Ninety-nine carriers in a Monroe County town
General freight is the cargo 37 of Marathon’s 99 active carriers write on their registrations with FMCSA’s carrier census. If your truck delivered groceries, building supplies or mixed loads around Monroe County, it fits the work this town is registered for. Have the title, the current registration and the VIN ready before you contact us, and the conversation can start with the truck itself.
Refuse collection shows up strongly for a small place: 18 carriers here list garbage, refuse and trash as cargo, according to the same federal census. Roll-off trucks, rear loaders and dumpster haulers that served Monroe County businesses and households are trucks we buy. Send photos of the body and the chassis plate together, so the equipment and the cab arrive as one record.
Heavy and long loads
Machinery, beams and lumber on the Keys
Seventeen Marathon carriers haul machinery and large objects, and 14 more carry logs, poles, beams and lumber, per FMCSA’s registration records. Lowboys, flatbeds and boom trucks that moved pilings, generators or framing lumber around town belong on our list. Tell us what trailer or body was paired with the tractor and whether it is included.
The Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns counts 50 construction establishments in the area, and LEHD job counts place 290 construction jobs among Marathon’s 3,834 total for 2023. A dump truck or a crane carrier owned by a builder is as welcome as one owned by a trucking company. Keep any service log the contractor kept; it travels with the truck at pickup.
Florida-only authority and short driver radii
Of the town’s registered carriers, 87 run intrastate only and 12 hold interstate authority, FMCSA reports, while 45 operate as private fleets hauling their own goods. A Florida-only truck still needs a clean Florida title in the seller’s name, so check that the name on it matches yours before we schedule anything.
Drivers here split 125 within a 100-mile radius and 93 beyond it, according to the federal carrier census. Whether your rig stayed local or ran long, tell us the yard or street where it sits now, and we collect it there.
A Marathon truck logs a median 24,000 miles a year, going by the sixteen carriers here that filed annual mileage with FMCSA. Read the odometer when you photograph the dash and give us that figure along with the VIN.
Model years across sixty-one roadside checks
Roadside inspection records from FMCSA cover 61 Marathon-based trucks checked between September 2024 and August 2026; the median model year among them was 2016, and 54.1 percent were ten or more model years old. Whatever year yours is, give us the year, make and model in your first message.
Those inspection reports are public, and if your truck appears in them, keep a copy with the title. Each one records the unit and the date, which helps match your paperwork to the vehicle we come to collect.
Nineteen, eighteen and fourteen power units at the top
The three biggest fleets registered in Marathon run 19, 18 and 14 power units, FMCSA’s census shows, with 8, 12 and 16 drivers respectively. A company selling several units at once can send one list of VINs and locations, and we work through them together rather than truck by truck.
Marathon gained 9 freshly registered carriers in 2025 after 8 in 2024, a tally kept in the federal carrier census. If you started an outfit recently and are scaling back, a truck bought in the last two years sells the same way as an older one, with the title and registration in hand.
Load limits
Three posted spans in the Marathon area
Of the 17 Marathon-area structures in the National Bridge Inventory, 3 carry a posted load limit, and not one sits below 14 feet of clearance. When you give us the pickup address, mention whether the route to it crosses a posted span, so we can plan the right equipment for the haul out.
Monroe County’s farm sector is small, with 39 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, led by aquatic plants, corn and potted flowering plants. Nursery and aquaculture growers who own a box truck or a reefer can sell it to us the same way a freight hauler does: photos, title and the address where it is parked.
The questions we get asked in Marathon
- My Marathon-registered truck is parked in another Monroe County town, so does the collection happen where it sits?Drivers registered in Marathon report 125 working within 100 miles, per FMCSA’s carrier census, and 93 working beyond that radius. Give us the exact town and street address where yours is parked and we arrange the pickup there.
- I ran a packer on Marathon garbage routes. Is a trash truck something you buy?Eighteen Marathon carriers list garbage, refuse and trash on their FMCSA registration, and their roll-offs and packers are trucks we buy. Send photos of the body and the VIN plate with your title.
- My tractor predates the 2016 median for Marathon trucks; do you still want to hear about it?FMCSA roadside inspection records put the median model year of 61 Marathon trucks at 2016. Put your truck’s model year next to that 2016 figure in your first message, along with the make and the VIN.