Three mine sites ringing Williston
The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists Raleigh Quarry, a crushed-stone operation, 1.9 miles north of Williston, and Levy County Pit, another crushed-stone site, 13.5 miles to the west. A dump truck or tractor that runs aggregate between those pits may well be parked at a quarry gate rather than at your house. Give us the site name and who can let us in, and we collect it there.
Ocala Quarry, an industrial-mineral mine 10.9 miles east according to the Mine Safety and Health Administration, is the third extraction site within reach of town. If your truck has worked any of these three, mention which one when you get in touch, and send photos of the bed or body as well as the cab and the VIN plate.
Logs, lumber and hay on Williston cabs
Of the 205 active carriers in Williston on FMCSA’s carrier census, 116 list general freight, 77 list logs, poles, beams and lumber, 48 list machinery and large objects, and 41 list grain, feed and hay. That mix covers log trucks, flatbeds, lowboys, hay haulers and dry vans, and we buy each of those types from owners here.
Timber and hay carriers often keep a trailer with the tractor, so tell us whether you are selling the power unit alone or the pair. With a log truck or flatbed, have the title for each unit you are selling, plus the registration, ready before we talk.
In-state carriers and fleets hauling their own goods
FMCSA’s carrier census shows 168 Williston carriers operating intrastate and 35 crossing state lines, with 63 of them running private fleets that haul their own goods. Most trucks here, in other words, are registered to stay inside Florida, and many belong to farms, mills or contractors rather than for-hire outfits.
If your truck belongs to a private fleet, the business that owns it is the name on the title, so the person who signs for that business should be the one we deal with. A company letterhead note naming that signer saves a round of questions when we arrange collection.
Short and long radius
Carriers here report 278 drivers working within 100 miles and 175 driving beyond that radius, per FMCSA’s carrier census. For a seller, that split means your truck could be at home in Levy County or several hundred miles off on a run when you decide to sell, and either location works for us.
A median of 30,000 miles a year per truck comes from the 35 Williston carriers that filed mileage with FMCSA’s carrier census. Have the current odometer reading and the VIN on hand when you contact us; those two details let us start on any truck straight away.
Williston’s three top fleets hold 20, 17 and 11 power units apiece on FMCSA’s carrier census, the 17-unit one with 16 drivers. An owner selling several trucks at once can list them together, one VIN per line, and we work through the group in a single conversation.
Williston plant floors and job sites
On the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts for 2023, Williston holds 2,320 jobs, and 969 of them, 41.8 percent, sit in manufacturing. Construction holds 53 jobs and transportation and warehousing 92, by the same LEHD figures, so plant yards and building sites are both likely places for a work truck to sit between jobs.
If the truck is parked at a plant or on a job site, let us know whose property it is and the hours the gate is open. We set the pickup around that site’s access rather than asking you to move the truck.
Pastures, paddocks and cornfields outside Williston
Cattle lead the list for Levy County’s 993 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, followed by equine and corn. Livestock haulers, grain trucks and farm flatbeds working those operations are all trucks we purchase.
A farm truck can sit in a barn or out in a pasture for long stretches, so tell us the gate code or the field it is in and whether a tow vehicle can reach it on dry ground. Find the title before we set a date; if it is lost, the state’s title agency issues a replacement, and we can tell you which form to ask for.
The questions we get asked in Williston
- Can I sell a log truck along with its trailer?Logs, poles, beams and lumber are listed by 77 Williston carriers on FMCSA’s carrier census, and we buy the tractor with its trailer or on its own. Have a title ready for each unit you include.