The classification yard
Ninety-eight percent of the north state’s rail traffic goes through one yard
Union Pacific’s J.R. Davis Yard, on the edge of this community at Roseville, is the largest classification yard west of the Rockies and the largest rail facility on the west coast. It was rebuilt and reopened in 1999, and approximately 98 percent of all rail traffic in the north of this state flows through it.
A classification yard is where trains are taken apart and put back together, which makes it a road facility at its edges: cars are set out for local industry and the local industry is served by truck. A yard of that size does not sit quietly next to a community.
That yard appears twice in our data, in two different counties
That single facility is filed as two rows. Two records named Davis Yard lie 2.10 miles apart under the same carrier, one in Sacramento County and one in Placer County, and on the pattern established across all 2,459 rail-yard rows they are one yard whose track polyline was split at the county line.
The differing county is a symptom of that split rather than evidence of two facilities. It is worth saying because a page built by counting rows would report two of the largest yards in the west sitting two miles apart, which would be nonsense.
What runs here
A yard town on the edge of two counties
So whatever you drive, the offer does not change — we buy all of them. A facility that size puts day cabs and road tractors on the local roads in numbers, working short repetitive cycles between the yard and the industries it serves rather than long-haul distance.
Around that, Sacramento County and Placer County are ordinary suburban working ground: box trucks and straight trucks on distribution, flatbeds and dump trucks on the construction side, and pickups and work trucks everywhere. Roseville, Rocklin and Citrus Heights carry pages of their own.
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 Antelope
Antelope, Roseville, Citrus Heights and the north Sacramento area. Tell us what you have and we will take it from there.
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