We buy trucks in Spring Hill

The operation filed under this page is called County Line Mine, and the name is doing more work than it looks like it is. The row carries Pasco County as its county; the coordinate on the same row reverse-geocodes to Hernando County. The central cross-check flagged it and left the verdict open.

Flagging rather than fixing is deliberate. The node list is read-only to a composing session, and a mine that genuinely straddles a line is exactly the case where guessing which field is wrong produces a confident answer and a false one. Both counties are named here because both are in the record.

It is carried as a surface operation working industrial sand, with eleven people on the mine safety register and a holding company as the operator of record. That is the whole of what was established about the site itself.

So the thing worth knowing before you pull in is not on any sign. A surface sand operation sits inside the federal training scope that covers sand, gravel, surface stone and surface clay, and that scope reaches over-the-road delivery drivers — site-specific hazard awareness training before work at each mine site, not once for the trade.

Each site is the part people miss. A driver who has been trained at County Line Mine has not thereby been trained at the next pit down the road, and a truck that runs several sites in a week carries several of those.

The other property of the material is silica, and it is stated here as a property rather than as a measurement: industrial sand is substantially silica by design, the exposure limit for it is set nationally, and no measured reading at this site was found or is claimed anywhere in Hernando County.

Which brings it back to the iron. Sand out of a pit like County Line Mine moves in tonnage at low value per tonne, so it moves in whatever is cheapest to run and it moves full.

A single-unit dump truck in this state may not exceed 70,000 lb gross where a tractor-trailer combination gets 80,000 lb, and the record has it that the trucks this trade turns over are the single-unit kind. That is a short, heavy, repetitive cycle: it loads the frame and the suspension, it eats brakes, and it puts very little on the odometer.

Abrasive material adds the rest. Sand gets into everything, and the wear it leaves is a wear pattern rather than evidence of neglect. We read it as the former.

So the schedule sits underneath all of it. Florida allows 80,000 lb gross including all enforcement tolerances and 20,000 lb on a single axle.

A single-unit vehicle used as a dump truck, mixer, waste vehicle or fuel tanker may not exceed 70,000 lb gross including the weight of the vehicle. The divisible-load permit adds ten per cent off the interstate system only. It names no commodity at all, which quietly includes sand and stone — and it excludes single-unit vehicles, which the record calls the trucks this trade turns over. The relief steps around the trade it would help.

Fla. Stat. § 316.535 and § 316.550(4). Information, not legal advice.

Those are the load. The paperwork is what decides how fast a sale closes. We need a title unless the truck is old enough that it never had one.

A lost title has a counter replacement. Where none exists there is a bonded route. Neither is unusual and neither stops a sale.

The plate stays in the owner’s name rather than going with the truck — onto a replacement vehicle of the same class, or back to the county tax collector.

Fla. Stat. § 320.0609(1)(a). Information, not legal advice.

All of that is iron we buy. Dump trucks and aggregate haulers held to 70,000 lb where a combination gets 80,000 lb, day cabs and road tractors, box trucks, flatbeds, tankers, rollbacks, service bodies and the pickups that go with a crew — across Hernando County, up at Brooksville and south at Shady Hills.

Whatever you drive, the offer doesn’t change. We buy all of them.

• Does it have to run?No. It does have to be complete — if the engine, transmission, doors, rear ends, drive shafts, wheels or anything under the hood have been removed, we can’t buy it. Rust is not a disqualifier.
• The engine is out of it. Is that different?Yes, and that is the line. A tired engine is fine; an engine that has been pulled out and sold means we can’t buy the truck.
• My paperwork says one county and the pit says another. Which is right?Possibly both. The row for County Line Mine carries Pasco County while its coordinate falls in Hernando County, and the cross-check flagged that rather than picking a winner. We read the coordinate and the truck, so it makes no difference to a sale.
• It is full of sand and always will be. Does that count against it?No. Abrasive material leaves a wear pattern, and a wear pattern is not neglect. Telling us what it hauled saves us reading it off the photographs and explains a frame and a suspension that would otherwise not match the odometer.
• Do you come out?Yes. We can come to you and drive it away, or come to you and tow it. We can also buy it where it stands and arrange the tow with no visit at all, and you’re welcome to bring it to us if that suits you better.
• What about the title?We need one unless the truck is old enough that it never had one. A lost title has a counter replacement; where none exists there’s a bonded route.
• How do you pay?Cash or electronic payment, whichever suits you.

Beyond a truck that has simply done its turns, the reasons are personal ones. Retiring. A medical that went the wrong way. A haul off County Line Mine that went away and left one dump truck standing in a Hernando County yard with nothing booked for it.

Most of those aren’t happy reasons, and we don’t treat them like they are. Somebody wants a straight answer and the truck gone by the end of the week. That’s what we’re here for.