A label on the wrong peninsula
One row filed here names a base across the bay
Three rows in our data share this city’s label and one of them is Naval Base Point Loma, resolving 5.84 miles away. Point Loma and this peninsula are different places on opposite sides of San Diego Bay — near each other as the gull flies and nothing like near by road.
The other two sit much closer: an amphibious base row at 0.34 miles and a row named South Point at 4.93. All three resolutions are arithmetically defensible, which is exactly the problem: nothing in the arithmetic knows that a bay is in the way.
That distinction matters more here than it would inland
That water changes what a short distance means. A few miles across to Point Loma is a long way around the bay, so a page that treated all three rows as local to one another would be describing a geography that does not exist on the ground.
It also matters for collecting a truck. San Diego County is large and this end of it is a peninsula, so telling us where the vehicle actually sits saves a wasted trip — and if it is inside a gate, that is worth saying at the start rather than on the day.
What runs here
A base community and a small city, and the trucks follow that
So whatever you drive, the offer does not change — we buy all of them. On a peninsula like this the mix leans to pickups and work trucks, because that is what people own, with box trucks and straight trucks on delivery and service rounds and flatbeds and day cabs on the contracting side.
Dump trucks turn up wherever there is groundwork. Imperial Beach, National City and San Diego all carry pages of their own, and if the truck actually lives on the far side of the bay that is the page to read — though it makes no difference to the offer.
California weight law
The weight table here is not the federal one
That is state law rather than anything local, and it is the rule truck sellers misquote most often. CVC sections 35550 to 35558 set a statutory range of 34,000 to 80,000 lb by axle count and spacing, and § 35551(a) is a table rather than the federal Bridge Formula — no formula is declared in the statute at all.
The California table does not exactly match the Federal Bridge Table, including at three and four axles. So a configuration that is legal under one can be over under the other, and “it makes bridge formula” is a claim about which table you mean. If someone has told you your truck makes it, that is worth knowing before you repeat it.
Questions we actually get
The four that come up every time
Does it have to run? No. But we buy complete trucks — if the engine, transmission, doors, rear ends, drive shafts, wheels or anything under the hood have been removed, we can’t buy it. A missing bumper is nothing.
Do I need the title? We need a title, unless the truck is old enough that it never had one. If it is lost, that is a replacement through the DMV and we will walk you through it. If there is a lien on it, say so on the form — that is why the question asks whether the title is in hand rather than whether you own the truck, because those are different situations and they go different ways.
What if it has been in a wreck? Tell us what happened and we will look at it as it is. California sets no percentage: CVC § 544 makes it a judgement about whether repair is economical, so nothing is decided by a formula before we have seen the truck.
How does it get collected, and how am I paid? There is no clock on any of this. We come to you and drive it away, we come to you and tow it, we buy it remotely and arrange the tow, or you drive it to us. Payment is cash or electronic payment.
Sell your truck in Coronado
Coronado, Imperial Beach and the bay around them. Tell us what you have and we will take it from there.
Sell My Truck