Pits below the Shores
Sand plants just below town
Five miles below Silver Springs Shores East, the Weirsdale Sand Plant digs sand and gravel, as Mine Safety and Health Administration records show. Tandem dump trucks and end-dump tractors that cycle in and out of a plant like that often sit at home between loads, so tell us the street address where yours parks and we will arrange collection there.
Further out, Lisbon Sand lies 14 miles to the south-east and the Okahumpka industrial-mineral mine 21.5 miles south, both on Mine Safety and Health Administration records. If your truck hauled from either site, note that when you contact us and send photos of the bed, the hoist, the cab and the VIN plate so we can see the whole truck from the start.
Limestone toward the Gulf side
Quarry stone and a cement plant toward Sumterville
NORTH MINE, a crushed-stone quarry, is 13.9 miles west of Silver Springs Shores East according to the Mine Safety and Health Administration, and the Stavola NW Pit, another stone quarry, is 22.6 miles to the north-west. Rock trucks, belly-dump trailers and the tractors that pull them work that ground; keep the registration and any scale tickets or service logs with the truck so its history travels with it.
Down at Sumterville, 23.2 miles south-west, the Mine Safety and Health Administration places a cement plant. Bulk pneumatic trailers and mixer trucks tied to cement work are part of what we purchase, and a mixer that sits at a contractor’s yard rather than at home is fine; give us the yard’s location and a contact who can open the gate.
Freight cars and trucks meeting south-west of town
Wildwood’s rail yard appears in the North American Rail Network, kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, at 15.7 miles south-west of Silver Springs Shores East. Day cabs that shuttle trailers to and from a yard like that tend to rack up short local runs, and we buy those tractors as readily as long-haul sleepers.
If your tractor worked the Wildwood yard, a copy of the registration and a clear photo of the odometer and the door-jamb sticker help us identify it. Tell us whether the truck can be reached by a tow rig where it sits, and we will plan the pickup around that.
Shores contractors
Contractors’ trucks around the Shores
Builders with a base in the Shores number 27 construction establishments, a figure drawn from the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns, and their flatbeds come up for sale here too. Flatbeds, stake-bed trucks, small dumps and service bodies that belong to outfits like these are the kind of working truck we collect from owners here.
A contractor selling a truck from a job site or a shop lot can do that without moving it into town first. Have the title, the registration and a list of any body equipment, such as a crane, a liftgate or a toolbox, ready to share so the description matches the truck.
Barns, pasture, nurseries
Farm trucks among horse barns and cattle pasture
Around Silver Springs Shores East the farms lean toward horses, cattle and foliage plants; USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture names those as the leading groups among Marion County’s 3,329 farms. Horse vans, cattle haulers and straight trucks used for hay and feed all fit what we buy.
Foliage growers run box trucks and reefer-equipped straight trucks to move plants, and we take those as well. A farm truck parked in a barn or pasture can be collected there; just tell us how a truck can get to it and send a few photos taken in daylight.
Summerfield’s tag and title desk
In Florida, the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles issues titles, and residents reach it through county tax collector service centers and license plate agents. The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles lists the Marion County motor vehicle service center - Summerfield at 17860 SE 109th Ave., Suite #602, Summerfield, 34491, about 8 miles from Silver Springs Shores East.
If the title is missing or still shows a lienholder, start at that Summerfield center before you sell, and bring the registration and your ID. Once the clean title is in your hands, you sign it over to us at pickup.
The questions we get asked in Silver Springs Shores East
- Will you take a dump truck that hauls sand out of Weirsdale?The Weirsdale Sand Plant sits five miles south of town on Mine Safety and Health Administration records, and dump trucks working sand and gravel runs like that are trucks we buy. A VIN and a handful of photos of yours get things moving.
- Where would a Shores owner go if the truck’s Florida title has gone astray?The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles lists the Marion County motor vehicle service center - Summerfield, 17860 SE 109th Ave., Suite #602, about 8 miles away, as the nearby office for titles.
- Will you collect a farm truck from a horse property?Marion County’s 3,329 farms lean toward equine and cattle operations in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, and we collect trucks from barns, pastures and farm yards across that ground.
- Could you collect a day cab that shuttles trailers at the Wildwood yard?Wildwood’s yard is 15.7 miles south-west on the North American Rail Network, and we can arrange collection wherever the tractor is parked, at the yard or at home, once we know the address.