Sell your semi truck for cash in Bodega Bay the easy and convenient way

North of Bodega Bay, the Mine Safety and Health Administration records a crushed-stone quarry run by Diamond T Natural Resources, LLC at 10.3 miles, and a second one, Blue Rock Quarry, 11.9 miles out to the north-east. Rock from pits like those leaves on ten-wheel dumps, super dumps and transfer sets, and on tractors pulling end-dump or belly-dump trailers down the coast road. Those are the trucks we buy here.

If your truck hauled from either pit, send us a photo of the bed or trailer with the tailgate, the hoist and the tires in frame, along with the cab. Have the registration card and the title in hand when you call, and any scale tickets or weight slips you kept, since they say where the truck has been working without you having to describe it.

A truck that spent its years on the quarry roads does not need to come down into town for the sale. Tell us whether it is parked at your place, at the pit or at a yard in between, and whether a loader or a pickup will be in the way, and we plan the collection around that spot.

Bodega Bay has a sand and gravel pit to its east as well: Roblar Quarry LLC, which the Mine Safety and Health Administration records 12.4 miles from the harbor. Sand and gravel feed mixer trucks, dump trucks and the flatbeds that carry block and pipe to the jobs, so a mixer or a tandem dump with Roblar on its tickets is a usual truck for this stretch of coast.

County Business Patterns from the Census Bureau counts four construction establishments in Bodega Bay itself. Four firms is a short list, and the trucks behind them are the ones that sit at the contractor’s yard: a service truck with a crane, a dump with a pup, a tractor with a tilt-deck for the excavator. When one of those is leaving a fleet, we want the VIN, the odometer reading and a photo of the body before anything else.

For a contractor’s truck, keep the service records together with the title. If the title shows the business as owner, whoever signs for the business should be the one on the call, and the registration card should match the name on the title before we arrive.

The Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts put 543 jobs inside Bodega Bay in 2023, and lists no single sector for them. A town that size does not hold a freight terminal, so the trucks here are owned one or two at a time: a fisherman’s flatbed, a dairy’s tanker, a quarry hauler kept at the house.

That changes where the truck is when we buy it. In Bodega Bay it is usually in a driveway, on a gravel pad beside the house or at the harbor, not on a terminal lot with a gate code. Give us the street and a landmark, say whether the road in is paved, and tell us if the truck can be reached without moving a boat trailer first.

Owner-operators selling one truck should gather the same three things a fleet would: the title, the current registration and the last annual inspection sticker or report. Photos of the dash with the odometer showing and of each side of the truck finish the set.

Around Bodega Bay, USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 3,097 farms in Sonoma County, with milk, cattle and cut flowers and cut cultivated greens as the county’s leading products. Milk goes out in insulated tankers on a daily route, cattle move on gooseneck and semi stock trailers, and flowers and greens ride in reefer vans, so the tractors that pull those three trailers are the farm trucks we see here.

A dairy tanker tractor keeps a daily route, and a seller often wants the sale handled while the replacement is already on it. We buy the tractor on its own or with the tanker; tell us which when you first write, and send the tank’s last wash-out or inspection record if you have it.

Stock-trailer and reefer tractors are the same sale: the title, the registration, a photo of the fifth wheel and the rear tires, and the location of the truck. If the truck lives at the ranch rather than in town, say how far up the ranch road it is and whether the gate is locked.

A California truck title is transferred through the State of California Department of Motor Vehicles, and the DMV field office nearest Bodega Bay is Santa Rosa, at 2570 Corby Ave, Santa Rosa, 95407, 18 miles from town. A seller who has the title does not need to go there for us; the signed title and the registration card are enough for the sale.

A seller who cannot find the title goes to that Santa Rosa DMV field office for a replacement before the sale, since the State of California Department of Motor Vehicles is the agency that issues California titles. Check the odometer reading written on the title against the dash before you sign anything, and leave the new-owner lines blank for us.

If there is a lienholder listed on the title, have the lien release letter with it. A title in a company name needs the signature of someone who can sign for that company, and a truck registered in another state is sold on that state’s title, with the same records otherwise.

Three California rules touch a heavy truck sold in Bodega Bay. The Advanced Clean Trucks Regulation is contested, with the California Air Resources Board having approved amendments to it. The state’s requirement that medium- and heavy-duty truck sales be fully zero-emission from 2036 has its enforcement paused, under a federal court order out of the Eastern District of California. The drayage and high-priority fleet parts of the Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation have been repealed.

None of that stops the sale of a diesel truck here. A Bodega Bay owner selling a dump, a tanker or a day cab sells it on the title and the registration, and the rules above are about new sales and fleet purchases, not about an owner handing over a used truck. If your fleet reported under any of them, keep those filings with the truck’s records so the next owner has them.

• My dump truck is parked at the pit north of town, not at my house. Does the sale still work from the quarry yard?The Mine Safety and Health Administration places the two crushed-stone quarries 10.3 and 11.9 miles north and north-east of Bodega Bay, and we collect at either one. Tell us whose yard the truck is on and who can let us through the gate, and we arrange it with them.
• I lost the title to my milk tanker. Which DMV office near Bodega Bay issues a new one?The Santa Rosa DMV field office at 2570 Corby Ave, 18 miles from Bodega Bay, is the nearest State of California Department of Motor Vehicles office, and it is where a California title is replaced. Bring your registration card and photo ID, and tell us when the new title is in hand.
• The truck is in the dairy’s name, not mine. Can the dairy still sell it to you?Sonoma County’s farms are counted at 3,097 by USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, with milk as the leading product, so a tanker in a dairy’s name is a common sale here. The person who can sign for the dairy signs the title, and the registration card and the lien release, if there is one, come with it.
• Do the state’s clean-truck rules stop me selling a diesel truck in Bodega Bay?The Advanced Clean Trucks Regulation is contested, the 2036 zero-emission sales requirement has its enforcement paused and the drayage and high-priority fleet parts of the Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation have been repealed, and none of the three bars an owner from selling a used diesel truck. The sale goes on the title and the registration as it always has.