Woods to mill
Log and lumber trucks around Perry
Of the 115 active motor carriers FMCSA’s carrier census places in Perry, 46 list logs, poles, beams or lumber as cargo they haul. If your tractor has pulled a log trailer or a pole trailer out of the Taylor County woods, tell us whether the trailer is part of the sale or stays with you, and send a photo of each.
Lumber and timber outfits here often keep the truck parked at a woodyard or at the owner’s home rather than in a shop. Send us the street address or the nearest crossroads, and say whether a tow rig can reach it on a dirt track after rain.
Have the Florida title in your name and the current registration ready before pickup; if a lender is still shown on the title, tell us at the first call so the lien release can be arranged alongside the paperwork.
Cabbage Grove quarry and the Perry rail yard
The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists SRM Materials Cabbage Grove, a crushed-stone quarry, 0.9 miles north of town, and Perry Quarry, another crushed-stone operation, 22.7 miles to the west. Dump trucks and end-dump tractors that have hauled rock from either pit are trucks we buy; a note of which site it worked helps us ask the right questions.
South-east of the city centre, about 4.1 miles out, the North American Rail Network maintained by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics shows the PERRY rail yard. If your truck sits near the tracks or on a yard lot, give us the name of whoever controls the gate so collection can be set up with them.
For any truck parked at a quarry or a rail site, send photos of the cab, the frame, the tires and the VIN plate with your first message.
Private fleets and short radius hauling in Taylor County
Local work leads the register: FMCSA’s carrier census counts 89 Perry carriers running intrastate and 25 authorised for interstate hauling, with 66 of the total operating as private fleets that move their own goods. A private-fleet truck sold by a farm or a sawmill business needs the same title and registration as any other, signed by whoever is named on them.
The three biggest local fleets in that census field 17, 16 and 15 power units. If you are retiring several trucks from a fleet of that size, list each VIN in one message and we will plan the pickups as a group.
Within 100 miles is where 163 of the drivers tied to Perry carriers work, against 103 who go beyond that radius, per FMCSA’s carrier census. Across the 21 carriers reporting it, the same census puts median annual miles per truck at 39,006; have your odometer reading handy when you contact us.
A 2019 median among Perry trucks stopped for inspection
Checks logged from 12 September 2024 through 24 August 2026 in FMCSA roadside inspection records take in 108 Perry-based trucks, whose median model year is 2019. Those FMCSA roadside inspection records also show 34.3 percent of the trucks inspected were ten or more model years old.
Whatever the model year on your registration, send it along with the make, the engine and any service records you keep. A folder of oil-change slips or shop invoices lets us match the truck to its paperwork without a second visit.
Twenty-six bridges between your truck and the highway
The National Bridge Inventory kept by the Federal Highway Administration records 26 bridges in the Perry area, 3 of them posted with load limits and none with clearance under 14 feet. A tall tractor or a loaded dump body can leave town without a low-clearance detour.
Where a truck is parked beyond one of the posted bridges, say so when you book; we route the tow rig around the posted spans and the pickup goes ahead at your address.
Cattle, hogs and construction work in Taylor County
Taylor County holds 212 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, with cattle, hogs and horses as the leading lines. Livestock haulers, cattle-trailer tractors and farm flatbeds parked on a pasture can be collected right where they stand; tell us which gate to use.
County Business Patterns from the Census Bureau records 20 construction establishments in the area, and the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts put 3,198 jobs in Perry for 2023, including 90 in manufacturing and 51 in agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting. Contractors selling a dump truck, a flatbed or a service body truck should have the title, registration and a set of photos ready for the first call.
The questions we get asked in Perry
- Will you fetch a log rig sitting at a woodyard outside Perry, or must I haul it in?On FMCSA’s carrier census, 46 of 115 local carriers haul logs, poles, beams or lumber, and we collect from woodyards and home lots alike. Send the location or nearest crossroads and a note on the access road.
- Which details help when selling a dump truck that ran rock out of Cabbage Grove?The Mine Safety and Health Administration places SRM Materials Cabbage Grove 0.9 miles north of town; for a truck that worked there, send the VIN, the odometer reading, photos of the dump body and cab, and the Florida title details.
- Are there low bridges that would block a tall truck leaving Perry?None of the 26 Perry-area bridges in the National Bridge Inventory has clearance under 14 feet, though 3 carry posted load limits, so tell us if the truck sits beyond one of them.
- Can I sell a truck from a farm’s private fleet?Private fleets account for 66 of Perry’s 115 active carriers on FMCSA’s carrier census, and their trucks sell the same way: the person or business named on the title signs it over, with the registration alongside.