Mixed freight, car haulers and movers on the Space Coast
Of the 681 active Palm Bay carriers on FMCSA’s carrier census, general freight is the cargo listed by 405. If your truck is a box truck or tractor that has moved mixed loads around Brevard County, gather the title, the current registration and a few clear photos of the cab, the frame and the tires before you call us.
Motor vehicles come next on the federal list, carried by 90 Palm Bay carriers, with 70 hauling machinery and large objects and 58 moving household goods, according to FMCSA’s carrier census. Car haulers, lowboys and moving vans all fit what we collect, so tell us the body type and any trailer that goes with the tractor when you first get in touch.
Newer outfits are a big part of the local roster: 75 carriers registered in 2025 and 53 in 2024, by FMCSA’s count. If you started a one-truck operation recently and are now winding it down, keep your USDOT number handy; we will ask for it along with the VIN.
Local or long-haul
Trucks that stay inside Florida
Of the Palm Bay carriers on FMCSA’s census, 491 operate intrastate only, 188 run interstate, and 163 are private fleets hauling their own goods. For a truck that never left the state, a Florida title and registration are usually all the paperwork the sale needs, plus any service records you have kept.
Drivers based here split almost evenly: 1,638 work within 100 miles and 1,584 travel beyond that, per FMCSA’s carrier census. If your truck is out on a route away from Palm Bay right now, give us the address where it will be parked when the run ends and we will plan the collection there.
Among the 124 local carriers reporting mileage to FMCSA, the median truck covers 40,000 miles a year. Note the odometer reading when you send photos, so the figure we work from matches the dash.
What roadside checks show about Palm Bay’s fleet
FMCSA roadside inspection records for 173 Palm Bay trucks, checked between October 2024 and August 2026, put the median model year at 2016. Send us the year, make and model with the VIN, and we can match the truck to its records from there.
Trucks at least ten model years old made up 47.4 percent of that Palm Bay group, the FMCSA roadside inspection records show. Whatever the year on yours, the steps are the same: title in hand, registration, keys, and the place it is parked.
The biggest Palm Bay fleets on the FMCSA census run 28, 10 and 9 power units. If you manage a small fleet like these and want to sell several units at once, list each VIN and where each truck sits so the pickups can be grouped.
Mines south of the city
The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists Brisbane Pit, an industrial-mineral mine, 8.5 miles south of Palm Bay, and the Sunshine Mine sand and gravel operation 9.6 miles south. Dump trucks working pits like these can be collected at the site, so tell us the gate location and who on site can let us in.
Farther out, Corrigan Ranch Division, a sand and gravel operation, is 13.9 miles south, and Buck Hammock, an industrial-mineral mine, lies 16.9 miles north-west, by the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s listing. Keep any site paperwork you have for the truck together with the title; it helps us understand the work it did.
Construction, factories and the base
Manufacturing accounts for 4,660 of the 35,744 jobs located in Palm Bay in 2023, construction for 2,097, wholesale trade for 869 and transportation and warehousing for 457, according to the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts. Flatbeds and straight trucks from contractors and plants are all trucks we collect, from the yard where they are kept.
County Business Patterns from the Census Bureau show 314 construction establishments, and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics places Patrick Space Force Base 18.8 miles north of the city. If your truck is parked on a job site or a secured lot, arrange access ahead of time and tell us any gate rules.
Clearances, cattle ranches and nurseries
None of the 32 Palm Bay bridges in the National Bridge Inventory carries a load posting or sits below 14 feet. Give us the street address of the truck and note any tight turns or soft ground at the spot, so the right equipment arrives.
Brevard County had 584 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, with cattle, honey and potted flowering plants leading the list. Farm trucks used on ranches and nurseries in the county are welcome; have the title in the owner’s name and tell us which property it is on.
The questions we get asked in Palm Bay
- My dump truck sits at a sand pit south of Palm Bay; does it have to come into town first?Leave the dump truck at the pit: the Mine Safety and Health Administration lists Brisbane Pit 8.5 miles and the Sunshine Mine 9.6 miles south of the city, and we collect from sites like these. Tell us the gate and who can open it.
- My truck only ever ran inside Florida. What paperwork do I need?Most Palm Bay carriers, 491 by FMCSA’s carrier census, operate intrastate only. For a truck like that, have the Florida title, the registration and the keys ready, plus any service records you kept.