We buy trucks in Okahumpka

The operation filed under Okahumpka is a surface mine working industrial sand, carried under MSHA ID 0801404 with Universal Aggregate Solutions, Inc. as the operator of record, and eight people reported on it.

Industrial sand is worth separating from crushed stone, because the two produce different trucks and different paperwork. Most of the pits in this file are rock; this one is sand by design.

Eight people is a small registration, which usually means a short haul and a handful of vehicles doing all of it rather than a rotating fleet.

So the first thing that follows from the commodity is a federal one, and it reaches the driver rather than the operator. MSHA Part 46 covers sand, gravel, surface stone, surface clay, surface limestone, colloidal phosphate and shell dredging, and this surface operation sits inside that scope.

What Part 46 requires is site-specific hazard awareness training for over-the-road delivery drivers, before work at each mine site. Not once for a career — at each site. A driver who runs into four pits carries four of them.

That is worth mentioning here because it is a real part of what a Lake County sand truck’s working life looked like, and it is the kind of thing a seller forgets is even unusual.

Which leads to the other federal rule attached to this kind of mine. MSHA’s respirable crystalline silica rule sets a permissible exposure limit of 50 µg/m³ and an action level of 25 µg/m³, and the metal and nonmetal compliance date of 8 April 2026 is now past.

It applies sharply to industrial sand for a plain reason: the commodity is substantially silica by design, rather than a rock that happens to contain some. That is stated as a property of the material — no measured exposure at this site was found, and none is claimed here.

For a seller none of that changes what a truck is worth to us. It is context for why a Lake County sand hauler off a Universal Aggregate Solutions pit may have run with dust controls and wash-downs that a rock truck did not.

So the federal side is the mine. The state side is the load, and it has one clause that decides this trade.

Florida allows 80,000 lb gross including all enforcement tolerances and 20,000 lb on a single axle. A single-unit vehicle used as a dump truck, mixer, waste vehicle or fuel tanker may not exceed 70,000 lb gross including the weight of the vehicle, and the divisible-load permit — ten per cent, off the interstate system only — expressly does not reach those single-unit vehicles.

Fla. Stat. § 316.535 and § 316.550(4). Information, not legal advice.

Those are the load. The paperwork is what decides how quickly a sale closes. We need a title unless the truck is old enough that it never had one.

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 stays in the owner’s name rather than going with the truck — transferred to a replacement vehicle of the same class, or surrendered to the county tax collector.

Fla. Stat. § 320.0609(1)(a). Information, not legal advice.

All of it is iron we buy across Lake County. Sand and aggregate haulers off the pit, held to 70,000 lb where a combination gets 80,000 lb, day cabs and road tractors, flatbeds and lowboys for the plant, box trucks, tankers, rollbacks, service bodies and the pickups that go with a small crew — the same through Leesburg and down towards Wildwood.

Whatever you drive, the offer doesn’t change. We buy all of them.

• 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 hauled sand rather than rock. Does that matter to you?Not to the offer. It matters to what we expect to find: a Lake County industrial sand truck often carries dust controls and a wash-down habit a rock truck does not, and it is still the same 70,000 lb tipper or 80,000 lb combination underneath.
• 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.

Beyond a truck that has simply done its turns, the reasons are personal ones. Retiring. A medical that went the wrong way. A haul contract off the Universal Aggregate Solutions pit that ended and left one tipper standing in a Lake County yard with nothing booked for it.

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.