Mines north-west and east of Rotonda
The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists Florida Shell & Fill Company LLC, an industrial-mineral mine, 5.9 miles north-west of Rotonda. Dump trucks and tractors that haul shell and fill out of a site that close are often parked at home between loads, so tell us the street address and whether the truck sits on a driveway or a lot.
Farther out, about 21 miles east, the Mine Safety and Health Administration records the Washington Loop Mine, a sand and gravel operation, and at 21.6 miles the DSF Bishop Mine, another industrial-mineral site. If your truck is still parked at one of those yards, give us the name of whoever can let us through the gate, and we arrange the collection with them rather than asking you to move it.
Freight, lowboys and lumber haulers registered in Rotonda
Rotonda has 24 active motor carriers in FMCSA’s carrier census. FMCSA’s census registers 20 of those for intrastate work and 4 for interstate, and counts 9 as private fleets hauling their own goods. Tell us which kind of operation your truck served and whether it carried interstate authority, and have the matching registration ready.
General freight is the cargo listed most often, by 10 of those carriers according to FMCSA’s census, followed by machinery and large objects at 3, logs, poles, beams and lumber at 2, and driveaway or towaway at 1. A lowboy tractor, a log truck and a box truck each sell the same way here: send the VIN, the registration and clear photos of the cab, frame and any trailer that goes with it.
Fleet sizes in the federal carrier census run from one operator with 83 power units and 55 drivers down to fleets of 6 units with 2 drivers and 4 units with 3 drivers. Selling one truck out of a larger fleet is fine; tell us the unit number you use for it so the paperwork lines up with the right title.
Drivers who stay inside a hundred miles of home
Among drivers working for Rotonda carriers, 68 stay within 100 miles and 16 go beyond, per the federal carrier census kept by FMCSA. Most of these trucks end the day close to home, which makes Rotonda driveways, shop lots and the county roads around them the usual collection points.
For the 7 carriers that report mileage, FMCSA’s census puts the median at 52,698 miles a truck each year. Have the current odometer reading ready when you contact us, along with the year, make and model; those details let us set up the rest of the conversation.
What a roadside stop on Rotonda trucks turned up for model year
Half of the 34 Rotonda-carrier trucks pulled aside for inspection from October 2024 through August 2026 were built in or after a 2019.5 median model year, per FMCSA roadside inspection records. Any model year is welcome; what matters to us is that the title and registration match the VIN on the door.
Just under a third of those 34 Rotonda trucks, 32.35 percent by FMCSA’s roadside inspection tally, carried a model year ten or more years back. If yours is one of them, keep any service records you have together and send copies with your photos, so the history travels alongside the truck.
Construction, farms and jobs in Rotonda
Rotonda had 625 jobs in 2023, the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts show, and 71 of them, 11.4 percent, were in construction. Builders here run 33 construction establishments on the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns count. A contractor’s dump truck, flatbed or service body truck can be sold from the job yard or the owner’s home; tell us which.
Across Charlotte County, USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 263 farms, with cattle, equine operations and foliage plants at the top of the list. A stock truck or a box truck that served a ranch or nursery is a commercial truck we buy, and we come out to the property to collect it.
Papers and pictures to gather before a Charlotte County collection
Keep the title in the name of the person or company selling, plus the current registration and a photo ID. If the title is lost, Florida’s title agency issues duplicates, and starting that request early keeps the sale moving once you decide to go ahead.
Photos help us most when they show the whole truck: both sides of the cab, the dash with the odometer, the frame rails, and any trailer or body attached. Send them with the VIN and the address in Rotonda or elsewhere in Charlotte County where the truck is parked.
The questions we get asked in Rotonda
- My dump truck is parked near the shell and fill mine outside Rotonda. Must I haul it off the shell pit and into Rotonda myself?Florida Shell & Fill Company LLC is 5.9 miles north-west of Rotonda on Mine Safety and Health Administration records, and we collect from there or from any yard near it. Name whoever holds the key to the mine yard gate and we set the collection up with that person.
- Do you buy trucks from small fleets in Rotonda?Rotonda’s 24 active carriers in FMCSA’s census include fleets of 6 and 4 power units, and a truck from a fleet that size is one we buy. Send the unit’s VIN and title details for each truck you want to sell.
- My truck hauled lumber and poles. Would you buy a log truck from Rotonda?Two Rotonda carriers list logs, poles, beams and lumber as cargo in FMCSA’s carrier census, and log trucks and the tractors that pull pole trailers are on our list. Send photos that include the bunks or trailer along with the cab.
- Somewhere between the shop and the house, the title to my Charlotte County dump truck vanished; where does a duplicate come from?A Charlotte County truck is titled in Florida, so a duplicate comes from Florida’s title agency. Begin that request and contact us at the same time with the VIN and registration, so the rest of the sale is ready when the duplicate arrives.