Pits and quarries toward Palm City and Canal Point
Palm City Mine, a sand and gravel operation the Mine Safety and Health Administration lists 9.4 miles south-west of Port Salerno, is the closest pit to town. A tandem dump or end-dump that loads there may well be parked at the pit gate or a contractor’s yard nearby when you reach us, so give us that address rather than your home one and we will collect from it.
Further out on the same bearing, MC320 Mine is another sand and gravel site, 15.3 miles away in the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s listing. If your truck has shuttled between both pits, send a few photos of the dump body, the hoist and the tailgate alongside the cab.
West toward the lake, the Mine Safety and Health Administration records 1412 Canal Point, an industrial-mineral mine 19.5 miles off, and Fort Pierce Mine, a crushed-stone quarry at 21 miles. Quarry tractors and belly-dump trailers from those sites are trucks we collect; have the title and current registration together before the call so the paperwork is settled first.
Palm Center tracks and Fort Pierce containers
South of town, PALM CENTER is a rail yard 17.2 miles away on the North American Rail Network kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Day cabs that run drayage from a yard like that may be parked in a shared lot; tell us who controls the lot and who can let us in.
Up the coast, the FORT PIERCE rail yard lies 21.3 miles north-west, and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics places the Fort Pierce, FL intermodal ramp at 22 miles in the same direction. For a tractor that has pulled containers off that ramp, send the VIN and the odometer reading first, then any service records you kept.
Contractors and shop floors in Port Salerno
In the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns, 229 construction firms are on the books for Martin County. Stake-bed trucks, box trucks and roll-off haulers that serve those firms are part of what we buy, and a crew truck kept at a jobsite can be collected right there once you share the site address.
Of the 3,466 jobs located in Port Salerno during 2023, the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts assign 174 to manufacturing and 164 to construction. A straight truck that delivers for a local shop or plant counts too; have the registration and the name on the title match before we talk, or tell us early if they do not.
Foliage, cattle and potted plants in Martin County
USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 588 farms in Martin County, with foliage plants, cattle and potted flowering plants at the top of the list. Reefer box trucks hauling nursery stock and livestock trailers pulled behind a tractor are both in scope, wherever on the farm they are kept.
Many farm trucks stay on the property between seasons. If yours is parked behind a greenhouse or out by a cattle pen, a pin on a map and a note about the gate are enough for us to plan the pickup without you being there.
How old the local trucks are, per roadside stops
Across 513 trucks inspected near Port Salerno between August 2024 and August 2026, FMCSA roadside inspection records show a median model year of 2021. By the same inspection records, 10.9 percent of those trucks were ten or more years old.
Whatever the model year, the same short list gets things moving: the title, the registration, any inspection reports from those roadside stops, and clear photos of the cab, frame and tires. If one of those is missing, say which, and we will work out the rest with you.
The questions we get asked in Port Salerno
- My dump trailer sits at Palm City Mine, south-west of Port Salerno; does it have to come to town first?Palm City Mine is 9.4 miles south-west of town and MC320 Mine is 15.3 miles out, both listed by the Mine Safety and Health Administration, and we collect from either. Let us know which pit and the name of whoever holds the gate key.
- I run a tractor out of the Fort Pierce intermodal ramp. Will you pick it up at that ramp?The Fort Pierce, FL ramp is 22 miles north-west of Port Salerno on the Bureau of Transportation Statistics list, and a tractor there can be picked up where it stands. Tell us which lot it is in and give us the VIN.
- Do you buy nursery or cattle trucks from Martin County farms?Foliage plants, cattle and potted flowering plants lead Martin County’s 588 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, and trucks from that work are ones we buy. Have the title and registration ready, plus photos of the body or trailer.