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

Cathedral City is home base to 373 active trucking carriers, a tally drawn from FMCSA’s carrier census. If one of those trucks is yours, start with the VIN, the California registration and the name on the title; with those three in hand we can confirm the truck before anything else is discussed.

Of those carriers, 338 run intrastate only and 33 cross state lines, according to the same FMCSA census, while 55 are private fleets hauling their own goods. A truck that has stayed inside California needs only its California paperwork; one with interstate authority should come with its USDOT number noted so we can match the records.

The three biggest local fleets on the FMCSA register run 17, 17 and 10 power units. Most operators here are far smaller, so a single tractor or one work truck parked beside a house in Cathedral City is a normal sale for us, and we collect it from that driveway.

General freight is the cargo listed by 79 Cathedral City carriers in FMCSA’s census, ahead of every other class. Day cabs, straight trucks and dry vans fit that work; photograph the cab, the frame rails, the tires and the van or bed so the pictures cover the whole unit.

Fifteen local carriers declare garbage, refuse and trash as cargo, the FMCSA census shows, and 14 haul motor vehicles. Roll-off, rear-loader and car-carrier bodies are part of the truck we pick up, so tell us the body make and any hydraulic equipment fitted when you first get in touch.

Thirteen carriers list household goods with FMCSA. A moving van that spends its days between homes in Cathedral City, Palm Springs and Rancho Mirage is often parked at a residence or a small yard; send the street address and a note on gate access so the collection can be planned to suit.

The Mine Safety and Health Administration records Thousand Palms Pit, a sand and gravel operation 3.4 miles east of Cathedral City. Dump trucks and transfer trucks that load at a pit this close often stay parked on site between shifts, so if yours is there, give us the pit address and the name of the person who can let our driver in.

Painted Hills Quarry, another sand and gravel site, lies 12.5 miles north-west of town on MSHA’s register. There is no need to bring the dump truck into Cathedral City; leave it at the quarry yard and tell us where on the property it sits.

Of 10,832 jobs sited inside Cathedral City in 2023, the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts place 1,762 in construction, a 16.3 percent slice of local work. Contractors’ dump trucks, flatbeds and service bodies are trucks we buy, and a fleet ledger or service log is useful to send along with the title if you kept one.

Around the valley, 131 construction businesses operate, per the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns, and plenty of them keep a dump truck or two. If your company is winding down a few units at once, list each VIN with its plate number so every truck can be matched to its own title.

The same LEHD figures put 243 jobs in wholesale trade, 110 in transportation and warehousing and 50 in manufacturing. Delivery trucks from distributors in the valley fit here too; have the registration card and the most recent inspection report ready when we ask.

Roadside inspectors stopped 90 trucks belonging to Cathedral City carriers from September 2024 through August 2026, and FMCSA roadside inspection records put the median model year of that group at 2019. A quarter-plus of them, 25.6 percent in FMCSA’s roadside inspection records, carried model years a decade or more back. Read the year off your California title and quote that figure when you reach us.

Thirty-seven local carriers reported mileage to FMCSA’s carrier census, and the median among them was 10,000 miles per truck. Read the odometer and photograph it before you contact us, since that reading and the VIN are the first two things we ask for.

FMCSA’s census shows 7 new carriers registering here in 2024 and 5 in 2025. If you started a carrier recently and are closing it, keep the USDOT number and the title together; if the title is lost, the California DMV handles the duplicate before the sale.

USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 2,424 farms in Riverside County, with milk, mushrooms and cotton listed as the top products. A farm truck parked on a ranch or a dairy outside Cathedral City can be collected right where it is.

Agricultural trucks are sometimes registered under a farm or ranch business name rather than a person’s name. Check that the name on the title matches whoever is signing, and if the farm entity has changed hands, bring the paperwork that shows who holds it now.

• Our dump truck sits at the Thousand Palms sand and gravel pit east of town; can it stay put for collection?The Mine Safety and Health Administration places Thousand Palms Pit 3.4 miles east of the city, and the truck can stay right there at the pit for us to collect. Give us the site contact who can open the gate.
• Would you buy a refuse packer from a small Coachella Valley trash hauler?FMCSA’s carrier census lists 15 Cathedral City carriers hauling garbage, refuse and trash, and a packer from any of them is a truck we would buy. Send the VIN, the body type and photos of the packer.
• Where does a Cathedral City owner go when a truck title has gone missing?The California DMV issues duplicate titles. Apply there for the replacement, and tell us it is under way so we can line up the rest of the sale.