Granite, crushed rock and gravel around Coarsegold
Sierra White, a dimension-stone quarry, lies 9.5 miles west of town according to the Mine Safety and Health Administration. Trucks that move cut granite blocks off a quarry floor tend to be heavy-spec tractors or flatbed straight trucks, and if yours is one of them, a photo of the deck and the tie-down points helps us understand how it was set up.
Austin Quarry, a crushed-stone operation, sits 18 miles to the south-west, and the Rockfield Plant, a sand and gravel site, is 21.4 miles south; the Mine Safety and Health Administration lists both. A dump truck or end-dump trailer that ran between those pits and job sites can stay parked wherever it last worked. Send us the yard address and the name of whoever holds the gate key, and we arrange collection there.
Rock haulers often carry scale tickets and site passes in the cab. Keep any you still have together with the title; they show which quarry roads the truck used.
Seventy carriers based in a foothill town
For a place this size, that means a good share of trucks here belong to an owner-operator or a household with one or two power units, and the person selling is often the person who drove it.
Of those 70, the federal carrier census counts 28 hauling general freight, 8 carrying logs, poles, beams and lumber, 6 moving machinery and large objects, and 6 hauling fresh produce. Log trailers, lowboys, reefers and dry vans all come out of that mix, and we buy the tractor, the trailer or both together.
If your rig hauled lumber off the mountain, tell us whether the log bunks and stakes stay with the trailer. If it pulled a lowboy for equipment, say what ramps and winch go with it, so the listing we work from matches what is actually parked in your yard.
Mostly in-state routes out of Madera County
Sixty-one of Coarsegold’s carriers run intrastate only and 9 cross state lines, per FMCSA’s carrier census, and 20 operate as private fleets hauling their own goods. A private-fleet truck belongs to a business that is not a for-hire carrier, so the seller may be a contractor, a rancher or a builder rather than a trucking company.
Eleven carriers here reported annual mileage, and the median among them was 9,556 miles per truck, as the FMCSA census records it. Have the current odometer reading and the VIN on hand when you call; those two numbers start every conversation we have about a truck.
An intrastate-only carrier usually holds California plates and a state registration card in the cab. Photograph the registration along with the title so the names on both can be checked against each other before pickup.
From single trucks to an eighteen-unit operation
The biggest fleet registered in Coarsegold lists 18 power units and 25 drivers, while the next two each run 6 power units, according to FMCSA’s carrier census. Whether you are selling one truck or several, we handle each one with its own title and its own pickup location.
A fleet thinning out its units can give us a list with VINs, unit numbers and where each truck is parked. That lets us plan collection across Madera County without you having to stage every truck in one lot.
New registrations have picked up too: FMCSA’s carrier census shows 6 new carriers in 2025, after 2 in 2024. A new carrier selling a truck it bought recently should have the bill of sale and the title transfer paperwork in one folder.
Dairy, cattle and corn in the county
USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 1,255 farms in Madera County, with milk, cattle and corn as its leading products. Feed trucks, livestock haulers, bulk tankers and farm-plated straight trucks all work that ground, and many are parked on ranch property rather than in a yard.
If your truck sits on a ranch outside Coarsegold, a pin on a map and directions past the cattle guard are more useful to us than a street address. Tell us whether the road in will take a tow truck in wet weather.
Many of the trucks here belong to people who also work another trade, so pick a time to talk when you have the paperwork in front of you.
Bring the title in the name of the seller, the current registration, and any service records you have kept. If the title is lost, request a duplicate from the state’s title agency before we schedule collection, since the sale cannot close without it.
Photos of the cab, the frame, the tires and any trailer or body help us see the truck the way you know it. Send them with the VIN, and note where in or around Coarsegold the truck is parked.