Gravel pits and crushed stone across the valley floor
Littlerock Quarry, a sand and gravel operation the Mine Safety and Health Administration lists about 22 miles east of Elizabeth Lake, is one of several pits out on the valley floor. A tandem dump or transfer rig that has hauled aggregate from a pit like that is the kind of truck we buy, and it can stay parked at the yard or at your house while we arrange collection.
To the north-east, Big Iron DG Mine is a crushed-stone quarry roughly 20 miles off, according to the Mine Safety and Health Administration. If your truck hauled decomposed granite from there, have the title and current registration in one folder and take photos of the bed, the frame rails and the cab interior before you call.
Mojave Pit, another sand and gravel site, lies 22.5 miles due north according to the Mine Safety and Health Administration. A tractor and end-dump combination that ran between that pit and job sites can be sold as a set or as the tractor alone; just say which when you describe it.
Cement to the north-west, clay to the south-east
North-west of town, the Lebec Cement Plant is recorded by the Mine Safety and Health Administration at 23.8 miles away. Mixer trucks and pneumatic bulk tankers serve plants of that kind, and we will look at either; send the VIN, the drum or tank details and the service records you still have.
The Mine Safety and Health Administration places Acton Clay Quarries, an industrial-mineral mine, about 20 miles to the south-east, on the far side of the hills from the lake. If the truck sits at a quarry gate or a contractor’s lot near Acton, give us the address and the name of whoever can let our driver in, and the pickup gets planned around that.
An aerospace plant and the roads east of the lake
Air Force Plant 42, which the Bureau of Transportation Statistics records as a military installation, lies 16.8 miles east of Elizabeth Lake. Box trucks, flatbeds and service bodies that run supply work around an aerospace site are welcome here, whatever the body type.
The plant and the quarries sit in different directions from the lake, so tell us where the truck is parked today rather than where it usually works. A yard address helps us route the driver; so does a note on whether a low-boy is needed or the truck can be driven onto a trailer.
A lost pink slip near the lake goes through Lancaster
Titles in this state are handled by the State of California Department of Motor Vehicles, which works through DMV field offices. The State of California Department of Motor Vehicles lists the Lancaster office at 721 W Ave L6, Lancaster, 93535, about 13.2 miles from Elizabeth Lake, and a duplicate title request can be made there in person.
If the title still shows a lender who has been satisfied, bring the lien release along with it when you visit the Lancaster office. Sellers who cannot find the paper title at all should mention that early; the sale can still go ahead once the Lancaster office has issued the replacement.
Potted plants, mushrooms and horses on Los Angeles County farms
Potted flowering plants, mushrooms and equine lead the farm sales list for the 766 farms that USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts across Los Angeles County. Refrigerated straight trucks that carry nursery stock or mushrooms fall within what we purchase, reefer units included.
Around Elizabeth Lake and the canyons near it, horse operations use stock trailers, hay haulers and the pickups or tractors that pull them. If your rig has carried horses or feed, list the trailer separately from the power unit and photograph the trailer floor and hitch.
Three state truck rules and where each one sits today
The California Air Resources Board’s Advanced Clean Trucks Regulation is contested in court. Its separate 2036 requirement that all medium- and heavy-duty vehicle sales be zero-emission is not being enforced at present, with enforcement paused by a federal court.
For drayage, high-priority and federal fleets, the Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation requirements have been repealed by the board. An Elizabeth Lake owner holding a diesel tractor or dump truck can sell it to us without reference to any of the three; we buy diesel trucks under the rules as they now read.
The questions we get asked in Elizabeth Lake
- Will you collect a dump truck parked at a quarry out past Littlerock?Littlerock Quarry is about 22 miles east of Elizabeth Lake per the Mine Safety and Health Administration, and we collect from quarry yards like it. Tell us which gate the truck is behind and who holds the key to that gate.
- Where do I go in person for a replacement title?The Lancaster DMV field office at 721 W Ave L6, about 13.2 miles from Elizabeth Lake, handles title requests for the State of California Department of Motor Vehicles.
- Do you buy refrigerated trucks from nurseries and mushroom growers?Potted flowering plants and mushrooms are top farm products in Los Angeles County by USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, and reefer straight trucks from that work are trucks we purchase.
- Can I sell a horse trailer along with the truck that pulls it?Equine is among Los Angeles County’s leading farm categories in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, and around the lake we take stock trailers either with the tow vehicle or on their own.