Jayrock and Punta Gorda stone, under ten miles out
Jayrock, a crushed-stone quarry the Mine Safety and Health Administration places 8.9 miles north of Tice, is the nearest pit on the federal mine list. If your dump truck or end-dump trailer rig has hauled rock out of Jayrock, it may well be parked at the quarry or a contractor’s yard nearby when you call. Give us that gate address, and the name of whoever holds the key, and the collection gets arranged around the site rather than around you.
SRM Materials Punta Gorda sits 9.2 miles north-east of town, again by the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s listing, and it is also a crushed-stone operation. A tri-axle that splits its week between the two quarries is a truck we want to hear about. Have the Florida title in the registered owner’s name, the current registration, and four clear photos (both sides, the cab, the bed) before you reach out.
Bell, Halls, Corkscrew
Bell Mine, Halls Mine and the sand operations
Two industrial-mineral mines appear in the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s records for this corner of Florida: Bell Mine, 16.4 miles south-east, and Halls Mine, 18.9 miles north. If your tractor pulls a bottom-dump or belly trailer to either site, tell us whether the trailer is part of the sale or stays with you. Our Tice pickup gets planned around whichever you choose.
Sand and gravel come out of Bermont Excavating Site 2, 19.8 miles north, and Corkscrew, 20.8 miles south-east, on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s site list. Leave a truck kept at either pit right where it is, and our driver goes out to it. Write down the VIN off the door jamb and the odometer reading on the day you contact us, and keep any service records you have in the cab.
Builders’ trucks around Tice
The Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts (LODES) put 890 jobs in Tice for 2023, and 235 of those, 26.4 percent, are in construction. Flatbeds, roll-offs, concrete mixers and small dump trucks are all trucks we buy from builders here. If yours now sits behind a shop, the shop’s street address is all we need to find it.
For a construction outfit letting go of more than one unit, list every truck with its VIN and model year in a single message. We handle each truck on its own title, so a missing title on one does not hold up the others.
Corn, cattle, hives
Corn, cattle and honey across Lee County
Lee County had 813 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, with corn, cattle and honey at the top of its list. Grain trucks, cattle haulers and the straight trucks that move hives and supers between fields all fit what we buy. A farm truck often stays at the barn; tell us which gate to use and whether the ground is firm enough for a tow rig.
Whatever the plates on a Lee County farm truck, the title is what matters to us. Check that the name on it matches the registration exactly, and if the title has gone missing, tell us at the start so we can talk through the replacement with you before anything is scheduled.
Ready list
What a Tice seller should have in hand
Gather the title, the registration card, a photo of the VIN plate, and a short note of what the truck hauled, whether quarry rock from north of town, construction loads around Lee County, or farm freight. Those four items answer most of our first questions.
Then tell us where the truck is parked today, down to the yard or pit, and who can meet the driver there. With the quarries 8.9 to 20.8 miles out by the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s distances, the location is the one detail we most need right.
The questions we get asked in Tice
- The dump truck sits at Jayrock, north of Tice. Does it have to be driven down to Tice for you?Jayrock lies 8.9 miles north of Tice on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list, and we collect from the quarry itself. Name the Jayrock gate and whoever on site can open it for our driver.
- I run a small construction crew in Tice with three trucks. Can the trio go in one deal with you?Construction holds 235 of the 890 Tice jobs in the Census Bureau’s 2023 LEHD counts, and a crew selling three trucks is something we handle often. Send all three VINs in one message and we will work through each title separately.