The far north-east corner
The county seat, at four and a half thousand feet, in the emptiest corner of the state
This is the seat of Modoc County, in California’s far north-east at about 4,400 feet, and it is among the least populated counties in the state. The economy is ranching and timber.
Altitude and emptiness are both facts about a truck’s working life here. Cold starts, long unaccompanied runs and a long way to the nearest parts counter shape a vehicle more than annual mileage does, and anybody who has run one up here knows which of those cost the most.
That timber economy runs into a rule we cannot quote
That timber half comes with a gap we have to name. California publishes a log-hauler exemption, and it is not extracted into the state rule file we work from, so we cannot tell you its terms.
It is a live question in Modoc County rather than an academic one, because this is exactly the country where it would apply — timber ground at 4,400 feet with a long haul off it. Not extracted is not the same as does not exist, and we would rather point you at the source than paraphrase a rule we have not read.
What runs here
And nothing facility-specific was established at all
So whatever you drive, the offer does not change — we buy all of them. Ranching and timber put log trucks, timber rigs, farm trucks and flatbeds on these roads, with day cabs on the long runs out and pickups and work trucks everywhere.
On the one rail row filed here, nothing facility-specific was established: no traffic, no customers, and the carrier string was not verified against a current source. So Modoc County is the whole of what this page can vouch for, and 4,400 feet of it. Susanville and Yreka are the nearest towns of any size, which is a fair measure of the distances, and it is why the usual answer here is that we buy it remotely and arrange the move.
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. Out here the common one is that we buy it remotely and arrange the tow, so the sale does not wait on anybody driving out. We also come to you and drive it away, come to you and tow it, or you drive it to us. Payment is cash or electronic payment.
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Alturas and the far north-east corner. Most sales up here we buy remotely and arrange the tow, so nothing waits on a drive over the mountains.
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