We buy trucks in Titusville

The quarry filed under this page is Rock Solid Rock, a three-person operation whose coordinate sits 7.31 miles from the middle of town. Within ten miles of it the national bridge file records 93 structures, and not one of them is coded posted for load or coded below legal loads.

That is a genuine clean zero on both fields, and it is worth saying carefully because the survey has been caught out on exactly this sentence before. A sweep of every fact making that claim found eleven, and two of those were simply false and have since been rewritten. This one was checked against both fields rather than one.

What it means on the ground is that a loaded truck leaving here meets no sign that changes its route. That is not true everywhere in this trade, and it is worth knowing you have it.

So it is worth putting a scale under that. Across this state 4.4% of structures are coded below legal loads, which the survey records as the second mildest of the sixteen states it has entered.

Within the state the survey is complete at 62 quarry and mine rows, and 59.7% of them carry no commercial floor at all — 28 with nothing posted either, 8 posted but not restricted, and one with no structure of any kind within ten miles. So a clean run out of the gate is close to the ordinary experience here rather than a piece of luck.

The county tier is where it stops being uniform. It runs from 50.0% of the sixteen bridges one county maintains, and 34.6% of a much larger stock in another, down to 1.8% and 2.4% at the other end — the widest spread the survey has measured in this state.

Which is not to say nothing constrains a truck here. This side of Brevard County is a band: rail, US 1 and the interstate all inside a few miles of the water, with very little road network east of them, so north and south are easy and east and west are not.

The other thing is the file itself. The rail row filed under Port St. John is called Frontenac and its coordinate lands inside this city, and the quarry row filed here sits 7.31 miles from the centre of the place it is named for. Rows in this file point at their neighbours often enough that the city field is the last thing to trust.

Neither of those changes a sale. Both change which fact we read first, and we read the coordinate and the county before the town on a line of paperwork.

So with no crossing in the way, the schedule is what is left to hold a truck down. 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, and the record is explicit that it does not apply to those single-unit vehicles.

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.

Which is the same iron either way. Dump trucks and aggregate haulers off the Rock Solid Rock end held to 70,000 lb where a combination gets 80,000 lb, day cabs and road tractors off the coastal band, flatbeds, box trucks, tankers, rollbacks, service bodies and the pickups that go with a crew — the same north at Mims and south at Sharpes.

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.
• Is there a bridge round here that will turn me back?Not within ten miles of the quarry. All 93 structures in that radius are clear on both the posting field and the below-legal-loads field, which is the kind of claim this survey has printed wrongly before, so it was checked against both fields rather than one.
• My paperwork names a yard I have never been to. Does that matter?No, and it is common here. The rail row filed under Port St. John has its coordinate inside this city, and the quarry row filed here sits 7.31 miles from the centre of it. Around Brevard County the city field is the last thing we read.
• 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 the Rock Solid Rock end that went away and left one tipper standing in a Brevard 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.