Rock and sand pits within miles of LaBelle
The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists Stallings Claim, a crushed-stone quarry, 2.7 miles north of LaBelle, and the Tomahawk 29 Mine, a sand and gravel operation, 3.8 miles to the north-east. A dump truck or end-dump tractor that has worked those two pits can usually be collected right where it sits; give us the gate details and a phone number for whoever holds the key.
Further out on the same side of town, the Witherspoon Sand Plant sits 8.3 miles north-east and PJM Rock Mine & Aggregates 15.6 miles east, both on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s register. If your truck is parked at one of those yards rather than at home, tell us which one, and send photos of the cab, the bed and the VIN plate so we know what to expect when we arrive.
Two industrial-mineral mines round out the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s nearby list: Bell Mine, 16.3 miles south-west, and Neal Aggregates, 24.6 miles north-west. A truck kept at either mine yard can be collected there, as long as someone can let us through the gate.
LaBelle and its surroundings are home to 541 active carriers on FMCSA’s carrier census. In that same FMCSA count, 451 haul intrastate only and 90 cross state lines, while 197 operate as private fleets moving their own goods. Whichever group you belong to, the sale starts the same way: the title in your name, the registration, and the USDOT number the truck operates under.
General freight is the cargo listed most often, carried by 288 of those carriers in the FMCSA carrier census, followed by fresh produce at 106, machinery and large objects at 73, and farm supplies at 68. Reefer units, lowboys, flatbeds and dry vans all show up in that mix, and we buy each of them along with the tractor that pulls it.
New registrations keep arriving: FMCSA’s carrier census records 37 new carriers here in 2024 and 34 in 2025. If you are one of those newer operators and the truck still carries a lien, have the lender’s name and payoff contact ready so the title can be released when the sale closes.
Short hauls, varied fleets
Local hauls, big fleets and owner-operators
Drivers here mostly stay close to home: the FMCSA carrier census puts 1,257 drivers within 100 air miles of base and 587 beyond it. A short-haul truck is usually back in the yard each night, which makes it easy to photograph and easy for us to reach.
Among the 146 carriers that reported annual mileage to FMCSA’s carrier census, the median works out to 24,900 miles per truck. Put that figure on the listing as it appears on the odometer; an accurate reading and a clear dash photo answer most of our questions before we ask them.
Fleet size ranges widely. The FMCSA carrier census shows the three largest operations based in the area running 570, 92 and 72 power units, with 315, 33 and 35 drivers respectively. A fleet manager clearing several units at once can send one list of VINs and yard locations, and we will plan collection across all of them.
Pasture and produce
Ranch and produce trucks off Hendry County farms
USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 392 farms in Hendry County, with cattle, horses and honey listed as the top products. Livestock haulers and farm flatbeds come off those properties, and a farm truck parked in a pasture or barn is somewhere we can collect from.
Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting supply 197 of the 4,128 jobs located in LaBelle, or 4.8 percent, according to the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts for 2023. If your farm truck was titled through a ranch or family business rather than in your own name, bring the paperwork showing who can sign for that entity.
Contractors and suppliers
Construction and trade work out of LaBelle
Construction accounts for 167 jobs in LaBelle, 4 percent of the local total, in the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts for 2023. Contractors’ dump trucks, water trucks and flatbed haulers from those crews are trucks we buy, whether they sit at a job site or a shop lot.
The same LEHD counts place 69 jobs in manufacturing and 57 in wholesale trade. Box trucks and straight trucks that make deliveries for those businesses qualify too; tell us the gross vehicle weight rating from the door sticker and whether a liftgate or reefer unit is fitted.
Routing a pickup past LaBelle’s posted spans
There are 21 bridges in the LaBelle area on the National Bridge Inventory, and two of them carry posted load limits. The same National Bridge Inventory lists none of the 21 under 14 feet of clearance.
With two posted spans on the National Bridge Inventory nearby, tell us the truck’s empty weight and the road it is parked on. We plan the tow route around those bridges and go over it with you on the phone.
The questions we get asked in LaBelle
- I haul produce only inside Florida. Is an intrastate-only truck one you buy?Intrastate haulers make up 451 of the 541 active carriers in FMCSA’s carrier census for this area, and we buy their trucks the same as interstate ones. Have the Florida title and registration in hand, plus the reefer unit’s hours if it has one.
- Will a posted bridge stop you from getting to my truck?Two of the 21 bridges around LaBelle on the National Bridge Inventory carry posted load limits, and none is under 14 feet. Tell us the road the truck is on and we will plan a route that avoids the posted spans.