Escambia County
Four bases, two rail yards, two pits and a terminal — one county
Our file holds one row here, Corry Station, attached to this place by falling inside its own radius at 1.29 miles. Its coordinate reverse-geocodes to Escambia County. Acreage, strength and mission are not established and none is guessed at on this page.
The county around it is the part worth having. Escambia County carries ten rows in our file across six kinds of site: four military installations, two rail yards, a sand and gravel pit, an industrial mineral pit, a liquid bulk terminal and a petroleum port. That is a mixed working county rather than a single-industry one.
So the truck that turns up here is not one kind of truck
So the working mix is genuinely wide, and the registers say so. The Molino Pit carries four people on the mine safety register and the Shortleaf Borrow Pit two. The Goulding yard sits at Pensacola with a liquid bulk terminal beside it, and the Pensacola yard is filed over at West Pensacola.
Two small pits, two rail yards, a fuel terminal and four installations put dump trucks, tankers, flatbeds, box trucks and service bodies on the same county roads. We are not specialists in one of those. We buy across all of them, and what the truck did for a living is not what decides the offer.
Which makes four gate addresses four addresses, not four problems
Which is worth saying plainly, because a base address sometimes reads as a complication and it is not one. Saufley Field over at Bellview, NAS Pensacola and the outlying field at OLF Bronson filed together, and Corry Station here, are four separate rows inside Escambia County.
Collection is our end of the job at every one of them. We come to you and drive it away, we come to you and tow it, we buy it where it stands and arrange the tow, or you bring it to us. If a gate or a pass is involved, tell us early and we plan around whoever controls it.
Florida weight law
And the limb that catches a straight truck whichever gate it came out of
Those trucks all run under one schedule once they are on the road, and one limb of it is about how the vehicle is built rather than what it is carrying.
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, a concrete mixer, a waste collection vehicle or a fuel tanker is held to 70,000 lb. The divisible-load permit FDOT may issue — ten per cent over legal gross, off the interstate system only, and in force since 1 July 2010 — does not reach that class at all.
Fla. Stat. § 316.535, subsections (1), (5) and (6), with § 316.550(4). Information, not legal advice.
Florida paperwork
We need a title — unless the truck never had one
Those rules stop mattering the day the truck changes hands, and the paperwork is what is left.
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 behind. Florida issues the registration and the plate to the owner and keeps them in the owner’s name, so it comes off the truck and goes onto another vehicle of the same class or back to the county tax collector.
Fla. Stat. § 320.0609(1)(a). Information, not legal advice.
What we buy here
All of it is iron we buy across Escambia County. Dump trucks and aggregate haulers off the two pits, held to 70,000 lb where a combination gets 80,000 lb. Tankers off the terminal end of it. Box trucks and straight trucks off route work, service bodies and utility trucks, day cabs and road tractors, flatbeds, rollbacks and the pickups that go with a small crew.
Whatever you drive, the offer doesn’t change. We buy all of them.
We buy complete trucks. If the engine, transmission, doors, rear ends, drive shafts, wheels or anything under the hood have been removed, we can’t buy it. Small things — a missing bumper — are fine.
Straight answers
The questions we get asked in Warrington
- 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.
- The truck is on a base. Does that change anything?Only the scheduling, and that is ours to sort. Corry Station sits 1.29 miles from the middle of the place, so the drive is not the issue. Tell us early who holds the gate and we arrange collection around them. It does not change what we are buying or how we look at it.
- Do you buy the small stuff as well as the big?Yes. Escambia County runs pits with four and two people on the register alongside four installations, so the trucks here range from a pickup with a service body to a road tractor. We buy across the whole range.
- 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.
Why people call
Beyond a truck that has simply done its turns, the reasons are personal ones. Retiring. A medical that went the wrong way. A support contract in Escambia County that ended and left one box truck more than the next job needs, standing on a yard somewhere between Corry Station and the Goulding yard.
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.