Route · 55–85 min via I-95 north to the bridges
Collections from Palm Beach & West Palm Beach
The island is reached by three bridges and has its own rules about commercial vehicles, hours and where you may stop. Palm Beach also holds the highest concentration of properly catalogued private art in the state, which makes collections here faster — the condition reports usually already exist.
Tell us what, from where, and roughly when. No obligation, and no inventory list needed to start the conversation.
Unmarked
No livery, no logo, nothing that names the cargo
Two-person
Every movement. One never leaves the property
Signed
Chain of custody at every handoff, timestamped
1983
Operating the destination vault since
Planning
How this route runs
The drive
- Time each way
- 55–85 min
- Road
- I-95 north to the bridges
- Destination
- 3562 N Ocean Blvd, Fort Lauderdale — Galt Ocean Mile
- Stops en route
- None. The vehicle is not left unattended at any point.
Before the day
- Tell us roughly what is moving. A list helps; it is not required to book.
- For a building, we need the management contact — most want a certificate of insurance filed in advance.
- For a gated community, arrange the gate authorization. A vehicle turned away wastes the morning.
- For an estate, have the documented authority to hand before we arrive.
- Allow time for the inventory. It is the part that protects you and the part people rush.
Conditions
What the drive from Palm Beach & West Palm Beach is actually like
North on I-95 then east across one of the bridges onto the island. The bridges are the whole story on this route — a small number of crossings, all of which open for marine traffic, and no way onto the island that avoids them. Season makes it materially worse. We treat the crossing as the fixed point and plan the rest around it.
Access
Arriving in Palm Beach & West Palm Beach
The town regulates activity on the island more tightly than anywhere else we serve, including expectations about service vehicles, hours and where they may stand. Properties are predominantly large single-family homes and a small number of very well managed buildings. Discretion is not a marketing line here; it is a practical requirement, and our vehicles carry no markings for exactly this kind of address.
Cargo
What usually moves from Palm Beach & West Palm Beach
Safe Deposit Box Contents
The bank has no record of what is in your box, and that gap is the whole problem when it moves.
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Bullion & Coin
A bar carries no serial number a jury would care about, so the count made at collection is the only record.
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Fine Art & Antiques
Art is rarely stolen in transit. It is damaged, and undated damage is the argument nobody wins later.
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Jewelry & Watches
Small, portable, easy to sell, and usually already known about by someone. Discretion matters more here than anywhere.
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Legal Documents & Originals
A scan of a will is worth nothing. When the paper is the asset, ambiguity about it is the real risk.
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Data Tapes & Drives
A rotation that depends on somebody remembering a tape on Friday fails quietly, until the week you need a restore.
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Common questions
- How long is the drive from Palm Beach & West Palm Beach?
- 55–85 min each way, via I-95 north to the bridges, before season traffic. We quote the honest figure rather than the optimistic one, because the schedule for the day depends on it.
- How far ahead should we book?
- A week is comfortable for most collections. May and October fill up across the whole of South Florida, and a building with a bookable loading dock will usually need more notice than a house.
- Does the property travel with anyone else's?
- No. Your load is not consolidated with another client's, and there are no other collections on the same run.
- Can we follow the vehicle?
- Yes. Clients regularly drive down behind us and watch the property go into the vault. Nobody has ever been told no.
- Do you charge by distance?
- Distance is part of it, along with the size of the load and how long the collection itself takes. You get a figure before the day, not after.
Nearby routes
35–55 min
Boca Raton & Delray Beach
The southern edge of Palm Beach County and the densest concentration of seasonal residents we serve. May and October here are booked out weeks ahead, because half the county is closing or opening a house in the same fortnight.
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60–90 min
Wellington
The equestrian season runs January to April and the town roughly doubles, then empties. That calendar drives everything here: collections cluster hard in April and May as seasonal barns and houses close, and the roads around the showgrounds are genuinely impassable on a competition weekend.
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1.5–2.5 hrs
Jupiter, Stuart & Vero Beach
The Treasure Coast, and the point where a collection stops being a morning and becomes a day. There is no vault of this specification north of us until you are well into central Florida, which is why clients here still make the drive south worthwhile.
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Plan a collection from Palm Beach & West Palm Beach.
What, from where, and roughly when. You do not need an inventory to start the conversation, and if the job belongs with an armored carrier we will say so on the call.