A crushed-stone quarry just up the road
Rainbow Park’s nearest working site is the 328 Pit, a crushed-stone quarry 1.5 miles north according to the Mine Safety and Health Administration. A dump truck or end-dump tractor that hauls aggregate from that gate is likely parked close to home between loads, and we can collect it from your driveway or a yard off the quarry road.
Before you call, photograph the bed, the hoist and the cab, and find the registration for the tractor and any trailer that goes with it. If the truck carries a quarry site sticker or a load log from the pit, keep it in the glovebox; it tells us the work the truck has done without a long conversation.
Up the Ocala bearing
Two mine gates fourteen and fifteen miles out
Fourteen miles to the north-east is Stavola NW Pit, another crushed-stone operation on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list, and Ocala Quarry, an industrial-mineral mine, lies only a little farther along that same bearing at 15.4 miles. Trucks that run between Rainbow Park and those two gates often finish the day in a yard nearer Ocala than here.
If your rig is kept at a contractor’s lot up that way, give us the street address and the name of whoever holds the gate key. We arrange collection where the truck stands, so you can sell it without bringing it back to town.
Southbound loads
Phosphate ground south of town
South of town, at 15.5 miles, the Mine Safety and Health Administration records Manko Co Sec 5 Mine/Phos as an industrial-mineral mine. With the quarries to the north, Rainbow Park has working mineral sites on both sides of it.
A truck that has served the phosphate site may have spent its working life on haul roads rather than highways. Tell us which mine it worked and send the VIN with your photos, and we will ask the rest of our questions from there.
Factory floors, freight and building crews
Manufacturing accounts for 54.6 percent of the 394 jobs located in Rainbow Park, by the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts for 2023. Box trucks, straight trucks and tractors that move goods in and out of plants are part of what we buy, whether they belong to one owner or a small shop.
Per the same LEHD figures, transportation and warehousing hold a 17.5 percent share of local employment, while construction holds 13.5 percent. Owner-operators with a flatbed, a dump truck or a delivery tractor in either line of work should have the title in their own name and the most recent service invoices on hand when they reach out.
Barns, cattle and nursery stock across the county
USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counted 3,329 farms in Marion County, with equine, cattle and foliage plants as the top listings. Livestock haulers, feed trucks and flatbeds that carry nursery plants all fit within what we purchase from Rainbow Park sellers.
Farm trucks are often parked behind a barn or out in a pasture lot. Tell us whether the ground there is firm enough for a tow vehicle and how wide the gate is, and send a photo of the plate so the registration can be matched to the title.
The Dunnellon counter for a missing certificate
In Florida the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles hands title work to county tax collector service centers and license plate agents, and Rainbow Park sellers have one of those within a short drive. The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles lists the closest one to Rainbow Park as the Marion County motor vehicle service center - Dunnellon, at 19995 SW 86th St., Unit #2, Dunnellon, 34431, some 7.1 miles away.
If the certificate is missing or still shows a lienholder who has since released it, start the replacement at that Dunnellon counter and keep the receipt. Let us know where the paperwork stands when you contact us so we can plan around it.
The questions we get asked in Rainbow Park
- My title has gone missing; which Marion County office near Rainbow Park can replace it?Dunnellon’s Marion County motor vehicle service center, 7.1 miles from Rainbow Park at 19995 SW 86th St., Unit #2, handles titles for the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles. Apply for the replacement at that Dunnellon desk and mention the pending duplicate when you first write to us.
- Do you buy livestock and nursery trucks from farms around here?Marion County’s 3,329 farms, counted in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, lead with equine, cattle and foliage plants, and the trucks that serve them are among those we buy. A horse van or nursery flatbed listing should come with the VIN and a set of pasture-side photos.