An operator worth noticing
The quarry here is run by a trucking company
A dimension-granite operation here reports 2 employees to MSHA, and its operator of record is Runts Trucking Inc. That is worth a second look: across 397 mineral nodes the operator names run to Stone, Quarries, Materials, Aggregates, Sand and Cement, and a haulier holding the permit is rare.
Only one other row in the state looks like it — a one-employee industrial-sand operation at Corona run by Pacific States Transportation. Two of California’s remaining rows are operated by businesses whose names are explicitly haulage.
That tells you something about how small stone actually works
That Runts Trucking pattern makes sense once you see it. On a two-person dimension-stone operation the truck is not a cost of doing business, it more or less is the business: the value is in getting cut stone to a job, and whoever owns the haulage owns the margin.
We are not going to extrapolate beyond the two rows, because two is two. But if you run a small quarry-and-haulage operation in San Diego County, the equipment you are selling is the operation, and that is worth saying plainly when you tell us about it.
What runs here
North county farming, and a gap we will not fill
So whatever you drive, the offer does not change — we buy all of them. Stone and construction put flatbeds, dump trucks and aggregate haulers on these roads; the growing side puts farm trucks and refrigerated trailers on them; distribution puts box trucks and day cabs on them; and pickups and work trucks are everywhere.
Two things this page will not tell you. No facility-level source was found for the rail yard here, and California’s agricultural weight provisions are not extracted into the state rule file — absence is not established there either — and it is a San Diego County question rather than a state one. San Marcos, Vista and Poway carry pages of their own.
California weight law
The weight table here is not the federal one
That is state law rather than anything local, and it is the rule truck sellers misquote most often. CVC sections 35550 to 35558 set a statutory range of 34,000 to 80,000 lb by axle count and spacing, and § 35551(a) is a table rather than the federal Bridge Formula — no formula is declared in the statute at all.
The California table does not exactly match the Federal Bridge Table, including at three and four axles. So a configuration that is legal under one can be over under the other, and “it makes bridge formula” is a claim about which table you mean. If someone has told you your truck makes it, that is worth knowing before you repeat it.
Questions we actually get
The four that come up every time
Does it have to run? No. But we buy complete trucks — if the engine, transmission, doors, rear ends, drive shafts, wheels or anything under the hood have been removed, we can’t buy it. A missing bumper is nothing.
Do I need the title? We need a title, unless the truck is old enough that it never had one. If it is lost, that is a replacement through the DMV and we will walk you through it. If there is a lien on it, say so on the form — that is why the question asks whether the title is in hand rather than whether you own the truck, because those are different situations and they go different ways.
What if it has been in a wreck? Tell us what happened and we will look at it as it is. California sets no percentage: CVC § 544 makes it a judgement about whether repair is economical, so nothing is decided by a formula before we have seen the truck.
How does it get collected, and how am I paid? There is no clock on any of this. We come to you and drive it away, we come to you and tow it, we buy it remotely and arrange the tow, or you drive it to us. Payment is cash or electronic payment.
Sell your truck in Escondido
Escondido, San Marcos, Vista and north county. Tell us what you have and we will take it from there.
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