriers operate intrastate only, 171 cross state lines, and 116 are private fleets moving their own goods. A truck that never leaves Florida usually sits at the owner’s home or shop in Miami-Dade, which is where we collect it; you do not need to move it anywhere.
The same federal census records 1,024 drivers working within 100 miles of base and 2,197 going beyond that. Across 146 local carriers that reported mileage, FMCSA puts the median at 32,324 miles per truck in a year. Write down the current odometer reading and VIN before you contact us; our first questions start from those two numbers.
New registrations keep arriving: FMCSA’s census shows 66 carriers here first registered in 2025 and 44 in 2024. A newer operation selling its only truck should still have the title, the registration and any lender release in one folder, ready when we call.
Kendall West tractors at the scale house: a 2013 median
The median truck among 312 from Kendall West carriers checked at roadside between August 2024 and August 2026 was a 2013 model, per FMCSA roadside inspection records. We buy trucks across that whole spread of model years, so give us the year, make and model as they read on the title.
In those same inspection records, about 69 percent of the inspected trucks were ten or more model years old. If you have the inspection reports from those stops, add them to the folder with the title and registration; they help confirm the VIN and the truck’s details.
Construction, nurseries and farm hauling
Census Bureau LEHD job counts for 2023 put 2,443 jobs in Kendall West, with construction holding 199 of them, or 8.1 percent, against 88 in transportation and warehousing and 66 in manufacturing. The Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns tallies 143 construction establishments in the area as well. Contractors selling a flatbed, a dump truck or a mixer can have the truck collected straight from the job site if that is where it is parked.
Miami-Dade County had 2,664 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, and foliage plants, potted flowering plants and cut flowers lead its list of products. Box trucks and reefers that move nursery stock out of the county’s growing areas can be collected at the nursery; tell us the farm road and gate details when you send photos.
The questions we get asked in Kendall West
- Must I haul my dump truck from its Krome Quarry yard into Kendall West before you take it?Leave it in the yard. Krome Quarry is about 3 miles south-west of Kendall West on Mine Safety and Health Administration listings, and the pickup happens right where the dump truck is parked. Send the yard’s street address plus the name of someone holding a gate key.
- What paperwork should I have ready to sell a truck here?The title, the current registration, and any inspection reports or service records you kept. FMCSA roadside inspection records list 312 inspected trucks from Kendall West carriers, and if yours was stopped, include that report too.
- Will you take the reefer I use to haul foliage and potted plants out of Miami-Dade nurseries?Reefers like that are on our list. USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture lists foliage plants as the top product among Miami-Dade County’s 2,664 farms, and the refrigerated trucks serving those growers qualify. Send the tractor’s VIN, the reefer unit’s hours and photos of both.
- Can you pick up a container chassis tractor near PortMiami?A tractor near the port is easy to reach. The Bureau of Transportation Statistics lists PortMiami about 7.7 miles from Kendall West, and we come to the truck wherever it is parked there or nearby. Tell us who manages the lot so the collection can be arranged with them.