Granite pits
Academy Black, Rockfield and the stone sites past them
The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists Academy Black, a dimension-stone quarry, 14.1 miles south of Auberry, and the Rockfield Plant, a sand and gravel operation, 19.1 miles to the south-west. A dump truck or flatbed that has hauled block or aggregate from either site can be collected from the yard where it now stands. Send us the quarry name, the gate contact and photos of the bed and frame so the collection is planned around that site’s access rules.
Further out, the Austin Quarry crushes stone 23.1 miles west of town and Sierra White cuts dimension stone 24.9 miles west, with the Sanger Plant’s sand and gravel pit 25 miles south, all on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s mine list. If your truck is parked at one of those pits rather than at home in Auberry, give us that address instead. Have the title and the most recent registration card in the cab or in your hand when we arrive.
Foothill cargo
Timber, machinery and general freight carriers
Of the 92 active carriers on FMCSA’s carrier census for Auberry, 29 list general freight, 12 haul logs, poles, beams and lumber, 10 move machinery and large objects, and 7 carry farm supplies. A log truck with its bunks and stakes, or a lowboy tractor that has moved equipment, is the kind of unit we collect here. Tell us what the truck was set up to pull, and list any trailer you want to sell along with it.
Federal records from FMCSA show 84 of these carriers running intrastate only, 7 authorised for interstate work, and 37 operating as private fleets that haul their own goods. If your truck carried freight for your own business rather than for hire, the paperwork we ask for is the same: title, registration and, where you have them, service records. A private-fleet owner selling one unit out of several can name which truck and where it is parked.
Yards of every scale
Owner-operators and the larger yards
The three biggest operations based in Auberry, per FMCSA’s carrier census, run 36, 16 and 13 power units, with 22, 5 and 19 drivers on file. Selling several trucks from one yard is a single conversation: send the VIN for each unit, a photo set for each, and one contact who can open the gate on the day.
New registrations on FMCSA’s carrier census added 5 Auberry carriers in 2025 and 4 in 2024. If you started hauling recently and the truck is still titled to a lender, tell us the lienholder’s name at the start; the title must be released before the sale closes, and knowing who holds it lets us ask the right questions early.
Valley and beyond
Local runs and longer hauls from the foothills
Driver counts on FMCSA’s carrier census put 86 drivers working within 100 miles of their base and 121 going beyond it. A truck that runs the valley floor and comes home each night is most likely parked in Auberry when we collect; one on longer runs may be easier to meet where it ends its last load. Give us the location where the truck will actually be.
Ten Auberry carriers report yearly mileage to FMCSA, and the middle figure among their trucks is 9,250 miles. Note the current odometer reading when you contact us, and photograph the dash with the ignition on so the reading and the VIN plate are both on record.
Sierra site work
Site crews in Auberry, dairies and cattle across Fresno County
The Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts (LODES) for 2023 record 531 jobs in Auberry, with construction holding 76 of them, or 14.3 percent. Those builders work out of 36 construction firms in Auberry, a count the Census Bureau publishes in County Business Patterns alongside its job figures for the foothill town. Dump trucks, water trucks and equipment haulers from site work are trucks we collect; photos of any body, crane or hoist on the chassis help us identify the unit.
Across Fresno County, USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 4,427 farms, with cattle, milk and cotton heading the list. A cattle hauler, feed truck or bulk unit that has worked those farms can be collected from the ranch or dairy where it sits; tell us whether the access road suits a tow vehicle and whether anyone needs to unlock a gate.
Getting a foothill truck title ready to sign
California titles are issued by the state’s title agency, and the truck’s title should be signed by every owner named on it. If the title is lost, request a duplicate from the state’s title agency before the sale, or tell us so we can explain what that office will need from you.
Keep the current registration, any inspection reports and the service records together with the title. If the truck belongs to a business registered with FMCSA, have the company name on the title match the carrier record, so the transfer reads cleanly from start to end.
The questions we get asked in Auberry
- Academy Black has my dump truck in its yard south of town; does it have to come to Auberry first?Academy Black sits 14.1 miles south of Auberry on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list, and Rockfield Plant 19.1 miles south-west; we collect from the quarry yard itself. Name the pit and whoever holds the key to its gate on the day.
- Do you take log trucks from the Sierra foothills?Twelve Auberry carriers on FMCSA’s carrier census haul logs, poles, beams and lumber, and their trucks are among those we collect. Send photos of the tractor and the bunks, and tell us if the trailer is part of the sale.
- A foothill rig with no title in the glovebox: who reissues it for a California truck?A truck registered in California gets its duplicate title from the state’s title agency. Start that request before the sale, and keep the registration card handy since it carries the VIN and owner details the office asks for.
- Can you collect several trucks from one Auberry yard?FMCSA’s carrier census shows Auberry operations running as many as 36 power units, so multi-truck yards are part of the work here. List each VIN and where each unit is parked, and one visit can cover them.