Sell your semi truck for cash in Aptos Hills-Larkin Valley the easy and convenient way

Construction held 86 of the 577 jobs sited in the Larkin Valley hills in 2023, close to one in seven, by the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts. A dump truck, flatbed or service body that has worked those job sites is the kind of truck we buy here, and it is most likely parked at a home or a contractor’s lot off the valley roads when we come for it.

Farming, forestry, fishing and hunting supplied 58 of those same 577 jobs, or 10.1 percent, according to the LEHD job counts from the Census Bureau. If your box truck or stake bed carries nursery stock between growers in the hills, send photos of the body, the cab and the VIN plate so we know the truck before we arrive.

Tell us the street address and whether the lane up to the truck is narrow or steep. Plenty of trucks in these hills sit up a gravel lane, and knowing that at the start lets us bring the right equipment.

Around Aptos Hills-Larkin Valley, USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 614 farms in Santa Cruz County, with propagative material, potted flowering plants and cut flowers among the leading products. Refrigerated box trucks and enclosed vans that move plants and stems to market fit what we purchase.

If your reefer unit has a service log, keep it with the title. Records of when the refrigeration and the engine were serviced give us the truck’s history in a way photos alone cannot, and you hand them over at pickup with the keys.

Olive Springs Quarry Inc, a crushed-stone quarry listed by the Mine Safety and Health Administration, lies 8 miles north-west of Aptos Hills-Larkin Valley, and the A R Wilson Quarry, another crushed-stone site, sits 12 miles east. Dump trucks, transfer trucks and end-dump tractors that haul from those pits are trucks we collect.

Further out, the Mine Safety and Health Administration lists the Quail Hollow Operation, a sand and gravel site 14.6 miles north-west, and PLANT 25, a sand and gravel operation 23.5 miles to the east. If your truck is kept at one of those yards rather than at home, give us the gate details and who can let us in.

Down the hill toward Pajaro, Watsonville Yard sits 6.8 miles south-east of town on the North American Rail Network maintained by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. A tractor or straight truck that shuttles freight to and from that yard is one we can pick up wherever it is parked.

Have the registration card ready along with the title. If the truck is registered in a company name, the person signing needs to be someone who can sign for that company, and telling us early saves a second visit.

Titles here are issued by the State of California Department of Motor Vehicles, which handles them through DMV field offices. The California DMV lists its nearest field office, Watsonville, at 90 Alta Vista Avenue, Watsonville, 95076, 4.5 miles from Aptos Hills-Larkin Valley.

If the certificate is missing, that Watsonville office is where a duplicate is requested. Tell us when you first contact us that the title is lost, so we can plan the sale around the replacement rather than finding out at the truck.

The Advanced Clean Trucks Regulation is contested at present. A federal court record covers the California Air Resources Board’s 2036 100 Percent Medium- and Heavy-Duty Zero-Emission Vehicle Sales Requirements, and enforcement of that rule is paused.

As for the Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation - Drayage Fleet Requirements and High Priority and Federal Fleets Requirements, the California Air Resources Board has repealed it. Owners in Aptos Hills-Larkin Valley can sell a diesel truck to us whatever its model year; give us the year and the engine family from the emissions label.

• My dump truck is kept at Olive Springs or the A R Wilson pit - can you pick it up there?Olive Springs Quarry Inc is 8 miles north-west and the A R Wilson Quarry 12 miles east, per the Mine Safety and Health Administration; give us the site and a contact at the gate and we will collect it there.
• The title for my truck in Aptos Hills-Larkin Valley is lost - which office replaces it?The State of California Department of Motor Vehicles field office in Watsonville, at 90 Alta Vista Avenue, is 4.5 miles away and handles duplicate titles; let us know the title is missing when you first get in touch.
• Do you buy refrigerated trucks from the nurseries?Santa Cruz County’s 614 farms, counted in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, grow potted flowering plants and cut flowers, and the reefer box trucks that carry them are trucks we purchase; send photos and the VIN.