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Byron · Contra Costa County · California

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Byron sits in the east of Contra Costa County with two sand and gravel operations just south-west of town, and the trucks registered here mostly haul inside California: FMCSA’s carrier census counts 59 intrastate carriers against 6 interstate ones.

Selling a truck in Byron? Tell us about it and we'll take it from there.

Byron’s sand and gravel neighbours

The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists the G3 Enterprises Byron Plant 1.7 miles south-west of town, a sand and gravel operation. A dump truck or end-dump tractor that hauls aggregate from there is the kind of equipment we collect, and it can stay parked at a yard on that side of Byron while we arrange the pickup. Tell us which Byron yard holds it and who can unlock the gravel lot.

Kellog Creek Aggregates Inc, another sand and gravel operation, sits 2.1 miles south-west according to the Mine Safety and Health Administration. If your truck splits its days between the two pits, say which one it is parked at when you write, and leave the registration card in the cab so the plate and VIN can be matched at collection.

Farther out, the Clayton Plant crushed-stone quarry appears in Mine Safety and Health Administration records 16.8 miles west. Trucks that run rock from Clayton back toward Byron often sit at a home yard rather than the quarry; tell us which, and photograph the cab, the bed and the VIN plate before we talk.

General freight, refuse and bulk loads from Byron

Sixty-five active carriers are on FMCSA’s carrier census for Byron, and general freight is the cargo 17 of them declare. The census then lists machinery and large objects with 5 carriers, garbage and refuse with 4, and dry bulk commodities with 3. A box truck, flatbed, roll-off or bulk hauler from any of those trades fits what we buy.

Private fleets, which haul their own goods rather than other people’s, number 14 in that same federal census. If your truck belongs to a farm, a contractor or a supply yard rather than a for-hire outfit, the title is likely in the business name; bring a letter or resolution showing who may sign for the company.

Fifteen Byron carriers gave FMCSA their annual mileage, and the midpoint truck among them logs 20,964 miles. The biggest local operator in the census lists 43 power units and 22 drivers, the next 18 units and 11 drivers. Selling one tractor out of a fleet that size works the same way as selling a single truck: one title, one VIN, one pickup address.

Whatever the year on your truck, put it in the first message along with make, model and VIN.

Just under a quarter of those Byron rigs, 23 percent by FMCSA’s roadside inspection tally, carried a model year a decade or more back. Older or newer, the documents we ask for do not change: the title, the current registration, and any service records you kept.

Jobs by the Delta

Construction and farm jobs around Byron

Of the 560 jobs located in Byron in 2023, construction held 81, or 14.5 percent, on the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts. Contractors winding down a dump truck or water truck can have us collect it from the job yard instead of driving it anywhere.

Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting accounted for 56 jobs, a tenth of the local total, in the same LEHD figures. Across Contra Costa County, USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 405 farms, with cattle, flower seeds and bulbs as the leading products. A stock hauler or farm truck parked at a ranch outside Byron can be collected where it stands; just give us directions to the gate.

Du Point to Stockton

Rail yards and terminals within reach

On the North American Rail Network, kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, DU POINT YARD lies 10.5 miles north-west of Byron and TRACY YARD 16.1 miles south-east. A drayage or flatbed tractor that shuttles between those yards can be picked up wherever it is parked between runs.

East toward Stockton, 17.4 miles out, the Energy Information Administration lists petroleum product terminals. Fuel and tank trucks working from there are welcome; note the trailer type in your message and whether the tractor and trailer are being sold together or apart.

Byron owners deal with the State of California Department of Motor Vehicles, and its nearest DMV field office is Tracy, at 2785 Auto Plaza Drive, Tracy, 95304, about 12.4 miles from town. If the title is missing, that office handles the duplicate application, and starting it before you call us keeps the sale moving.

When a lender still appears on the California title, ask the lender for its lien release and keep it with the title. The State of California Department of Motor Vehicles needs both for the transfer, and we will want to see them too.

Where California’s clean truck rules stand for Byron owners

Byron owners should know two things about Sacramento’s truck rules: the Advanced Clean Trucks Regulation is contested, while the Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation - Drayage Fleet Requirements and High Priority and Federal Fleets Requirements is gone, repealed outright. Byron owners weighing a sale can set those aside as reasons to rush.

A federal court filing in the Eastern District of California case shows enforcement paused on the zero-emission sales requirement for medium- and heavy-duty trucks. A diesel truck from Byron can be sold to us under its normal California title either way.

The questions we get asked in Byron

  • Our end-dump sits at the Kellog Creek pit outside Byron; does it have to come into town first?The G3 Enterprises Byron Plant and Kellog Creek Aggregates Inc are both within about 2 miles south-west of town on the Mine Safety and Health Administration list, and we collect from yards like those. Name the pit and the foreman who can let a driver past the scale.
  • The truck is titled to our Byron cattle operation rather than to me personally; how does that work?Byron’s 14 private fleets on FMCSA’s carrier census include farm and business trucks titled to a company. Have the person authorised to sign for the farm or company put their signature on the California title.

Sell your truck in Byron

Byron, in eastern Contra Costa County between the gravel pits to the south-west, the Tracy rail yard to the south-east and the Stockton terminals to the east, is somewhere we collect trucks from.