Two stone pits within six miles of the Three Oaks streets
Crushed stone comes out of ALICO ROAD QUARRY, which the Mine Safety and Health Administration places 3.2 miles north-east of the Three Oaks town centre. A dump truck or end-dump tractor that hauls rock out of that pit is usually parked either at the quarry yard or back at a house in town, so tell us which one and who holds the gate key.
Five miles east, at a distance of 5.1 miles by the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s listing, the Fort Myers Mine also produces crushed stone. If your truck has split its loads between the two quarries, note it when you contact us; a plate number and VIN are enough to start, and photos of the bed, cab and tires fill in the rest.
Corkscrew sand and the mineral ground east of Three Oaks
Bell Mine, an industrial-mineral mine, is 12.3 miles east of Three Oaks according to the Mine Safety and Health Administration, and the Corkscrew sand and gravel operation sits half a mile beyond it at 12.8 miles. Tractors pulling bottom-dump or belt trailers out of that stretch can stay where they are parked; give us the road and the nearest cross street and we arrange collection there.
South-east of town, 18.1 miles out, the Mine Safety and Health Administration records 846 Mine LLC, another sand and gravel site. A truck kept on a lot near that pit does not need to come back to Three Oaks before the sale, but have the Florida title in the owner’s name and the current registration ready to hand over at pickup.
Contractor work inside the Three Oaks job base
Of the 404 jobs located in Three Oaks in 2023, the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts place 73 in construction, which is 18.1 percent. Contractors at that scale tend to run a handful of flatbeds, dump trucks and service bodies rather than a large fleet, and any of those is a truck we buy.
If your vehicle is a contractor’s truck that sits on a jobsite between projects, tell us the site address and the hours someone can be there. Bring out any service invoices you kept, and a list of what the body carries, such as a crane, a dump bed or a utility box, so we can match photos to equipment.
Corn, cattle and honey trucks from Lee County fields
USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 813 farms in Lee County, with corn, cattle and honey at the top of the county’s list. Grain trucks, livestock haulers and the flatbeds that move hive boxes between fields all come off those farms, and a farm truck is as welcome as a quarry truck.
Farm trucks often carry a farm tag rather than a standard plate, so check what the registration says before you call. If the truck lives in a barn or pasture off a dirt lane, describe the access, and send a photo of the title showing whose name is on it; a cattle hauler parked behind a gate is no harder to collect once we know where the gate is.
What to have before we come out
A title signed by every owner it lists is the main document; if a lender is still on it, tell us the lender’s name so the lien can be handled at the sale. Registration, the VIN plate and the key ring finish the set.
Photos do the remaining work. For a dump truck from the Alico Road pits, shoot the bed, the hoist and the frame rails; for a Lee County farm truck, include the rack or trailer it pulls. Clear daylight pictures of each side and the dash save a second round of questions.
The questions we get asked in Three Oaks
- Will you pick up a dump truck that is still sitting in the Alico Road quarry yard?ALICO ROAD QUARRY is 3.2 miles north-east of Three Oaks on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list, close enough that we pick up at the quarry yard itself. Give us the name of whoever can let us through the gate.
- I run a small construction outfit in Three Oaks. Do you take more than one truck?Construction holds 73 of the 404 jobs in Three Oaks on the Census Bureau’s LEHD counts for 2023, and small contractors here sell us one truck or several at once. List each VIN and where each one is parked.
- Is a cattle or hive truck from a Lee County farm outside Three Oaks something you would take?Lee County has 813 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, led by corn, cattle and honey, and trucks from any of them qualify. Send the title, the registration and photos, and tell us how to reach the field or barn.