Sell your semi truck for cash in Ben Lomond the easy and convenient way

The Mine Safety and Health Administration places the Quail Hollow Operation, a sand and gravel site, 1.6 miles east of Ben Lomond. A dump truck or end-dump that loads there may well be parked on the site itself, so send us the gate details and the name of whoever can let us in.

Felton Quarry, a crushed-stone quarry, lies 3.1 miles south according to Mine Safety and Health Administration records, and Olive Springs Quarry Inc is 9.1 miles east. If your truck hauled rock from either one, photograph the bed, the cab and the VIN plate in daylight and keep the title in the glovebox file, ready for pickup.

FMCSA’s carrier census lists 32 active motor carriers based in Ben Lomond; 31 of them operate intrastate, 1 crosses state lines, and 7 run private fleets carrying their own goods. Most sellers here are a single owner or a family outfit, so the person who signs the title is usually the person we talk to from the first call.

Among those 32, the census records 6 hauling general freight, 2 in dry bulk commodities, 2 carrying passengers and 2 in utility work. A bucket truck, a shuttle bus or a bulk hauler from this town all count, so tell us the body type along with the make and model year.

Fleet sizes on the same FMCSA census are modest: the three biggest operators here run 13, 10 and 2 power units, with 9, 9 and 2 drivers. Selling several units at once from one of those yards is fine; list each VIN and where each one sits, and we plan one visit around them.

Census Bureau LEHD job counts for 2023 show 820 jobs located in Ben Lomond, and 89 of them, or 10.9 percent, are in construction. Contractors who own a flatbed, a dump or a utility body can sell it while it is still parked at the jobsite or behind the shop.

Ben Lomond has 28 construction establishments on the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns, each a possible owner of a flatbed or dump body. If the truck is titled to one of those businesses rather than to you personally, have the company officer who can sign for it available, along with the registration card.

USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 614 farms in Santa Cruz County, and its top products are propagative material, potted flowering plants, and cut flowers with cultivated greens. Box trucks and stake beds that move nursery stock between greenhouses fit what we collect.

For a grower selling a farm truck, the title, the current registration and any service log are the three papers to gather; a few photos of the box or stake body round out what we need before arranging collection at the farm.

Tamien Yard sits 19.5 miles north-east of Ben Lomond and San Jose Yard 20.1 miles out in that same direction, both on the North American Rail Network mapped by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. A tractor that has run drayage over the hill to those yards can be sold from where it is parked in Ben Lomond.

Two petroleum product terminals, San Jose Terminal at 22.7 miles and San Jose at 23.7 miles, appear in Energy Information Administration listings north-east of town. If your tanker served them, gather any tank inspection certificates you hold and keep them with the title.

The California Air Resources Board has repealed the drayage and high-priority fleet parts of its Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation, and its Advanced Clean Trucks Regulation is contested. A federal court filing in the Eastern District of California has put enforcement on hold for CARB’s zero-emission sales requirement covering medium- and heavy-duty trucks.

None of that changes what a seller in Ben Lomond needs to hand over: a clear title, the registration, and the keys. If the title has gone missing, start a replacement with the state’s title agency before we schedule the visit.

• Will you pick up a dump truck left at the Quail Hollow sand and gravel site near Ben Lomond?Quail Hollow Operation is 1.6 miles east of Ben Lomond on Mine Safety and Health Administration records, and that is close enough for us to come to the truck. Send us the Quail Hollow site contact plus the times someone can unlock the gate for our driver.
• Does a Ben Lomond truck that has only worked inside California fit what you buy?Of the 32 carriers on FMCSA’s census in Ben Lomond, 31 operate intrastate only, so a truck that never left California is the usual case here. Put the California title and current registration together for the pickup.
• Who signs the title when a Ben Lomond contracting business owns the truck?Construction accounts for 89 of the 820 Ben Lomond jobs in Census Bureau LEHD counts for 2023, and many of those trucks are titled to a business. Whoever is authorized to sign for the company signs the title, and we need their name and contact.