Kilns and limestone pits
Hernando’s cement plant and quarries, west of town
West of North Brooksville by 5.8 miles, the Brooksville South Cement Plant turns up in Mine Safety and Health Administration records as an active cement operation. A mixer or bulk cement tractor that has loaded there can stay parked at the yard or your driveway when you sell; tell us which of the two it is and whether a loader or other equipment blocks the way out.
Brooksville Quarry, a crushed-stone operation 6.7 miles west, and the Calcium Plant quarry 7.1 miles to the north-west both appear on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s register. Tri-axle dumps and end-dump trailers that have hauled rock between those pits and Hernando job sites are trucks we buy, so photograph the body, the hoist and the tailgate along with the cab.
Keep the scale tickets or haul logs from those quarries if you still have them. They show the routes the truck ran between Brooksville Quarry, the Calcium Plant and the cement plant, and that history saves a round of questions when we look the truck over.
Sumter and the south-west
County Line Mine and the Sumterville cement plant
South-west of town, 17.5 miles out, the Mine Safety and Health Administration records County Line Mine as an industrial-mineral mine. A truck that has been working that site does not need to come back toward North Brooksville to sell; give us the gate or yard address down there and we plan the pickup at that spot.
On the far side of the county line, the Sumterville Cement Plant lies 20.7 miles north-east, per the Mine Safety and Health Administration. Bulk tankers and pneumatic trailers that shuttle between Sumterville and the Brooksville South plant may be sitting at either end of that run, so say which plant the tractor parks nearest when you send the VIN.
North Brooksville contractors and their dump trucks
Construction held 51 of North Brooksville’s 377 jobs in 2023, or 13.5 percent, in the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts for the town. Contractors on that payroll run dump trucks, flatbeds, stake bodies and service trucks, and any of them can be sold from a job site or a shop lot in town.
For a construction truck, have the title, the current registration and any body or crane inspection paperwork in one folder before you call. Photos of the bed, the lift equipment and the dash with the odometer showing let us see the whole unit from your first message.
Pasture and paddocks
Hernando cattle, horse and goat operations
USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 761 farms in Hernando County, with cattle, equine and goats listed as the top livestock categories. Farm owners around North Brooksville often keep a livestock hauler, a flatbed for hay or a single-axle straight truck that rarely leaves the property.
A ranch truck can be collected right where it is parked, whether that is a barn lot, a pasture gate or a feed store yard. Tell us how the ground is around it after rain and whether a trailer stays hitched, and we bring the right equipment for that spot.
Lien releases and signers
Whose name is on the mixer or dump truck title
The name on the title should match the seller, and a cleared lien needs its release letter from the lienholder. If the title is lost, the state’s title agency issues a duplicate, and starting that request early keeps the sale moving once the truck is picked out.
Service invoices from local shops, a copy of the registration and the VIN plate photo go a long way. Business owners selling a truck titled to a company should have a signer for the company named before the pickup date is set.
The questions we get asked in North Brooksville
- Will you collect a mixer parked near the Brooksville South Cement Plant?The Brooksville South Cement Plant is 5.8 miles west of North Brooksville on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list, and a mixer parked there or anywhere along that road can be collected in place. Share the plant-side address plus the VIN so the collection can be planned.
- Will you take a dump truck that hauls rock out of Brooksville Quarry?Brooksville Quarry and the Calcium Plant are crushed-stone sites 6.7 and 7.1 miles out, according to the Mine Safety and Health Administration, and tri-axle and end-dump trucks that serve them are on our list. Shots of the dump body raised on its hoist round out the photo set.
- I keep a livestock truck on a Hernando County farm. Does it have to leave the pasture to be sold?Hernando County’s 761 farms, counted by USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, lean toward cattle, horses and goats, and a hauler from one of them is picked up at the farm. Describe the lane from the county road out to where it sits.
- My quarry dump truck’s title went missing somewhere between the yard and the office; how do I replace it?A North Brooksville owner with a missing title applies for a duplicate through the state’s title agency. Start that request before the pickup so the paperwork is ready when the truck is.