Sell your semi truck for cash in East Palo Alto the easy and convenient way

FMCSA’s carrier census lists 88 active motor carriers based in East Palo Alto, and 84 of them are registered for intrastate work against 4 for interstate. If your truck has spent its working life on California roads under one of those intrastate authorities, have the California registration card with the title so the two can be matched to the VIN.

Thirteen of the East Palo Alto carriers on that same federal census run private fleets, hauling their own goods rather than freight for hire. A box truck or tractor that has carried a company’s own stock between its sites is just as welcome as one that hauled for customers; tell us what the business moved and the address of the yard where the truck is kept.

New authorities keep appearing in the city too: the carrier census shows 5 East Palo Alto carriers first registered in 2025 and 4 in 2024. If you started an operation recently and the truck is the first one you bought, send the title, the registration and a set of photos of the cab, the frame and the tires.

Of the cargo classes East Palo Alto carriers declare to FMCSA, general freight leads with 25 carriers, ahead of motor vehicles with 5, garbage and refuse with 4 and driveaway or towaway with 2. Dry vans, straight trucks, car carriers and roll-off or packer units all fit what we buy, so name the body type and its maker when you first get in touch.

A refuse truck or car hauler carries equipment beyond the chassis, and the federal census lists both kinds of operator in this city. Photograph the packer body, the hoist or the ramps and deck as well as the tractor, and note the body serial plate if you can find it, so the description we work from covers the whole unit.

The biggest fleet registered in East Palo Alto, per FMCSA’s census, runs 37 power units with 20 drivers, and the next two each list 5 power units and 5 drivers. Whether you are selling one tractor or several from a yard like these, a list of VINs with the model year of each lets us look at every unit together.

Eight carriers in the city reported annual mileage to FMCSA, and the middle figure among them is 13,625 miles for each truck. Read the odometer before you call and include a photo of it; that single reading, with the VIN, answers most of the first questions we would ask about the truck.

West of the city by 4.7 miles, Redwood City Yard appears in the North American Rail Network, and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics lists the port at Redwood City 5.5 miles to the north-west. If a truck shuttles between those docks and rail sidings and sits on a lot there, give us the lot’s address and the name of whoever can let a driver in.

Newark Yard lies 7.2 miles north-east on the rail network maintained by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, and the same bureau places NAVPMOSSP Mtn View 6.9 miles south-east. A truck kept on the East Bay side or near Mountain View does not need to be driven back to East Palo Alto first; we collect it where it stands.

The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists Langley Hill Quarry 11.1 miles south-west and Stevens Creek Quarry 12.1 miles south, both producing crushed stone. Dump trucks and transfer trailers that haul aggregate from pits like these are among the trucks we purchase; tell us which quarry the truck served and send pictures of the bed and the hoist.

Thirteen miles east in San Jose, the Energy Information Administration records two petroleum product terminals, one listed as San Jose at 13.2 miles and the Shell San Jose Terminal at 13.3. If your tanker or fuel truck has loaded at those racks, keep its tank inspection and service records together with the title and hand them over with the keys.

The Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts put 7,851 jobs in East Palo Alto in 2023, with construction accounting for 228 of them, or 2.9 percent. A flatbed, a stake truck or a dump body that has supported building work around town fits what we take; the title in your name and a current registration are the two papers to find first.

San Mateo County had 250 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, and its top products were potted flowering plants, mushrooms and foliage plants. If you run a reefer or a box truck that moves nursery stock or mushrooms off those farms, mention whether the refrigeration unit has its own hour meter and photograph its reading.

The California Air Resources Board’s Advanced Clean Fleets requirements for drayage, high-priority and federal fleets are listed as repealed, and its Advanced Clean Trucks regulation is marked as contested. Selling a diesel truck from East Palo Alto is not blocked by either one; have the title and registration ready as usual.

Enforcement of the 2036 requirement that all new medium- and heavy-duty sales be zero-emission is paused, according to a federal court filing in the Eastern District of California. If you have questions about how any of these rules touch your own fleet, the board’s published notices are the place to check before you sell.

• Our tractor sits on a lot by the Redwood City docks rather than in East Palo Alto itself; is it fine to leave it parked by the water?The Bureau of Transportation Statistics places the Redwood City port 5.5 miles north-west of East Palo Alto, and we collect from there directly. Send the lot address and a contact who can open the gate.
• I pull general freight and never leave California; would you take a truck like mine?General freight is the cargo class 25 East Palo Alto carriers declare to FMCSA, and intrastate trucks like yours make up 84 of the city’s 88 active carriers. Begin with the VIN, a picture of the odometer and shots of the cab and frame.
• Selling an East Palo Alto garbage packer, which papers and pictures do you want with it?FMCSA’s carrier census shows 4 East Palo Alto carriers hauling garbage and refuse, so packer and roll-off units are familiar ground. Send the title, the registration and photos of the chassis and the body, including its serial plate.
• My dump truck is parked at a crushed-stone pit south of East Palo Alto; would you pick it up from the quarry?Langley Hill Quarry sits 11.1 miles south-west and Stevens Creek Quarry 12.1 miles south, per the Mine Safety and Health Administration. Tell us which site holds the truck and who can let a driver onto it.