We buy trucks in Palm Beach Shores

The Port of Palm Beach appears three times across the layers in this file, and all three give a different town. The Ro/Ro layer says Riviera Beach, which the research records as the correct one. The principal-port layer says Belle Glade, 10.65 mi inland — the worst entry in its table. The petroleum-port layer, which is the row filed here, says Palm Beach Shores at 1.30 mi.

So this page is the third answer to a question that already had a right one. It is also the closest of the three by some distance, which is the reason it is worth stating rather than quietly correcting.

And the tangle goes one step further: Riviera Beach also sits in the file as a place in its own right, holding an unnamed liquid-bulk terminal row 1.5 mi away. The list therefore carries the right town and the wrong town as two separate entries, with the port attached to the wrong one.

So this is a shape rather than a one-off. Three ports before it had their two layers disagree with each other and with the Ro/Ro answer: Port Everglades, PortMiami and the Port of San Francisco.

What that means practically is that a truck working this port can carry paperwork naming any of three towns, none of them wrong on its own terms, and a search matching on the town alone will miss it. So we read the coordinate first and the town second.

For a seller it is a footnote. For anyone trying to find this page it is the reason it exists at all.

Which brings the layer itself back into it, because the row filed here is a petroleum port rather than a general cargo one. That points at liquid bulk: fuel and asphalt moving off the terminal by road.

A tanker leads a different life from a tipper. Fewer, longer stops, a pump and a hose system that is part of the vehicle, and inspection and certification history that a dry truck simply does not have. If you have that paperwork, it is worth sending with the photographs.

Alongside it Palm Beach County still runs the ordinary mix: day cabs, flatbeds, box trucks, dump trucks capped at 70,000 lb where a combination gets 80,000 lb, and the pickups behind a crew.

So take the paperwork in order. We need a title unless the truck is old enough that it never had one; a lost title has a counter replacement, and where none exists there is a bonded route.

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

And where an insurer has been involved, Florida brands salvage at 80% of the cost to replace the vehicle with one of like kind and quality. The percentage is not the finding — the base is. Replacement cost is a different number from the retail and market-value bases other states use, so a figure carried in from elsewhere does not transfer.

Fla. Stat. § 319.30(3)(a) and § 320.0609(1)(a). Information, not legal advice.

Those are the seller’s paperwork. The load rule is the driver’s, and it names a tanker explicitly.

Florida allows 80,000 lb gross including all enforcement tolerances and 20,000 lb on a single axle, and caps a single-unit vehicle used as a dump truck, mixer, waste vehicle or fuel tanker at 70,000 lb. The divisible-load permit adds ten per cent off the interstate system only and does not reach those same single-unit vehicles.

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

All of it is iron we buy across Palm Beach County. Tankers and fuel bodies off the terminal, held to 70,000 lb as single units where a combination gets 80,000 lb, day cabs and road tractors, flatbeds, box trucks, rollbacks, service bodies and the pickups that go with a crew — the same across the bridge at Riviera Beach and down through West Palm Beach.

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.
• My paperwork says Riviera Beach, not this town. Which is right?Both are, in their own layer. The Port of Palm Beach resolves to three different towns across this file — Riviera Beach, Belle Glade at 10.65 mi and here at 1.30 mi. We read the coordinate before the town field, so it makes no difference to us.
• 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 fuel contract off the terminal 1.30 mi from here that ended and left one tanker standing between here and Riviera Beach 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.