East Palatka loads
Trucks that load at the SRM pit near East Palatka
SRM Materials East Palatka, an industrial-mineral mine that the Mine Safety and Health Administration places 16.7 miles south-west of this community, is where some local dump trucks and tractors take on loads. If yours has hauled out of that site, tell us so when you first get in touch, and say whether it is now parked at the mine, at a yard near East Palatka or back home in St. Augustine South.
A truck that has worked a mine gate usually carries its own paper trail. Gather the title, the current Florida registration and any service records kept for it, then photograph the cab, the bed or fifth wheel, the frame and the tires and send those pictures with your first message.
Shuttle tractors
Tractors that shuttle between the coast and the PECAN rail yard
The nearest yard to St. Augustine South is PECAN, 23.4 miles to the south-west on the North American Rail Network kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Day cabs that shuttle freight between a yard like PECAN and customers along the coast fit what we collect.
If your tractor works that rail run, send us its VIN and the odometer reading along with the photos. We will come to wherever the tractor sits, whether that is a lot near the yard or a driveway closer to St. Augustine South, so give us the address and the name of whoever can open the gate.
Selling a contractor’s dump truck or flatbed
Of the 1,273 jobs the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts place in this community for 2023, 96, a 7.5 percent share, are in construction. Contractors on that work run dump trucks, flatbeds and box trucks, and any of them is a truck you can sell to us.
For a contractor’s truck, the key paperwork is the title in the name of whoever is selling, whether that is you or your company. If the title sits with a business, have the person who can sign for that business ready, together with the registration and any inspection records kept for the truck.
Hives and pasture
Farm trucks from beekeepers, horse barns and cattle land
USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 223 farms across St. Johns County, with honey, equine and cattle at the top of the list. Stock trailers’ tractors, feed haulers and straight trucks that move hives or hay all come out of that kind of farming, and we buy them where they are parked.
A farm truck often stays on the property it serves. Tell us the farm’s address, how a truck can get in from the road and whether the truck is kept in a barn or out in a field, and send photos taken in daylight from all four sides.
Getting your title in order
A missing Florida title is replaced through the state’s title agency, and the replacement has to be in your hands before the truck changes owners. Start that replacement before you contact us if you can, and tell us where it stands if you cannot.
Lien paperwork matters as much as the title itself. If a lender is still on record against the truck, have the payoff letter or the lien release in hand, so the transfer from your name to ours can be completed when we come to collect.
The questions we get asked in St. Augustine South
- Is it fine to leave my dump truck at the East Palatka mine lot while I sell it?SRM Materials East Palatka is 16.7 miles south-west of town on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s listing, and we collect from there, so leave the truck in place and tell us who controls access to the lot.
- Do you take tractors that work out of the PECAN rail yard?PECAN sits 23.4 miles south-west of town on the North American Rail Network, and day cabs and sleepers from that run are among the trucks we buy; send the VIN, the odometer reading and photos to start.
- Will you collect a farm truck that stays out on a cattle property in the county?USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture lists cattle among the top three farm types on 223 farms in St. Johns County. Collection on a farm is routine for us: tell us the gate, the lane in from the road and where on the land the truck stands.