Inlet employment
A small job base in a coastal town
Ponce Inlet’s employers filled 693 positions in 2023, according to the LEHD job counts (LODES). If your truck is one of the service trucks, box trucks or pickups that cross from the mainland for that work, tell us which kind it is when you first get in touch.
Say where in town the truck is parked and whether a tow rig has room to turn around there. A driveway off a residential street and a marina lot near the inlet call for different plans on collection day, and knowing which one it is lets us send the right equipment.
Southbound rails
Freight tracks just below Ponce Inlet at New Smyrna Beach
About 5.5 miles south of town, the North American Rail Network kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics shows a rail yard at New Smyrna Beach. Day cabs and straight trucks that shuttle freight to and from a yard like that are part of what we buy along this stretch of coast.
If your tractor or flatbed is sitting near the New Smyrna Beach yard rather than at your home in Ponce Inlet, leave it there. Give us the street address, the name of whoever controls the gate, and the hours it can be reached, and the pickup gets planned around that spot instead of your house.
Cut greens, foliage plants and cattle in Volusia County
Volusia County holds 1,374 farms according to USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, and its leading products there are cut flowers and cultivated greens, foliage plants, and cattle. Refrigerated box trucks for cut greens, enclosed straight trucks for potted foliage and stock trailers behind a pickup or tractor are the kinds of rigs that work that list.
If your truck has been hauling greens or plants for a Volusia County grower, mention the body type and any reefer unit on it, with the unit’s make and hour reading if you have them. For a cattle hauler, tell us whether the trailer is part of the sale or stays with you.
Title and records before we come out
The title is the one document every sale here needs. Find it, check that the name on it matches yours, and note any lienholder printed on the front. A lost one is replaced through the state’s title agency, so start that request before you call us rather than after.
Next to the title, set out the current registration and any service invoices or inspection sheets kept in the cab. Those papers, plus the VIN and the odometer reading, answer most of the questions we would otherwise have to ask one at a time.
Camera roll
Pictures that show the truck as it sits
Take photos in daylight from all four corners of the truck, plus the cab interior, the dash with the key on, the frame rails and the tires. A clear set lets us see the same truck you are describing from Ponce Inlet.
Add a shot of the data plate on the door jamb and one of any body or trailer that goes with the sale. If the truck is in a garage or under a carport, include a picture of the way in as well.
The questions we get asked in Ponce Inlet
- Our flatbed stays parked by the New Smyrna Beach yard, not at the house in Ponce Inlet. Should I bring it up to town for the collection?The New Smyrna Beach yard is about 5.5 miles south of town on the North American Rail Network, and we collect from where the truck sits. Send the address and a gate contact and leave it in place.
- I haul cut greens for a Volusia County grower. Is a refrigerated straight truck something you buy?Cut flowers and cultivated greens lead Volusia County’s farm products in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, and reefer box trucks that carry them are on our list. Tell us the body length and the reefer unit’s make.