Carriers based in the city
FMCSA’s carrier census shows 1,919 active carriers based in the city, and 1,349 of them are registered for intrastate work against 566 cleared to cross state lines. If your truck has stayed inside Florida, the Florida title and current registration are the two papers to find before you call us.
Of those carriers, 347 operate private fleets according to the same FMCSA census, hauling their own goods rather than freight for hire. A tractor or straight truck that has carried a company’s own stock still sells the same way: send the VIN, a few photos of the cab and chassis, and the name on the title.
New registrations keep arriving, with FMCSA recording 179 new carriers in the city in 2025 and 153 in 2024. If you started a one-truck operation in the last couple of years and are winding it down, have the title and any lien release ready, since a financed first truck often still carries the lender’s name.
General freight, car haulers and produce loads
General freight is the cargo listed by 1,222 local carriers in FMCSA’s census, which puts dry vans and box trucks at the centre of what works this city. For a van or box truck, photos of the box interior, the liftgate if it has one, and the doors help us see the whole unit.
Car hauling turns up on 277 Port St. Lucie carrier registrations under FMCSA’s motor vehicles cargo class. If you are selling a car-hauler tractor with its trailer, tell us whether they go together or separately, and send the trailer’s own title or registration alongside the truck’s.
Fresh produce appears on 208 registrations and refrigerated food on 193, as FMCSA’s carrier census records them for the city. A reefer seller should note the refrigeration unit’s make and its hour meter reading along with the truck’s odometer, and include the trailer paperwork if the reefer box is part of the sale.
Quarries and pits
Stone and sand around St. Lucie County
The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists the Fort Pierce Mine, a crushed-stone quarry, 6.8 miles west of the city, and the Capron Trails Mine, another crushed-stone quarry, 17.8 miles north. Dump trucks that have hauled from either site can be collected where they are parked; give us the yard address and a contact who can let us in.
To the south, MSHA records the Palm City Mine sand and gravel operation at 14.9 miles and the MC320 Mine at 17 miles, with the 1412 Canal Point industrial-mineral mine 15 miles south-west. If your dump truck or tri-axle is parked at a pit gate rather than at home, tell us which site and whether the operator wants notice of a visit.
Construction employs 3,424 people in Port St. Lucie in the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts for 2023, 9.2 percent of the city’s 37,258 jobs. County Business Patterns from the Census Bureau counts 829 construction establishments, so a mixer, dump or flatbed coming off a building contract here is a familiar sale for us; have the title in the name of the business that will sign for it.
The Fort Pierce rail yards and intermodal ramp
Two rail yards sit about 11 miles north-east of the city on the North American Rail Network kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics: FORT PIERCE at 11.2 miles and FT PIERCE at 11.3. A day cab that has shuttled between those yards and local customers can be picked up at your lot or the yard; tell us which.
The Bureau of Transportation Statistics also lists the Fort Pierce, FL rail intermodal ramp 11.7 miles north of Port St. Lucie. If your tractor has been pulling containers off that ramp, send the VIN and the odometer reading first, and say whether a chassis or container goes with it or stays with the owner.
Wholesale trade accounts for 1,201 jobs and transportation and warehousing for 887 in the Census Bureau’s LEHD counts for 2023, with manufacturing at 716. Box trucks and tractors working those distribution and plant jobs usually sit at a business address, so name the person on site who holds the keys.
How far trucks run
Local routes and long hauls
FMCSA’s census shows 2,023 drivers for local carriers working within 100 miles of base and 3,671 driving beyond that range. If your truck is out on a long run when you decide to sell, tell us where it will be parked when it comes off the road; we collect there rather than asking you to bring it home.
The median truck among 395 reporting Port St. Lucie carriers logged 42,284 miles a year, by the mileage those carriers filed with FMCSA. Note your own odometer reading in your first message, since it is one of the first things we ask for along with the VIN.
The biggest local fleets in the FMCSA census run 25 power units with 27 drivers, 25 power units with 16 drivers, and 16 power units with 9 drivers. If you manage a fleet of that size and are retiring several units at once, send a list of VINs and where each is parked, and we can plan the collection as one job.
Fleet age and farms
Model years and county farm trucks
FMCSA roadside inspection records for 773 trucks inspected between August 2024 and August 2026 give a median model year of 2017, with 43.47 percent of those trucks ten or more model years old. Whatever the year of yours, the title, the registration and any service records you have kept are what we ask to see.
USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 404 farms in St. Lucie County, with cattle, honey and hogs as the leading products. A livestock hauler, grain truck or farm flatbed parked on a ranch can be collected from the property; tell us how the gate and the ground are for a tow or a driver.
The questions we get asked in Port St. Lucie
- My dump truck sits at a pit near Palm City; will you collect it there?We will: the Mine Safety and Health Administration places the Palm City Mine 14.9 miles south of the city, and we pick up from the site once you give us the address and someone who can open the gate.
- I only ran my truck inside Florida; is the paperwork any different?It stays the same, and in FMCSA’s census 1,349 of the 1,919 local carriers are registered for intrastate work; bring the Florida title, the registration and your ID.
- Can you collect a reefer that worked produce loads out of Fort Pierce?Reefer tractors and straight trucks are on our list, and FMCSA’s census shows 208 local carriers hauling fresh produce; send the reefer unit’s hours and the truck’s odometer with your photos.