The strait
A port handling two cargoes that share no equipment
This city sits on the Carquinez Strait inside the Bay Area refinery belt, and its port handles vehicles and petroleum products. Those are two trades that share a wharf and share nothing else.
Cars come off a ship and go out on car haulers and rollbacks. Fuel goes out in tankers, on a different schedule, under different rules, with a different inspection history behind the vehicle. A yard here can be running both in the same week.
That refinery is where our own records disagree
That belt is where we have to be careful. The entry for the yard here says plainly that the refinery’s current operator and status were not determined and names no operator. A separate entry, written for the Bay Area belt as a whole, records that the refinery in this city has shut and that Chevron Richmond is one of only two left in the region turning crude into gasoline.
Those two are in tension and we are not going to resolve them on a seller’s page. Both are recorded; what follows either way is that the fuel work around this strait has been changing, and a tanker sold here may have been doing something different two years ago.
What runs here
Between the water and the interstate
So whatever you drive, the offer does not change — we buy all of them. The port puts car haulers and tankers on these roads; the industrial park puts box trucks, straight trucks and flatbeds on them; day cabs run the short legs to the bridges.
Dump trucks cover the groundwork and pickups and work trucks are everywhere. Vallejo, Martinez and Suisun City carry pages of their own, and the same Carquinez Strait traffic works across all of them.
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 Benicia
Benicia, Vallejo, Martinez and the strait between them. Tell us what you have and we will take it from there.
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