Citrus County
Three quarries in this county, and the same answer at all three
The mine here employs 18 people and sits 0.92 miles from the middle of Lecanto, which is about as tightly as a registration in this lane resolves to its own place.
Within ten miles of it the National Bridge Inventory records 24 structures, not one coded below legal loads, and three of them posted for load. No commercial weight floor to report, and three signs.
That is the third quarry in Citrus County to come out the same way. The pits over towards Crystal River read 23 structures with three posted and 20 with three posted, and none of the three has a rating to report either.
So this is a county pattern rather than a pit one
So the interesting thing is that it repeats. Three separate operations, three separate ten-mile circles, and the same shape in all of them: nothing rated, signs anyway.
Citrus County posts one of the 28 bridges it maintains, and that single crossing binds a fourth quarry — the Red Level Mine — and not these three. So the county’s one rated restriction is somewhere else entirely, and what these pits meet is signage the rating data holds no cap for.
Florida posts 819 structures on one field and codes 579 on the other, so this direction of disagreement is the state norm. Meeting it three times in one county is what makes it a pattern worth naming.
Which puts the measurable limit back on the truck
Which means that around Lecanto the number that actually binds a loaded run is not on any bridge in the file.
A single-unit dump truck is held to 70,000 lb gross where a combination gets 80,000 lb — ten thousand pounds decided by configuration and not by the road. On a network with no published cap at all, and a pit sitting 0.92 miles from the middle of town, that is the constraint doing the work.
It shows up as more trips for the same tonnage, which is hours rather than miles. On a truck out of an 18-person Citrus County pit the hour meter is the number we would rather have.
Florida weight law
And the permit will not lift it
Those ten thousand pounds are not recoverable, which is the part people are most often surprised by.
Florida’s divisible-load permit adds ten per cent over legal gross and is void on the interstate system — and it explicitly does not reach a single-unit vehicle used as a dump truck, a concrete mixer, a waste collection vehicle or a fuel tanker. Around here almost nothing is interstate mileage, so the road condition costs nothing and the body condition costs everything.
Fla. Stat. § 316.550(4), with § 316.535(6). 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.
Fla. Stat. § 320.0609(1)(a). Information, not legal advice.
What we buy here
All of it is iron we buy across Citrus County. Dump trucks and aggregate haulers off the mine, held to 70,000 lb where a combination gets 80,000 lb. Day cabs and road tractors, flatbeds, box trucks, tankers, rollbacks, service bodies and the pickups that go with an eighteen-person 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 Lecanto
- 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.
- It passes three posted signs a shift. Is that a problem for a sale?No. All three Citrus County pits in our file read the same way — signs and no ratings — and the county’s one rated crossing binds the Red Level Mine instead.
- 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 pit contract that ended and left one dump truck standing in Citrus County with nothing booked for it, 0.92 miles from the middle of town and held to 70,000 lb besides.
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.