A satellite yard
What is recorded here is the corridor, not the yard
No facility-level source was found for the basin satellite yards filed against this city — no operator statement, no commodity list, no traffic figure. What our data holds is corridor-level and metropolitan rather than specific to any gate.
The Aurant Yard row makes the point twice over: its coordinate falls inside Los Angeles, which carries a page of its own. A yard we cannot describe, in a city it is not in.
That corridor it feeds is running well under its capacity
Those San Gabriel Valley yards sit on or beside the lines feeding the Alameda Corridor, and the corridor itself averaged 31 trains per day in the first quarter of 2024 against capacity for more than 150 train trips a day.
We are not going to tell you what that means for the next decade, because our sources do not. What it means today is that the road share of this basin’s freight is not a temporary condition waiting on a rail project — the rail capacity is already built and is not being used to its limit.
What runs here
A dense valley city that mostly runs on service work
So whatever you drive, the offer does not change — we buy all of them. This end of the San Gabriel Valley runs on distribution and service: box trucks and straight trucks on delivery rounds, day cabs between yards and warehouses, flatbeds on the contracting side, and dump trucks where there is groundwork.
Pickups and work trucks are everywhere, and a light truck here has usually had stop-start basin miles rather than long steady ones. San Gabriel, Monterey Park and Rosemead carry pages of their own and the same trucks work across all of them.
California weight law
The weight table here is not the federal one
That is state law rather than anything local, and it is the rule truck sellers misquote most often. CVC sections 35550 to 35558 set a statutory range of 34,000 to 80,000 lb by axle count and spacing, and § 35551(a) is a table rather than the federal Bridge Formula — no formula is declared in the statute at all.
The California table does not exactly match the Federal Bridge Table, including at three and four axles. So a configuration that is legal under one can be over under the other, and “it makes bridge formula” is a claim about which table you mean. If someone has told you your truck makes it, that is worth knowing before you repeat it.
Questions we actually get
The four that come up every time
Does it have to run? No. But 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. A missing bumper is nothing.
Do I need the title? We need a title, unless the truck is old enough that it never had one. If it is lost, that is a replacement through the DMV and we will walk you through it. If there is a lien on it, say so on the form — that is why the question asks whether the title is in hand rather than whether you own the truck, because those are different situations and they go different ways.
What if it has been in a wreck? Tell us what happened and we will look at it as it is. California sets no percentage: CVC § 544 makes it a judgement about whether repair is economical, so nothing is decided by a formula before we have seen the truck.
How does it get collected, and how am I paid? There is no clock on any of this. We come to you and drive it away, we come to you and tow it, we buy it remotely and arrange the tow, or you drive it to us. Payment is cash or electronic payment.
Sell your truck in Alhambra
Alhambra, San Gabriel, Monterey Park and the valley around them. Tell us what you have and we will take it from there.
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