Sell your semi truck for cash in South Bay the easy and convenient way

The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists Star Quarries, a crushed-stone operation, just 0.6 miles south of South Bay. A dump truck or tractor that hauls rock out of that pit is often parked within sight of the quarry gate, so tell us whether it sits on the quarry property or at your own yard and who can let us in.

Farther afield, Garcia 833 Mine, a sand and gravel operation, lies 16.6 miles west and Five Stones Mine, LLC., another crushed-stone quarry, lies 19.9 miles north-east, both on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list. If your truck moves aggregate between those pits and job sites, send photos of the body, the frame and the tires, plus the VIN plate, and say which site it worked last.

According to the North American Rail Network kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, the CLEWISTON REFINERY rail yard is 12.5 miles west and the CANAL POINT yard is 12.8 miles north-east of town. A tractor that shuttles loads to either siding can be collected where it last dropped a trailer; give us the yard name and a phone number for whoever controls access.

East toward the coast, the Port of Palm Beach District is 15 miles away on the Bureau of Transportation Statistics’ port list. If your day cab has pulled loads to the docks there, keep the registration and any port access paperwork with the title, and include a clear photo of the odometer with the rest of your pictures.

FMCSA’s carrier census counts 101 active carriers based here, and 91 of them are registered as intrastate while 10 operate interstate. For most sellers that means a Florida-plated truck with a Florida title, so find the title first; if it has gone missing, the state’s title agency issues the replacement, and we can wait while you request one.

Sixteen of those carriers are private fleets that haul their own goods, per the same FMCSA census. The three largest local operations list 90, 20 and 15 power units in FMCSA’s records. If you are selling several units at once, send a list of VINs and where each one is parked so we can plan one visit instead of many.

Of the active carriers on FMCSA’s census, 64 haul general freight, 23 haul fresh produce, 20 carry farm supplies and 14 move logs, poles, beams or lumber. A reefer tractor, a flatbed or a log truck all fit what we collect, so tell us the body type and trailer setup when you first get in touch.

USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture records 1,368 farms in Palm Beach County, with foliage plants, potted flowering plants and equine operations at the top. Trucks that serve nurseries and horse farms are often kept on the farm itself; give us the farm address and a gate code and we will arrange the pickup there.

Driver records in FMCSA’s carrier census place 324 drivers within 100 miles of base and 93 beyond it. That points to trucks that come home most nights, so the likeliest pickup spot is your own yard or driveway in town.

Seventeen South Bay carriers report mileage to FMCSA, and their median truck covers 12,000 miles a year on that census. Have the current odometer reading and the most recent service invoices ready; they answer most of our questions before we ask them.

Between 2024-10-27 and 2026-08-22, FMCSA roadside inspection records covered 34 trucks from South Bay carriers, with a median model year of 2015. About 56 percent of those inspected trucks were ten or more years old in those same inspection records.

Whatever the model year, the paperwork we ask for is the same: the title in your name, current registration, and any inspection reports you kept. A copy of a recent roadside inspection sheet is useful too, since it lists the VIN and the unit as an officer saw it.

The Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts for 2023 show 1,003 jobs in South Bay, with 169 in agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting, 130 in construction and 99 in transportation and warehousing. Trucks tied to any of those three lines of work are ones we collect, from cane-field haulers to contractor dumps.

South Bay has 4 construction establishments on the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns, mostly small outfits whose trucks are titled to the business. If yours is one, have an officer of the company ready to sign, along with a copy of the registration.

• My tractor has stayed on Florida roads its whole life. Is that a problem for selling from South Bay?Ninety-one of the 101 active carriers in FMCSA’s census for South Bay are intrastate, so a truck that never left Florida is the usual case here. A Florida title in your name plus the current Florida registration covers the paperwork side.
• My truck hauls produce to the Port of Palm Beach. Do I need to bring it back to town?The Port of Palm Beach District is 15 miles east on the Bureau of Transportation Statistics’ list, and the truck can stay wherever it is parked. Tell us which dock or lot it is on near the port and who there can walk us to it.