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

FMCSA’s carrier census lists 40 active carriers based in Corte Madera, and 39 of them are registered for intrastate work against a single interstate operation. If your truck spent its years on California roads under one of those intrastate authorities, have the California registration card in the cab when you send us photos. That card and the title are the two papers the sale is built on.

Thirteen of the 40 operate as private fleets, by the same FMCSA census, meaning they haul their own goods rather than freight for hire. A truck coming out of a private fleet often has a shop file kept by the business that owned it; ask whoever ran that shop for the service records before the truck changes hands.

Two carriers here registered in 2024 and one more in 2025, according to the federal carrier census. If you are a newer operator closing out a first truck, the paperwork is the same as for anyone else: the title in the name of the person or company selling, the VIN, and a clear set of photos of the cab, frame and tires.

Seven Corte Madera carriers list general freight as cargo in FMCSA’s census, four list garbage and refuse, four list passengers and two list machinery and large objects. That spread covers box trucks and tractors, refuse packers, passenger vehicles and lowboys or flatbeds for heavy pieces, and we take all of those body styles.

For a refuse packer or a passenger vehicle, tell us the body make and the chassis make separately when you write in, and photograph the body controls along with the cab. A machinery hauler should come with a note of the trailer or deck it pulled, and whether that equipment is part of the sale or staying with you.

The biggest fleet based here runs 46 power units with 48 drivers on FMCSA’s census, followed by one with 20 power units and 10 drivers and a third with 9 units and 7 drivers. If you manage one of those and are retiring several units at once, send a list of VINs with the yard address for each, and the pickups can be planned as one job instead of separate calls.

Of the drivers working for carriers listed in Corte Madera, 87 stay within 100 miles of base and 27 go beyond it, per FMCSA’s carrier census. A short-radius truck is usually parked back at its home yard every night, so give us that yard’s address and the name of whoever holds the keys there.

Stone has come out of the San Rafael Rock Quarry, 4.7 miles north-east of Corte Madera, on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s register of crushed-stone sites. A dump truck or end-dump tractor that hauled stone from it can stay parked where it is; tell us whether it sits inside the quarry gate or at a lot outside, so the collection is arranged with whoever controls access.

Across the water, WEST CHEVRON YARD is 6.3 miles east and RICHMOND YARD is 7.2 miles east, both on the North American Rail Network kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. If your tractor worked rail transfers there and is parked on the Richmond side, there is no need to bring it back over the bridge to Marin; we collect from the East Bay address.

Two petroleum product terminals sit 6.5 and 7.4 miles east of Corte Madera in Richmond, on the Energy Information Administration’s list of fuel facilities. A tank truck or a tractor that pulled fuel trailers from those terminals should be described as either the tractor alone or the tractor with its tank, and the tank’s inspection paperwork belongs with the photos if the tank is included.

The Bureau of Transportation Statistics places the Point Potrero Marine Terminal, a roll-on/roll-off facility of the Port of Richmond, 7.8 miles east, with the port of Richmond itself at 8.2 miles and the San Francisco port 11.2 miles to the south-east. A day cab that moved containers or vehicles from those docks only needs its location and a gate contact from you; the pickup comes to it.

Corte Madera had 6,143 jobs in 2023, by the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts, with 106 of them in construction and 100 in wholesale trade. Contractors and wholesalers keep straight trucks and dump bodies on the books; if yours is titled to the business, have the officer who signs for the company ready to sign the title as well.

Sixteen construction firms have a place of business around Corte Madera in the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns tally. Across Marin County, USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 255 farms, with milk, cattle and horses the leading products, so livestock haulers and dairy trucks out on the ranches are part of what we collect here as well.

• My tractor is parked over in Richmond rather than Corte Madera; is that a problem for pickup?Richmond’s rail yards and fuel terminals sit between 6.3 and 7.4 miles east of Corte Madera on the North American Rail Network and Energy Information Administration lists, and we collect from that side of the bay. Send the yard address and the name of the person who can let us in.
• The title for my Corte Madera refuse truck has gone missing; where do I get a new one?Corte Madera trucks are titled through California’s state title agency, which issues a duplicate to the registered owner. Apply for that replacement before the sale, and tell us when you have applied so we know when the paper will be in hand.
• Do you take refuse trucks and passenger vehicles from Marin County?Four Corte Madera carriers list garbage and refuse and four list passengers in FMCSA’s carrier census, and both kinds of vehicle are ones we take. Send the chassis VIN, photos of the body and the cab, and the registration card.
• Our Marin business is retiring several trucks from one yard; can you collect them on one trip?With fleets based here as large as 46 power units on FMCSA’s census, multi-truck sales from one Corte Madera yard are routine for us. Send every VIN on a single list with the yard address, and one person’s contact for the gate.