Freight, flatbeds and car haulers out of Palm Harbor
Of the 105 active motor carriers FMCSA’s carrier census places in Palm Harbor, 46 list general freight among their loads. If your box truck or tractor has been doing that kind of mixed hauling around north Pinellas, have the title and current registration in hand before you contact us, and the rest of the sale follows from those two papers.
Machinery and large objects appear on 20 Palm Harbor carrier registrations, motor vehicles on 17 and logs, poles, beams and lumber on 15, per the same FMCSA census. For a lowboy, a car hauler or a flatbed set up for lumber, photograph the trailer deck, the tie-down points and the coupling as well as the cab, so we see the whole unit you are selling.
Short-haul work around north Pinellas
Of those registered carriers, the federal census counts 81 that operate intrastate and 22 that cross state lines, with 43 running as private fleets for their own goods. A truck that never left Florida usually has its paperwork through the state’s title agency only, so a Florida title in the owner’s name is what we ask to see.
Driver records filed with FMCSA show 266 drivers for Palm Harbor carriers working within 100 miles of base and 80 going farther. Among the 15 carriers reporting annual mileage to that census, the median sits at 20,000 miles per truck. Tell us the odometer reading and VIN at the start; those two numbers let us identify the exact truck before anything else is asked.
What Pinellas inspectors recorded
Roadside inspection records kept by FMCSA cover 27 trucks from Palm Harbor carriers inspected between September 2024 and July 2026, with a median model year of 2020. Those FMCSA inspection records also show a third of the trucks at 10 or more years old. Whatever the year on yours, include it with the make and model when you first write to us.
One Palm Harbor operation runs 31 power units with 41 drivers, and two others list 7 and 6 power units, according to FMCSA’s carrier census. If you are selling several trucks from a small fleet at once, send a list with each VIN and where each one is parked, and we will plan the collections together.
Bay terminals
Fuel, cement and rail across Tampa Bay
Southeast of town, the Energy Information Administration lists the Port Tampa Blending Terminal about 20 miles away and the Tampa Terminal at roughly 20.4 miles, both petroleum product terminals. If your tanker or fuel truck loaded at either one, keep any terminal loading records you have with the title; they tell us what the truck has carried.
Tampa Cement Grinding Plant, about 21.8 miles southeast, is on file with the Mine Safety and Health Administration. A mixer or bulk hauler that ran cement from there to Pinellas jobsites can be collected wherever it sits now, whether that is a yard near the plant or a driveway in Palm Harbor.
On the North American Rail Network, the Port Tampa yard lies about 21.1 miles southeast and the St Petersburg yard about 21.3 miles south. The Bureau of Transportation Statistics adds the roll-on/roll-off berths at Hooker’s Point, near 22.3 miles out. For a drayage tractor working those yards and berths, give us the exact address where it is kept and a contact who can open the gate.
Construction and trade in Palm Harbor
The Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts for 2023 put 18,127 jobs in Palm Harbor, with construction holding 1,144 of them, or 6.3 percent. Dump trucks, stake beds and flatbeds from that work can be picked up at the jobsite or the contractor’s yard; tell us which, and whether a loaded trailer is still attached.
Around Palm Harbor, the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns tallies 192 construction establishments. Manufacturing accounts for 526 jobs and wholesale trade for 401 in the LEHD figures, while transportation and warehousing holds 139. Delivery trucks from a wholesale or manufacturing business are titled to the company, so have the person authorised to sign for it ready when we arrange the sale.
Nurseries, honey and cattle in Pinellas
USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 115 farms in Pinellas County, with potted flowering plants, honey and cattle at the top of the list. A nursery box truck or a livestock hauler from one of those operations can be sold from the farm itself; we come to it.
Farm trucks are sometimes titled in a family member’s name or an old business name. Check that the name on the Florida title matches the person signing, and if the title has gone missing, the state’s title agency in Pinellas County issues a duplicate before the sale.
The questions we get asked in Palm Harbor
- My truck sits near the Pinellas Park reserve center; will you pick it up from that spot?The Bureau of Transportation Statistics places Pinellas Park AFRC about 16.8 miles south of Palm Harbor, and we come to the truck there; tell us whose lot it is on and who can let us in.
- Should I move my tractor over to the Tampa side first?There is no need: the Tampa fuel terminals sit about 20 miles southeast by the Energy Information Administration’s listing, but you can leave the tractor wherever it is now, in Palm Harbor or across the bay.
- I registered my trucking company recently. Can I still sell one of its trucks?FMCSA’s carrier census shows 8 new Palm Harbor carriers registered in 2024 and 7 in 2025, and a newer company sells the same way: the title in the company’s name and an officer who can sign.