Twelve miles up the coast
Ro-ro cargo and the Palm Beach Terminal ramp
Roughly twelve and a half miles north of town, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics places the Port of Palm Beach - Palm Beach Terminal, a roll-on/roll-off berth where wheeled freight crosses the dock under its own power. A tractor that has shuttled trailers through that gate may be sitting in a yard near the port when you reach out; give us the street address and the name of whoever controls the lot, and the collection gets arranged around their hours.
Sharing that same 12.4-mile distance, Palm Beach Terminal also appears in the Bureau of Transportation Statistics files as a rail intermodal ramp, where boxes move between railcars and chassis. If your day cab pulled containers off that ramp, send the VIN, a clear photo of the plate on the door jamb, and a shot of the fifth wheel before anything else.
The North American Rail Network, kept by the Federal Railroad Administration with the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, records a separate Port of Palm Beach rail yard at 12.3 miles. Drivers who split shifts between the yard and the berth often keep logs or gate receipts in the cab; leave them there, as they help us place the truck’s working history.
North on the mainland
West Palm Beach rails and the fuel terminal
Under ten miles north, at 9.8 by the North American Rail Network’s measure, sits the WEST PALM BEACH rail yard. A straight truck or tractor on transload work there can stay parked wherever it is now; we collect it at that spot, and it never has to come over to the island.
A petroleum product terminal also named WEST PALM BEACH lies 12.2 miles north, according to the Energy Information Administration. Tank trucks that loaded fuel at that rack usually carry placard and inspection paperwork; gather those pages with the registration and photograph the tank’s data plate.
If you once drove those fuel or rail routes and have since moved out of Palm Beach County, the truck can remain where it was left. Name a contact who can open the gate and the sale goes forward from wherever you live.
Military Trail in Greenacres for a lost or lien-held title
Titles in Florida are issued by the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles through county tax collector service centers and license plate agents, and South Palm Beach owners have one close by on the mainland.
On the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles location directory, the nearest such office to South Palm Beach is the Palm Beach County motor vehicle service center - Greenacres, five miles inland at 4215 S. Military Trail, Greenacres, 33463, per that same Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles listing.
Should the title be lost or still carry a satisfied lien, that Military Trail office is where a duplicate or a clean copy starts. Bring photo identification and the lien release from your lender if one applies, and tell us at the outset whether the title is in hand.
Greenhouse benches, horse barns
Foliage, potted plants and horse country inland
USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 1,368 farms across Palm Beach County, with foliage plants, potted flowering plants and equine ranked as its top three products. Box trucks and refrigerated straight trucks that move plants from greenhouse benches to garden centers fit what we buy, as do the stake beds and flatbeds those growers keep around.
Horse operations in the county run gooseneck haulers and the pickups or medium-duty tractors that pull them, along with feed and hay trucks. If yours is parked at a stable or nursery out west, photograph the cab, the body and the tires in daylight, and note the gate code or the person on site who can let us in.
Out toward the rock pits
Twenty-two miles due west, the Mine Safety and Health Administration lists Palm Beach Aggregates LLC as a crushed-stone quarry. Dump trucks, end dumps and water trucks that hauled stone off that site belong on our list; a truck still parked at a quarry or contractor yard can be collected there, as long as you tell us who signs it out.
Closer in, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics marks NAVRESCEN W Palm Beach, a military installation 7.9 miles to the north-west. For a vehicle tied to that installation’s contractors, have the registration and any base access arrangements sorted before the pickup date is set, since entry rules sit with the installation, not with us.
The questions we get asked in South Palm Beach
- A South Palm Beach owner has misplaced the Florida title on a box truck; which office issues the duplicate?The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles lists its Greenacres service center at 4215 S. Military Trail, five miles from town on the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles directory, one of the county tax collector service centers that handle titles. Apply for the copy at that Greenacres counter and mention to us that the application is underway.
- Do you buy nursery box trucks and horse haulers from farms west of town?Palm Beach County’s 1,368 farms, per USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, lead with foliage plants, potted flowering plants and equine, and the box trucks, reefers and haulers that serve them are trucks we buy. Photos and the registration are enough to begin.
- Can you collect a dump truck at the quarry out west?Palm Beach Aggregates LLC, a crushed-stone quarry the Mine Safety and Health Administration lists 22.1 miles west, is a place we can collect from. Give us the name of the person at the site who can release the truck.