Site crews and greenhouses
Building crews and growers in Samsula-Spruce Creek
Construction accounts for 177 of the 769 jobs counted here in 2023, about 23 percent, according to the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts. Dump trucks, flatbeds and service bodies that go out to job sites from Samsula-Spruce Creek are trucks we buy, and many of them will be parked at a yard or a site rather than at home. Tell us which one, and who holds the key.
Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting make up 89 of those jobs, or 11.6 percent, in the same LEHD figures from the Census Bureau. A box truck or straight truck that runs plants and greens off a nursery here can be collected from the farm itself. Have the title in the name on the registration, and a few clear photos of the cab, the box and the plate.
Ferns to cattle
Cut greens, foliage and cattle across the county
USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 1,374 farms in Volusia County, with cut flowers and cultivated greens, foliage plants and cattle at the top of its list. Reefer box trucks from the fern sheds, nursery haulers and livestock trailers’ tractors are all on the list of what we purchase.
If a truck has sat at the back of a grower’s property between seasons, that is fine; we come out to the field road or barn where it is. Before we arrive, find the title, note the VIN from the door jamb, and say whether a gate or a pasture lies between the road and the truck.
A cattle operation often keeps its paperwork in a farm office rather than the cab. Gather the title, the current registration and any service invoices in one folder, so the person meeting us can hand them over without a search.
Two FRA-listed yards
Trucks kept by the New Smyrna Beach or Sanford yards
Eastward toward the coast, the New Smyrna Beach rail yard lies 8.9 miles from Samsula-Spruce Creek on the North American Rail Network that the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics maintain. A tractor or straight truck that has shuttled freight to and from that yard can stay where it is parked; send us the address and a contact for the lot.
Out to the south-west, the North American Rail Network lists the Sanford yard 21.7 miles away. A truck kept near Sanford can stay there while its owner lives in Samsula-Spruce Creek. We arrange the collection in Sanford and handle the paperwork with you here.
Liquid terminal hauls
Volusia tank tractors and the Transflo CSXT terminal
Transflo CSXT, a liquid bulk terminal, is 21.9 miles south-west of town by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Day cabs that have pulled tank trailers between that terminal and customers in Volusia County are trucks we purchase, with or without the trailer.
Tell us whether the trailer goes with the tractor or stays with you, and send photos of both. If the tractor carried terminal access paperwork or inspection reports, include copies; they give us the truck’s working history in a few pages.
Folder for the pickup
What a Samsula-Spruce Creek seller should have to hand
Whether the truck worked a building site, a fern shed or the road to Sanford, the same short list applies: the title, the registration, the VIN and the odometer reading, plus photos of the cab, the frame, the tires and the plate. A folder holding those leaves little for us to ask on the day we come to Samsula-Spruce Creek.
If the title has been lost, say so at the start rather than at the pickup. We will tell you what a replacement needs before anything else is arranged, so the sale is not held up on the day.
The questions we get asked in Samsula-Spruce Creek
- Can you pick up my dump truck from the build site where it sits, rather than from my Samsula-Spruce Creek driveway?Construction makes up 177 of the 769 local jobs in the Census Bureau’s 2023 LEHD job counts; we collect from the site itself. Pass along the site address and the foreman who can open it for the collection.
- Can you collect a truck stored in a barn on a Volusia County fern or cattle farm?USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture lists 1,374 Volusia County farms, and a barn on any of them is a place we collect from. Tell us the route to the barn and whether the track in is gravel, sand or pasture.
- My tractor is kept near the Sanford rail yard. Must it come back to Samsula-Spruce Creek before you collect it?Sanford’s yard sits 21.7 miles south-west on the North American Rail Network, and the truck can stay right there. Name the lot by the Sanford yard and the person holding its key, and the pickup is arranged there.