A correction, first
A port row filed here belongs to the city up the road
A row named for the Port of San Francisco resolves by nearest centroid to this city, 5.64 miles off and in San Mateo County, even though San Francisco carries a page of its own. This is a small bayside city, not a port authority.
We say it first because the alternative is a page claiming a major container and cruise port that is plainly somewhere else, and anyone reading it here would know immediately that we had not looked.
That same port is filed wrongly twice, in two different directions
That mistake has a twin. A separate layer of the same data puts the same port at Sausalito rather than here in San Mateo County, 6.16 miles away on the other side of the bay entirely. One port, two layers, two different wrong answers — and the recorded fix was applied to only one of them.
It is a good illustration of why this lane reads rows rather than counting them. Two independent resolutions agreeing would be evidence; two independent resolutions disagreeing is a warning, and the warning is the useful part.
What runs here
An industrial strip between a hill and the bay
So whatever you drive, the offer does not change — we buy all of them. What this city actually puts on the road is distribution and service work: box trucks and straight trucks out of the industrial strip, flatbeds and day cabs between yards, and dump trucks where there is groundwork.
Pickups and work trucks are everywhere, and a light truck here has usually had stop-start peninsula miles rather than long steady ones. South San Francisco, Daly City and San Bruno carry pages of their own.
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 Brisbane
Brisbane, South San Francisco, Daly City and the top of the peninsula. Tell us what you have and we will take it from there.
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