A large quarry, close in
A hundred and fifteen people, a mile and a half from the middle of town
MSHA records 115 employees at the Wilson Quarry, and its coordinates lie 1.57 miles from the centroid of this place. That is a major aggregate operation effectively inside a small community.
Living next to a quarry of that size means the local road pattern is set by loaded trucks rather than by commuters. Short, heavy, repetitive runs are what these roads see, and that is the working life most vehicles sold from here have had.
That network has no cap to report, and one sign anyway
Those roads produce a figure that is easy to misread, so it is worth being exact. Within ten miles of the Wilson Quarry the 2025 National Bridge Inventory records 149 structures, and none of them is coded below legal loads — but one is coded posted for load.
So there is no commercial floor to report and there is still a sign at a crossing that this measurement has no number for. Do not read “no commercial floor” as “nothing posted”; on this node they mean different things, and the statewide 1.4% below-legal-loads rate does not change that.
What runs here
Stone out, produce past the door
So whatever you drive, the offer does not change — we buy all of them. The Wilson Quarry side of it puts dump trucks, aggregate haulers and mixers on these roads, with flatbeds serving the plant and day cabs running the loads out.
The country around is row-crop and orchard ground, so farm trucks and refrigerated trailers use the same roads on a different schedule altogether. Watsonville and Hollister carry pages of their own, and the quarry sits 1.57 miles from the middle of all of it.
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 Aromas
Aromas, Watsonville, Hollister and the country between them. Tell us what you have and we will take it from there.
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