Twenty-seven carriers, mostly one or two trucks
FMCSA’s carrier census lists 27 active carriers based in Miami Shores, and the three biggest run two power units, one and one. Have the title in your own name or your company’s name, and the registration that matches it, before you call.
Of those 27, the federal census shows 16 hauling general freight and 5 carrying motor vehicles. A car hauler or a box truck parked on a residential street in the village is a normal pickup for us; send the VIN, a photo of the cab and one of the deck or box, and tell us whether it fits under the trees on your block.
Mostly local work, mostly inside Florida
Nineteen of the carriers here are registered for intrastate work and 8 for interstate work, according to FMCSA’s census, and 22 list drivers who stay within 100 miles. Wherever the truck sits between jobs, at your house, a nearby yard or a client’s lot, give us that address, and a name and phone number for whoever holds the gate key.
Nine of the Miami Shores registrations are private fleets, per the same FMCSA records: businesses hauling their own goods rather than freight for hire. If your truck belongs to a company that is not a trucking firm, have someone with signing authority ready, plus the title in the business name, so the paperwork matches the owner on record.
Container work off the port and the Hialeah yards
The Bureau of Transportation Statistics places the Port of Miami’s roll-on/roll-off terminal 6.8 miles south of Miami Shores and the POMTOC rail intermodal ramp at 6.7 miles. Day cabs that drag boxes between the port and the ramps are trucks we buy. If yours has been working the port, keep any terminal access records and service invoices together and send them along with your photos.
West of town, the North American Rail Network maps the CSXT yard at Hialeah 5.1 miles away and the FEC yard at Hialeah at 8.7 miles, and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics adds a second intermodal ramp in Miami 8.3 miles out. A tractor left near one of those yards does not need to be driven back to the village; tell us the lot and who manages it and we arrange the collection there.
Tank work south of the village, by rail and by water
Norfolk Southern TBT, a liquid bulk terminal, is 5.4 miles south-west of Miami Shores on the Bureau of Transportation Statistics list, and the Energy Information Administration records a petroleum product terminal on Fisher Island 5.8 miles south-east. Tractors that pull tankers from terminals like these are on our list. Tell us whether the tank trailer is part of the sale or stays with you, since that changes what we collect.
Two of the local carriers carry beverages and two haul refrigerated food, per FMCSA’s census. For a reefer unit or a beverage body, note the make of the refrigeration unit or the bay layout and photograph the inside as well as the cab.
Nurseries, building sites and the people who work here
Foliage, potted flowering plants and cut greens top the crop list for Miami-Dade’s 2,664 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture. Straight trucks with box or stake bodies move that nursery stock, and if yours has been on those routes it may be parked out at a grower’s place rather than in town. Send the grower’s address and the name of whoever will walk us to the truck.
The Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts show 5,003 jobs in Miami Shores in 2023, with 98 of them, about 2 percent, in construction. A dump truck or flatbed from that trade can be collected from a job site as well as a driveway; just let us know when the site is open and where on it the truck sits.
Starting out, or selling up, in the village
FMCSA’s census logs four Miami Shores carriers first registering in 2024 and three more in 2025. If you started hauling recently and are now selling the truck, and the truck still carries a loan, ask your lender for a payoff letter before we schedule the pickup.
Whether your operating authority is new or old, we need the same items in hand: the title, the current registration, a photo ID that matches the name on the title, and the keys. If the title is missing, tell us at the start so the replacement can be sorted out before collection.
The questions we get asked in Miami Shores
- My day cab pulls boxes at the Port of Miami terminal; does it need to come back up to the village first?The Bureau of Transportation Statistics puts the Port of Miami terminal 6.8 miles south of the village, and we collect from there or wherever else the truck is parked. Name the terminal lot and the dispatcher or guard who can clear our driver through.
- Will you take a car-hauling rig registered in Miami Shores?Five of the 27 carriers in FMCSA’s census for Miami Shores haul motor vehicles, and those rigs are trucks we purchase. Send the VIN, photos of the deck and ramps, and say whether the trailer is included.
- Our business hauls its own goods as a private fleet; is its truck one you purchase?Nine Miami Shores registrations are private fleets on FMCSA’s list, and we buy from businesses of that kind. Someone authorised to sign for the company needs to be available, with the title in the business name.
- Our straight truck sits at a foliage nursery elsewhere in Miami-Dade; will you pick it up on the grower’s property?Miami-Dade has 2,664 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, many growing foliage and flowering plants, and we pick up from farms and nurseries as readily as from homes. Give us the address and a contact who will be on the property.