Just 2 miles south-east of Willow Oak, toward Mulberry, sits a rail yard that the Federal Railroad Administration and Bureau of Transportation Statistics carry on their North American Rail Network. For a tractor or flatbed parked near that yard, give us the street address or the gate it sits behind, and we will plan the collection around that spot.
East of town by 2.3 miles, the same North American Rail Network shows a second yard named Prairie Jct West. If your truck works both yards, send one photo of the VIN plate, one of the odometer and a set showing the cab, frame and tires from every side.
Keep the title and current Florida registration together with the truck’s service records. When those three are in one folder the paperwork at pickup takes minutes, and nobody has to search a yard office for them.
Mineral Grow and Four Corners mines
Two industrial-mineral mines, Mineral Grow to the south-east and Four Corners to the south, each sit 11.4 miles from Willow Oak according to the Mine Safety and Health Administration. Dump trucks, water trucks and lowboy tractors that work mine sites like these are trucks we purchase.
A truck that is still on mine property can stay there. Tell us which site it is at, who can sign us in through the gate and whether a site escort is needed, and we will arrange the pickup with them directly instead of asking you to move it.
If the truck carries a mine site’s own inspection sheets or haul-road logs, include copies with the photos. Those sheets tell us where the truck has been working without you having to write it out.
Tankers to the north
Liquid bulk loads from the terminal up the road
A liquid bulk terminal run by Heniff sits 11 miles north of Willow Oak in the BTS facility listings. Tractors that pull tank trailers in and out of a site like that are trucks we take, sold on their own or coupled to the trailer.
With a tanker in the deal, the trailer needs its own VIN, registration and title, kept apart from the tractor’s papers. Both sets of documents in hand at once lets one driver collect the two units on a single visit.
West and east
Tampa port and the Winter Haven ramp
The Tampa Port Authority, a port on the Bureau of Transportation Statistics list, is 19.7 miles west of Willow Oak, and the same bureau places the Tampa rail intermodal ramp 22.1 miles out in that direction. Container chassis tractors running between Polk County and the Tampa docks fit what we buy.
Heading east instead, the Winter Haven ramp is a rail intermodal ramp 20.2 miles away on the Bureau of Transportation Statistics list. If your tractor is parked near Winter Haven or Tampa rather than at home in Willow Oak, give us that address; we collect from the truck’s location, not yours.
Building trades close to home
Dump trucks, flatbeds and box trucks from building work are trucks we take on.
A contractor closing out a single truck or several should list each one with its VIN, year and make. We can handle a group as one sale or one truck at a time, and each title should be signed by whoever is named on it.
Polk County pastures, hives and nurseries
USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 2,197 farms in Polk County, with cattle, honey and foliage plants among the top products. Livestock haulers, stake-bed trucks and refrigerated box trucks that serve that kind of farming belong on the list of what we purchase.
A farm truck often sits in a pasture or behind a barn rather than on a paved lot. Tell us how to reach it, whether a gate code or a call ahead is needed, and if the title is in a farm business name, who is authorised to sign for it.
The questions we get asked in Willow Oak
- Can you collect a tractor sitting at the yard just south-east of Willow Oak toward Mulberry?The Mulberry yard is 2 miles south-east of Willow Oak on the North American Rail Network, and we collect from there. Send the gate location and the name of whoever can let our driver in.
- Can you pick up a truck from one of the mines south of town?Mineral Grow and Four Corners are both 11.4 miles from Willow Oak in Mine Safety and Health Administration records, and a truck at either site can be collected there once the site’s sign-in arrangements are agreed.