Gravel pits in Irwindale and Azusa
The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists the Reliance Plant, a sand and gravel operation, 4.1 miles north-west of Covina, with Azusa Rock’s crushed-stone quarry 5.1 miles out on the same heading. A dump truck or transfer rig that has spent its shifts between those gates and local job sites is exactly the kind of truck we collect. If it is still parked at a pit, tell us whose yard it sits in and who can let us through.
Irwindale Aggregates, a sand and gravel operation 5.4 miles west on Mine Safety and Health Administration records, rounds out the cluster. For a truck that worked those pits, have the title, the current registration and a few clear photos of the bed, the cab and the plate ready before you call.
Farther out, the Cucamonga Creek Mine is an industrial-mineral mine that the Mine Safety and Health Administration puts 14.4 miles east of town. If your rig ended its working life out east rather than back home in Covina, give us that address and we plan the pickup there.
Container ramps south-west of Covina
Per the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, the Los Angeles - City of Industry intermodal ramp lies 6.4 miles south-west of Covina. Day cabs that shuttle boxes off that ramp to valley warehouses are trucks we purchase; send the VIN and a photo of the door sticker first, and the rest of our questions follow from those.
Two rail yards sit in that same south-west corridor on the North American Rail Network kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics: the COI Intermodal Terminal Yard at 6.3 miles and Rowland Yard at 6.7 miles. A chassis tractor left near either yard can be collected from there, so tell us which lot and whether a gate code is needed.
FMCSA’s carrier census shows 33 carriers based in Covina that list intermodal containers as a cargo they haul. If you run one of those small container outfits and are thinning the tractors, we can handle one unit or several in the same visit.
Box trucks, bucket trucks and packers off Covina streets
There are 685 active carriers with a Covina address in FMCSA’s carrier census, and 265 of them list general freight. Box trucks and tractors from that general-freight crowd make up much of what we see from town, so have the title in the name that matches your FMCSA registration.
Most of these outfits stay in California: the carrier census from FMCSA counts 573 intrastate operations against 110 interstate ones, plus 119 private fleets hauling their own goods. For an intrastate truck, the California registration card and title are the two papers we ask to see first.
Utility work accounts for 29 local carriers and garbage, refuse and trash for 22, again per FMCSA’s carrier census. Bucket trucks, service bodies and roll-off or packer units from those trades all qualify; photos of the body and any mounted equipment help us understand what the truck was built to do.
New registrations keep arriving, with FMCSA’s census recording 37 Covina carriers added in 2025 and 28 in 2024. Owner-operators who started recently and are changing direction can sell a single truck to us just as easily as an established fleet can.
Model years and miles in the valley
FMCSA roadside inspection records cover 232 Covina-based trucks inspected between August 2024 and August 2026, with a median model year of 2018 and 31.9 percent of them ten or more years old. Whatever year your truck is, list it with the make and model when you first contact us.
Among the 134 carriers that report mileage to FMCSA, the median comes to 30,000 miles a truck per year. Have your odometer reading handy alongside the VIN when you reach out, since those two numbers start the conversation.
On driver radius, the same FMCSA census tallies 348 Covina drivers working within 100 miles and 674 working beyond it. A long-haul tractor that is away on a run can be collected once it returns, or from the yard where it next parks.
Small fleets and local trades
The three biggest fleets in town run 17, 16 and 15 power units, according to FMCSA’s carrier census, with 7, 11 and 15 drivers respectively. Owners at that scale can sell us a few units at once; a list of VINs and where each truck parks lets us plan one collection rather than several.
LEHD job counts from the Census Bureau put 22,198 jobs in Covina in 2023, including 1,037 in manufacturing, 936 in construction, 360 in wholesale trade and 154 in transportation and warehousing. Flatbeds, stake beds and delivery trucks that served those employers are welcome, along with the service records you kept for them.
Covina’s 153 construction establishments, a figure from the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns, sit alongside the dump trucks, water trucks and flatbeds parked around town. Contractors retiring one of those can reach us directly; have the title and the keys together, and note any attached equipment that goes with the sale.
Bridges, flower growers and Los Angeles County farms
None of Covina’s 15 bridges in the National Bridge Inventory carries a load posting, and none clears under 14 feet. For a tall box truck or a loaded dump parked in town, your street address is usually all we need to plan the route.
Potted flowering plants, mushrooms and horses top the list for the 766 Los Angeles County farms counted in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture. Nursery stake beds, refrigerated box trucks and horse-hauling rigs from those farms are trucks we buy; photos of the body and the reefer unit, if fitted, are the place to start.
The questions we get asked in Covina
- My dump truck is still inside a gravel yard in Irwindale. Will you collect it from inside the pit?The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists Irwindale Aggregates 5.4 miles west of Covina, and we collect dump trucks from inside yards like that one; tell us who controls the gate and when the yard is open.
- I run a container tractor out of the City of Industry ramp. Should I bring it home to Covina for the pickup?The Bureau of Transportation Statistics places that intermodal ramp 6.4 miles south-west of town, and the tractor can stay where it is parked; we meet it near the ramp or the Rowland Yard area.
- Is a 2018 tractor with California registration something you buy?FMCSA roadside inspection records give 2018 as the median model year for trucks based here, and we buy that year and older or newer ones alike; have the title and current registration ready.