The port next door
Port Tampa Bay land under two miles away
Just 1.8 miles north-east of Progress Village, the Tampa Port Authority’s docks are on the Bureau of Transportation Statistics map of ports. A tractor that shuttles boxes or bulk loads off those docks often spends its nights at a home here, so tell us whether yours is at the house, in a port-side lot or at a yard, and we plan the collection for that spot.
Hooker’s Point Container Terminal, a rail intermodal ramp 4.6 miles to the north-west on Bureau of Transportation Statistics records, is the other half of that container traffic. If your day cab has pulled chassis between the terminal and the ramp, send the VIN, the registration and clear photos of the cab, frame and fifth wheel, and we can start from those.
A second intermodal ramp, listed as Tampa, FL, lies 5.3 miles north in Bureau of Transportation Statistics records. Sellers whose truck is parked inside a gated ramp or terminal lot should give us the name of whoever controls the gate, so the pickup is arranged with them rather than at the fence.
Tank work along the channel west of town
Two petroleum product terminals named Tampa appear in Energy Information Administration listings, one 3.2 miles north-west of Progress Village and one 3.3 miles west. Tractors and straight trucks that pull fuel from those racks are part of what we buy; keep the tank inspection and service records with the title so they come to us together.
West of the neighbourhood by 3.2 miles, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics records the Kinder Morgan liquid bulk terminal. If your rig has served it, say which terminals it called at when you first contact us, and include photos of the trailer coupling and the tires along with the cab.
Hazmat haulers sometimes park a tank rig away from home between loads. Wherever it sits within these few miles of terminals, you do not need to move it; give us the address and a phone number for whoever can let us reach it.
Drayage between the channel and the EAST TAMPA tracks
According to the North American Rail Network, kept by the Federal Railroad Administration with the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, the EAST TAMPA rail yard lies 1.8 miles south-west of Progress Village. Drayage trucks that work a rail yard this close often stay local, so we usually collect them right in the community.
PORT SUTTON, a further yard 3.2 miles to the north-west in that same federal rail network, ties the tracks to the channel. If your truck has run between those yards and the docks, have the title in your name and the current registration in hand; with those two papers ready the sale moves without back-and-forth.
Box trucks for the village’s factory and warehouse trades
Factory floors supplied 812 positions here in 2023, which the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts put at 30.8 percent of the village’s 2,635 local jobs. Box trucks and tractors that move goods for plants often belong to owner-operators living nearby; if yours does, tell us whether it is parked at the plant or at home.
Wholesale trade adds 228 jobs and transportation and warehousing 166, the LEHD figures for 2023 show, with construction at 61. Whatever trade your truck has served, a description of the work it did plus photos of the body or bed lets us ask the right questions from the first call.
Cattle, nurseries and aquatic plants nearby
USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 1,992 farms in Hillsborough County, with aquatic plants, cattle and transplants at the top of the list. Livestock haulers, nursery box trucks and flatbeds that carry transplants fall within what we purchase.
If a farm truck sits on rural land somewhere in the county rather than in Progress Village, send us the property address and any gate instructions. Keep the registration with the title, even for a truck that has only worked the farm, since we will ask for both.
The questions we get asked in Progress Village
- My tractor sits in a lot by the Tampa docks. Can you pick it up from that waterfront lot instead of my house?The Tampa Port Authority is 1.8 miles from Progress Village on Bureau of Transportation Statistics records, and we collect from port-side lots as readily as from a driveway. Give us the lot’s address and who manages it.
- I drove a fuel truck out of the Tampa terminals. Which papers do you want from me for it?Energy Information Administration listings place two petroleum product terminals 3.2 and 3.3 miles from here, and for trucks that served them we ask for the title, the registration and any tank inspection or service records you kept.
- Do you buy trucks that worked Hillsborough County farms?Cattle, aquatic plants and transplants lead the 1,992 farms USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts in the county, and the livestock, nursery and flatbed trucks that serve them are part of what we buy.