A clean run of forty-six, and a pit that is not where it says
The registration filed under Kissimmee is a materials operation with 13 people, and within ten miles of it the National Bridge Inventory records 46 structures with nothing posted for load and nothing coded below legal loads. Both fields empty, which is the genuine clean case rather than the posted-only one we keep meeting elsewhere.
The other number is 26.49 miles, which is how far that pit sits from the middle of the city it names. Its county field and its coordinate agree with each other; the city field agrees with neither.
That is an office address rather than a geography — the commonest defect in this data, and the reason we give the distance instead of writing about a quarry in town.
So the two facts pull in opposite directions, usefully
So there is something worth noticing in having both on one page, because they are the two halves of what a road measurement can tell you.
The bridge count is precise and local: 46 structures the National Bridge Inventory records inside a circle drawn around a coordinate we trust, and nothing in it that would stop a loaded truck. Statewide only 4.4% of structures are coded below legal loads, so a clear run is the ordinary outcome rather than a lucky one.
The city name is neither precise nor local. It records where somebody’s paperwork lives. So the roads around the pit are well described here and the pit is not where the filing implies, and both of those are worth a seller knowing.
Florida weight law
Which leaves the truck as the thing doing the limiting
Which puts the binding number back on the vehicle, since 46 structures produced no cap at all.
A single-unit vehicle used as a dump truck, a concrete mixer, a waste collection vehicle or a fuel tanker may not exceed 70,000 lb gross, against 80,000 lb for a combination including all enforcement tolerances. The divisible-load permit that adds ten per cent off the interstate system does not reach those vehicles at all, so the difference cannot be permitted back.
Fla. Stat. § 316.535(6), with § 316.550(4). Information, not legal advice.
Florida paperwork
We need a title — unless the truck never had one
Those numbers 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.
The plate is the Florida detail people miss: it stays in the owner’s name and comes off the truck, to be moved to another vehicle of the same class or surrendered to the county tax collector.
And one figure worth knowing before you assume anything about a branded title: Florida calls a vehicle salvage where repair reaches 80 per cent of the cost to REPLACE it with one of like kind and quality. New York measures 75 per cent of retail value at the time of loss instead. Same idea, different denominator, different answer on an older truck.
Fla. Stat. § 320.0609(1)(a) and § 319.30(3)(a). Information, not legal advice.
What we buy here
All of it is iron we buy, in town or 26.49 miles out at the pit. Dump trucks and aggregate haulers held to 70,000 lb where a combination gets 80,000 lb. Box trucks and straight trucks off route work, day cabs and road tractors, 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 Kissimmee
- 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 registered address and the yard are miles apart. Does that matter?No. Our own row here has a pit 26.49 miles from the city on its paperwork, and the National Bridge Inventory count that matters is drawn around the pit rather than the address. We work from where the truck is.
- 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 dump truck more than the work needs, standing 26.49 miles from the city its paperwork names, held to 70,000 lb and going nowhere.
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.