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

Just 1.5 miles west of Cotati, Soiland Co., Inc. works a crushed-stone quarry recorded by the Mine Safety and Health Administration. A dump truck or transfer rig that hauls out of that pit may well be parked in a yard near the quarry gate rather than at a home address, so give us the exact spot and the name of whoever controls access to it.

Roblar Quarry LLC, a sand and gravel operation, sits 5.1 miles west of town on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list, and Blue Rock Quarry, another crushed-stone site, lies 14.9 miles to the north-west. If your truck has been loading aggregate at Roblar or Blue Rock, send photos of the bed, the hoist and the cab, plus the VIN, so we know which body and chassis we are collecting.

Further out, the Mine Safety and Health Administration places Napa Quarry, an industrial-mineral mine, 24 miles east. A truck kept over in the Napa side of the hills can be sold from Cotati; you tell us where it stands and we arrange collection there.

Cotati is home base for 114 active carriers, a tally drawn from FMCSA’s carrier census, whether hauling for hire or carrying their own goods. The same FMCSA census shows 110 running intrastate only and 4 crossing state lines, while 34 are private fleets hauling their own goods rather than freight for hire.

Cargo listings in the federal carrier census put general freight first with 27 carriers, followed by farm supplies, logs and lumber, and metal sheets and coils at 7 carriers each. Whichever of those your truck carried, have the title in the registered owner’s name and the current California registration card ready before we talk.

FMCSA’s carrier census lists Cotati fleets with 30, 12 and 11 power units at the upper end. If you are selling several units from one of those yards, list each VIN with the location of every truck so the collections can be grouped.

Drivers here mostly stay close to home: FMCSA’s carrier census records 238 drivers working within 100 miles and 105 working beyond that radius. For a short-haul truck, the yard or jobsite where it spends its nights is usually where we will pick it up.

Among 22 Cotati carriers that report mileage to the carrier census, the median is 8,500 miles per truck. Note the odometer reading when you send photos, and include any service records you have kept; with those two items in hand, we can start the paperwork.

New registrations continue in the census as well, with 5 carriers starting up in 2025 and 2 in 2024. A newer operator selling a first truck needs the same things as a long-standing one: a clear title, the registration, and the keys.

We buy trucks across that whole range, so the model year is simply one of the details to give us along with the make and VIN.

Roughly a third of those Cotati trucks, 34.9 percent by FMCSA roadside inspection records, carried a model year ten or more years back. If yours falls in that group, the paperwork is what matters: a title that matches the VIN plate and any inspection reports you still hold.

Of the 3,002 jobs located in Cotati in 2023, the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts place 714, or 23.8 percent, in construction, with 145 in manufacturing and 115 in wholesale trade. Contractors’ dump trucks, stake beds and service bodies are the kind of equipment that work produces, and we will collect from a job site as readily as from a yard.

Cotati holds 71 construction establishments, according to the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns, from framers to site-work outfits. If a building firm is retiring a truck, have the company’s title and an authorised signer available, and tell us whether the truck is at the shop or out on a job.

USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 3,097 farms in Sonoma County, with milk, cattle and cut flowers and cultivated greens as the leading products. Feed trucks, cattle haulers and refrigerated flower trucks from those farms may be parked out on a ranch road, so send a map pin or directions with your photos.

A farm truck is often titled to the ranch or a family member rather than the driver. Check whose name is on the California title before you contact us, and if it has gone missing, the California Department of Motor Vehicles is the office that issues a duplicate.

The North American Rail Network, kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, shows NAPA YARD, a rail yard 23.4 miles east of Cotati. A truck that shuttles loads between that yard and the Sonoma side can be collected at either end.

When a truck is sitting at a rail yard or quarry instead of your own property, tell us who manages the lot and when the gate is open, so the pickup can be planned with them.

• Our gravel truck stays at the Soiland pit outside Cotati - does it have to come into town first?Soiland’s crushed-stone quarry sits 1.5 miles west of town on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list, and we collect from sites like that directly. Give us the location and a contact who can let us through the gate.
• The California title for our Cotati truck has gone missing - which office replaces it?California titles are issued by the state Department of Motor Vehicles, and that office handles duplicates. Start that request, then tell us where it stands so we can plan around it.
• Do you buy older farm trucks from Sonoma County ranches?Sonoma County’s 3,097 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture run trucks of every model year, and we buy across that range. Send the VIN, photos and the ranch location.
• I run a small construction fleet in Cotati. Could you collect three or four units from our Cotati yard in one sale?Cotati’s 71 construction establishments in County Business Patterns sit alongside the town’s carriers, and we handle multi-truck sales. Send a VIN for every unit alongside the yard or jobsite address where it sits.