Pit and rail
Munn & Perkins, Riverbank Yard and the Oakdale line
The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists Munn & Perkins Pit & Mill, a sand and gravel operation, 2.6 miles south-east of Escalon. A dump truck or end-dump tractor that loads there may still be parked at the pit when you sell, so tell us whether a gate code or a site contact is needed to reach it.
Riverbank Yard lies 6.1 miles south-east and Oakdale Yard 9 miles east, according to the North American Rail Network kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. If your tractor shuttles loads to either yard, give us the address where it sleeps between runs, whether that is a yard lot or your own driveway on the edge of town.
Further out, Hughson Aggregates appears 15.5 miles south-east in Mine Safety and Health Administration records. Gravel haulers that split their week between Hughson and the Munn & Perkins mill can be collected from either site; just name the one where the truck will be on the day.
Two intermodal ramps sit west of town on Bureau of Transportation Statistics listings: Stockton at 11.9 miles north-west and Lathrop at 14.6 miles west. Day cabs that pull chassis from those ramps back toward Escalon are trucks we buy, and the first two things we ask for are the VIN and a current odometer photo.
Near the Lathrop ramp, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics places the Def Distr Reg West Sharpe Site 15.1 miles west and NG Lathrop 15.3 miles west, both military installations. If your truck delivers onto a base, mention any access rules for where it is kept, and send cab, frame and tire photos so the listing we work from matches the tractor in front of us.
FMCSA’s carrier census counts 218 active carriers based in Escalon; 194 of them operate intrastate only, 24 cross state lines, and 67 are private fleets hauling their own goods. For a California-only operator, have the California registration card and the title together before we talk, since the title agency named on it is where any correction would start.
By cargo type, the federal census lists 83 Escalon carriers for general freight, 31 for farm supplies, 27 for machinery and large objects and 24 for grain, feed and hay. A flatbed or lowboy that moves tractors and implements between farms, or a hay truck with its trailer, can be sold together or separately; tell us which pieces you are letting go.
New registrations stay small here: 8 carriers in 2025 and 2 in 2024, per FMCSA. If you started hauling recently and are now stepping back, your newer authority papers and the purchase documents for the truck are what to keep in hand.
Fleet sizes, model years and annual miles
The three biggest fleets on FMCSA’s carrier census for Escalon run 30 power units with 35 drivers, 8 units with 14 drivers, and 8 units with 8 drivers. An owner of a fleet of that size can sell one tractor or several at once, and a list of VINs with their parking spots lets us plan the collections together.
Whatever the year of yours, send a recent inspection report along with the photos.
Among 44 carriers reporting mileage, the median truck covered 20,714 miles a year on the FMCSA census. Write down the odometer reading the day you contact us and again the day before pickup, so both figures are on file.
Of 2,146 jobs located in Escalon in 2023, manufacturing held 460, or 21.4 percent, per the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts; agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting held 106 and construction 105. Box trucks and straight trucks that serve the town’s plants are part of what we purchase, and any service log kept by the plant’s maintenance shop is useful to have with the title.
Contractors selling a dump truck, flatbed or crew truck should note any equipment mounted on it, such as a crane or tool body, when they write to us.
Feed trucks, cattle haulers and silage trucks parked out on a dairy or ranch are collected where they stand; give us the farm’s address and the name of whoever will be there to meet the driver.
The California Air Resources Board’s own notice on amendments to the Advanced Clean Trucks Regulation describes a rule whose status is now contested. For a diesel tractor registered in Escalon, the registration card and title are the documents we ask for.
A federal court filing in the Eastern District of California shows enforcement of the 2036 zero-emission sales requirement for medium- and heavy-duty vehicles paused, and CARB’s rulemaking page lists the Advanced Clean Fleets drayage and high-priority fleet requirements as repealed. Escalon owners who held a drayage truck back while those rules were pending can sell it with the usual paperwork.
The questions we get asked in Escalon
- Can you take a truck from a dairy in San Joaquin County?San Joaquin County has 3,439 farms on USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, with milk at the top of its products, and we collect from farm yards. Give us the address and the gate or barn where the truck is kept.