We buy trucks in University

University is a census-designated place in Orange County rather than a city, and our file holds two rows in it: an Army Research Lab site for simulations and training, and a Naval Logistics Support Annex. They are adjacent facilities in the Central Florida Research Park, and each resolves to this place from under half a mile away.

That is the tightest pair of resolutions in twenty batches of research. It is a pleasing fact about the data and it tells you nothing whatever about a truck.

Acreage, strength and mission were not established for either row. So this page is not going to describe them, and it is not going to pad the gap with adjectives.

So it will be exact about what actually decides a sale, and the item that catches people out most often is the paperwork behind a truck that has been through an insurance claim.

An insurer paying a total-loss claim must obtain the certificate of title, notify NMVTIS, and forward the title to the department inside 72 hours of receiving it. Thirty days after paying a claim, an insurer that cannot get a properly assigned title from the owner or lienholder may take a salvage certificate of title or a certificate of destruction from the department instead — but only where the title carries no electronic lien.

The electronic lien is the actual blocker. Everything else on that list moves on its own clock; a lien recorded electronically has to be released before any of it does.

For a truck that has been through none of that the position is one sentence. We need a title unless it is old enough that it never had one, a lost one has a counter replacement, and where none exists there is a bonded route.

Fla. Stat. § 319.30. Information, not legal advice.

Which leaves the weight rule. It comes down to two numbers and one exclusion.

Florida sets a single axle at 20,000 lb and a gross at 80,000 lb including all enforcement tolerances, and caps a single-unit dump truck, mixer, waste vehicle or fuel tanker at 70,000 lb. A divisible-load permit adds ten per cent over legal gross off the interstate system only, and does not reach those single-unit vehicles.

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

All of it is iron we buy, and around the Central Florida Research Park in Orange County the mix runs to service work more than haulage. Box trucks and straight trucks. Service bodies and utility trucks. Day cabs and road tractors, flatbeds, dump trucks, rollbacks, and the work trucks and pickups that go with a crew.

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.
• It is a one-vehicle sale, not a fleet. Are you interested?Yes. Most of what we buy is one truck from one owner — a Central Florida Research Park address is no different — and nothing about the process changes for a single vehicle.
• 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, and around the Central Florida Research Park they arrive the same way they do anywhere in Orange County. Retiring. A medical that went the wrong way. A contract that ended and left one truck more than the work needs.

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.