Rock trucks bound for Blue Mountain Minerals, west of the ridge
Blue Mountain Minerals, a crushed-stone quarry listed by the Mine Safety and Health Administration, lies about 8.1 miles west of Cedar Ridge. A tandem dump or a belly-dump tractor that has spent its shifts hauling rock out of that pit is welcome here, and we can collect it at the quarry yard, at a contractor’s lot along the way, or in your own driveway on the ridge.
If the truck is still parked on quarry ground, tell us who controls the gate and what hours the site keeps. Send a few photos of the body, the cab and the plate along with the VIN, and say whether the dump bed or trailer goes with the tractor or stays behind with the operation.
Toward the south-west
Hauling aggregate to and from Sierra Rock Products
On the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list, Sierra Rock Products is another crushed-stone quarry, roughly 13.2 miles south-west of town. Owners in Cedar Ridge who hauled aggregate between the two quarries and job sites around the county can sell the truck without driving it anywhere first.
Give us the exact address where it sits, whether a loaded or empty trailer is hitched to it, and the name of anyone at Sierra Rock or the job site we should call on arrival. A clear route in for a tow or a driver is the single most useful thing to tell us about a truck parked in the hills.
The Sonora DMV office, 7.7 miles from the ridge
Titles in California go through the State of California Department of Motor Vehicles, and its nearest DMV field office to Cedar Ridge is the Sonora office at 885 Morning Star Drive, Sonora, 95370, about 7.7 miles away. Bring the signed title to the sale, with the registration card if you still have it.
When the title has gone missing, the Sonora field office is where a Cedar Ridge owner applies for a duplicate from the State of California Department of Motor Vehicles. Tell us at the start if a lender is still on the title or a duplicate is in the works, and keep any service records together with the paperwork so everything changes hands at once.
Foothill stock
Cattle, horses and goats on the foothill ranches
Around Cedar Ridge, USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 326 farms in Tuolumne County, and cattle, equine and goats lead the list of what they raise. Stock trucks, flatbeds that carry hay, and tractors that pull livestock or horse trailers are all trucks we take off a ranch.
A ranch truck often sits in a barn or out in a pasture rather than on pavement. Tell us whether the ground is dry enough for a tow truck to reach it, send photos taken in daylight, and say whether a trailer or stock rack is part of the sale or stays on the property.
Where the state’s clean-truck rules stand for Cedar Ridge owners
Per the California Air Resources Board, the Advanced Clean Trucks Regulation is contested. For the state’s requirement that all new medium- and heavy-duty truck sales be zero-emission, a federal court ruling has put enforcement on hold.
Repeal is the current status of the Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation - Drayage Fleet Requirements and High Priority and Federal Fleets Requirements, the California Air Resources Board reports. A diesel truck from a Cedar Ridge quarry or ranch can be sold to us whichever way these rules go; just give us the engine model year from the door sticker or the engine tag.
The questions we get asked in Cedar Ridge
- The dump truck I run to Blue Mountain Minerals is parked at the quarry, so can your driver meet it there?Blue Mountain Minerals sits about 8.1 miles west of town on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list, and we collect from quarry yards like it. Tell us who can open the gate and when, and we arrange the visit with them.
- My title went missing; is the Sonora field office the place for a Cedar Ridge owner to get a duplicate?The Sonora DMV field office, at 885 Morning Star Drive about 7.7 miles from town, handles duplicate titles for the State of California Department of Motor Vehicles. Let us know when you apply, and we can line up the sale around it.
- I keep cattle near Cedar Ridge and want to sell the stock truck that hauls them, so would you buy it off the ranch?Cattle, equine and goats top the list for Tuolumne County’s 326 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, and the stock trucks that serve them are trucks we buy. Send photos and the location, and we come out to the ranch.