Produce, lumber and freight out of Wimauma
Of the 253 active motor carriers registered in Wimauma, 166 put general freight on their FMCSA carrier census filing. If your tractor or box truck belongs to one of those general freight outfits, the cab type, axle count and VIN are the three things to send first, along with a photo of each side.
Fresh produce appears on 69 Wimauma registrations in the same FMCSA census, with farm supplies on 30. A reefer unit or a flatbed that spent its seasons moving crates from the fields around town is the kind of equipment we collect here; have the title and the current Florida registration in one folder before you call.
Thirty-two local carriers list logs, poles, beams or lumber as cargo, according to FMCSA. If yours is a log truck or a stake-bed that moved lumber, tell us whether the trailer or the bunks go with it, so the paperwork covers everything that leaves the yard.
Intrastate work and longer runs
Of Wimauma’s registered carriers, 187 run intrastate only and 66 cross state lines, the federal carrier census shows, while 73 operate as private fleets hauling their own goods. A private-fleet truck that served a nursery, a builder or a packing house can be sold by the business that owns it; bring the company’s name on the title and someone who can sign for it.
The FMCSA census counts 227 drivers working within 100 miles of Wimauma and 321 going beyond that radius. If your driver is out on a long run when you decide to sell, tell us where the truck will be parked when it gets back, and we schedule collection at that spot rather than in town.
A Wimauma produce or freight truck at the middle of the range runs 33,567 miles a year, going by the 50 local carriers that file mileage in FMCSA’s census. Note your own odometer reading in the first message; it is one of the figures we ask for on every truck.
Roadside stops along the south county routes
Between August 2024 and August 2026, inspectors stopped 163 Wimauma-based trucks, and FMCSA roadside inspection records give them a median model year of 2017, with 44 percent at ten years or older. Whatever the model year of yours, send the build year and engine make with the VIN so the details line up from the start.
Keep any inspection reports from those roadside stops with the title; they are part of the truck’s paper history. Service invoices from a local shop go in the same envelope.
Single rigs and sixty-truck yards
The largest Wimauma carrier in the federal census runs 60 power units with 60 drivers, and the next two run 14 and 12 trucks. Selling several units at once from a yard like that works the same way as selling one: list each VIN, note which trucks share a lot, and we plan the collection around the yard.
New registrations keep arriving too: FMCSA recorded 22 new carriers here in 2024 and 20 in 2025. An owner-operator who started recently and has decided to sell should have the title in hand, or a lien release if the truck was financed.
Construction, farms and the mine west of town
Construction accounts for 241 of the 1,606 jobs located in Wimauma in 2023, by the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts, with agriculture, forestry and fishing at 184 and manufacturing at 72. Sixty builders, site-work firms and other construction establishments operate around Wimauma under the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns. Dump trucks and flatbeds from those job sites can be collected where they sit; give us the site address and a gate contact.
USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture lists 1,992 farms in Hillsborough County, with aquatic plants, cattle and transplants at the top. A cattle hauler or a nursery truck parked on a farm road is fine for pickup as long as we have directions to it.
Caloosa Materials, an industrial-mineral mine about 8 miles west, is on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s register. If your dump truck has been hauling out of that pit, mention it and include photos of the bed with the cab.
Port Manatee, Tampa and the rail yards
Manatee County Port lies about 13.9 miles south and the Tampa Port Authority about 16.1 miles north, per the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. A day cab that has pulled containers between those docks does not need to come back to Wimauma before collection; send the address where it is parked.
The North American Rail Network maps the Port Manatee rail yard 13.6 miles west and the Big Four yard 13.9 miles east. The Energy Information Administration lists petroleum product terminals at Port Manatee, 15.1 miles out, and at Tampa, 16.8 miles out. For a tanker tractor that served those terminals, keep the hazmat paperwork and any tank test reports with the title.
MacDill Air Force Base sits about 16.4 miles north-west, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. A truck stored near the base or at the Tampa end of the county can be collected there; just confirm who can let us onto the lot.
The questions we get asked in Wimauma
- My produce truck is parked at a packing shed outside Wimauma. Does it have to be driven into Wimauma before pickup?Fresh produce haulers make up 69 of the carriers FMCSA lists in Wimauma, and many of their trucks sit at sheds and fields rather than in town. Leave it where it is and give us directions and a contact on site.
- The truck is registered to my company, a private fleet. Which officer of a Wimauma business signs the title over?FMCSA counts 73 private fleets among Wimauma’s carriers, and for each of them the title shows the business as owner. Someone authorised to sign for that business signs the title, and we need their name when you first get in touch.
- Our dump truck is still parked inside the Caloosa Materials pit west of Wimauma. Is pickup possible from the pit itself?Caloosa Materials is about 8 miles west of Wimauma on the Mine Safety and Health Administration register, and a truck parked there can be picked up on site. Tell us who controls access to the pit so the collection can be arranged with them.
- Which details about a Wimauma truck should go in the first message?For the 163 Wimauma trucks in FMCSA roadside inspection records, the median model year was 2017, so start with your own truck’s year, make, VIN and odometer reading. Add photos of the cab, both sides and the frame, plus the title and Florida registration.