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Cambria · San Luis Obispo County · California

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

Cambria sits on the San Luis Obispo County coast with a gravel pit just inland, quarries up the hills behind it and a small set of locally based carriers that keep freight, passengers and refuse moving along this stretch of shoreline.

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

Gravel and stone in the hills behind town

Bianchi Pit, which the Mine Safety and Health Administration records as a sand and gravel operation, lies just 2.7 miles inland and north-east of Cambria’s coast. If your dump truck or end-dump hauled out of that pit, give us the yard address and the name of whoever holds the gate key.

Further up the slope, Blue Mountain Minerals PR LLC runs a crushed-stone quarry 9.6 miles north-east, by the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s count. Whale Rock Quarry, another crushed-stone site, is 14.3 miles south-east according to Mine Safety and Health Administration records. If your truck worked between those quarries and job sites, photograph the bed, the cab and the VIN plate, and tell us which site it last ran from.

Thirty on file

Thirty small operators along this coast

Of the 30 active Cambria carriers in FMCSA’s carrier census, a lone one is registered to cross state lines while the other 29 stay intrastate. A truck that has stayed inside California carries a California title and registration, so have both to hand before we talk.

Private fleets, which haul their own goods rather than for hire, account for 13 of those carriers in the federal motor carrier census. A contractor, grower or utility selling a truck it bought for its own work should have the title in the business name and someone able to sign for the company.

In FMCSA’s carrier census, one Cambria fleet runs 19 power units with 5 drivers, another 6 units with 5 drivers and a third 2 units with 2 drivers. Selling several trucks at once from a yard on the coast is a single conversation; send a list of VINs and where each truck sits.

Loads on the coast

Freight, passengers, farm supplies and refuse

General freight is the cargo listed by 7 Cambria carriers in FMCSA’s census, with passengers named by 3. A box truck, straight truck or bus that has served this stretch of coast is a vehicle we collect; bring the registration and any service records you have kept.

Two local carriers list farm supplies and two list garbage, refuse and trash, again per the federal carrier census. Refuse trucks and farm haulers are often kept at a transfer site or ranch rather than a driveway, so tell us the road access and whether a tow vehicle can reach the truck where it stands.

Radius of work

Short-haul and longer routes from the coast

Drivers working within 100 miles of base number 35 in FMCSA’s carrier census for Cambria, while 23 are recorded as going beyond that radius. A truck kept on local routes is usually parked near town; one on longer runs may be somewhere along its route, and we collect it wherever it is.

Camp Roberts, a military installation listed by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, lies 23.3 miles north-east. If your truck is stored on the inland side of the hills toward the base, give us the exact location and any access rules so collection can be arranged with whoever controls the gate.

Jobs, builders and county ranches

Of Cambria’s 1,838 jobs in 2023, the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts place 111 in construction, a 6 percent share, and 75 in manufacturing, a 4.1 percent share. Builders’ trucks such as flatbeds, dumps and stake beds are part of what we purchase; have the title and a set of photos ready before you call.

Cambria has 17 construction establishments on the books of the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns, each a possible home for a work truck. Across San Luis Obispo County, USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 2,184 farms, with propagative material, cattle and transplants at the top of the list. A livestock hauler or nursery truck kept on a ranch can be collected there; tell us the ranch road and any gate code.

Clean-fleet rules for a Cambria owner

The California Air Resources Board’s rulemaking page records the Advanced Clean Fleets drayage, high-priority and federal fleet requirements as repealed. Enforcement of the 2036 zero-emission medium- and heavy-duty sales requirement is paused, per a federal court filing in the Eastern District of California, and the board’s Advanced Clean Trucks Regulation is contested.

For a seller in Cambria, whether on the coast or up in the hills, the papers we ask for stay the same: a title, a current registration and a handful of clear photos. If the title is lost, California’s title agency issues a duplicate, and starting that request before we arrange collection keeps the sale moving.

The questions we get asked in Cambria

  • Our end-dump is still sitting at Bianchi Pit; will you pick it up from there?Bianchi Pit sits 2.7 miles north-east of town by the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s listing, and we collect from sites like it. Tell us who runs the yard so the visit is arranged with them.
  • Will you collect a truck kept over by Camp Roberts, past the hills from Cambria?Camp Roberts is 23.3 miles north-east of Cambria according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, well within reach. Give us the address and any access rules for the property.

Sell your truck in Cambria

From the Bianchi Pit gravel to Whale Rock Quarry and the ranch roads toward Camp Roberts, we collect trucks across Cambria and the San Luis Obispo County coast.