One yard, filed twice
Two rows a mile apart, in two counties, are one facility
Two rows named La Mirada Yard lie 0.81 miles apart under the same carrier, one recorded in Orange County and one in Los Angeles County. On the pattern established across all 2,459 rail-yard rows, they are one yard whose track polyline was split at the county line.
The differing county is a symptom of that split rather than evidence of two facilities. A page counting rows would report two yards where there is one, which is the kind of error that compounds quietly across a whole state.
That yard is one our data cannot describe at all
Beyond the split, no facility-level source was found for the La Mirada Yard rows or the other basin satellite yards — no operator statement, no commodity list, no traffic figure. What our record holds is corridor-level and metropolitan rather than specific to any gate.
The corridor those lines feed averaged 31 trains per day in the first quarter of 2024 against capacity for more than 150 train trips a day. That is a fact about the Alameda Corridor and not about this yard, and we are labelling it as such rather than letting it stand in for one.
What runs here
North Orange County works for a living
So whatever you drive, the offer does not change — we buy all of them. This end of Orange County runs on distribution and service work: box trucks and straight trucks on delivery rounds, day cabs between warehouses, flatbeds on the contracting side, dump trucks on groundwork.
Pickups and work trucks are everywhere. La Mirada, Fullerton and Cerritos carry pages of their own, and the same working traffic crosses the county line all day without anyone noticing it.
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 Buena Park
Buena Park, La Mirada, Fullerton and north Orange County. Tell us what you have and we will take it from there.
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