We buy trucks in Etna

The Mine Data Retrieval System records 2 employees at the Moores Gravel Inc, and the node’s coordinates lie 8.35 miles from the centroid of this place. Both halves of that are worth reading: it is a small operation, and it is a long way from the centre of the nearest town that carries its name.

That distance is the ordinary condition up here rather than an exception. Trucks work out of yards and landings that are nowhere near a post office, and the practical question when one is sold is not where it is registered but what road it comes out on.

Those roads are measured and they are not generous. Within ten miles the National Bridge Inventory records 37 structures: three coded posted for load on item 41, four coded below legal loads on item 70, two of them county-maintained, and the nearest of them 1.91 miles from the works.

The lowest operating rating among them is 13.9 metric tonnes, about 15.3 US tons. Item 64 records the gross weight of the rating vehicle, so that cap admits roughly 2.9 tonnes of stone over the 11.0-tonne tare of an empty tandem dump — a crossing a loaded truck takes part loaded or not at all. That is unusual for this state: of the sixty California nodes measured for this work, 53.3% carry no commercial floor within ten miles at all.

So whatever you drive, the offer does not change — we buy all of them. In country like this that means log trucks and timber rigs, the Moores Gravel dump trucks and aggregate haulers, farm trucks off the valley floor, flatbeds moving plant, and pickups and work trucks everywhere.

Fort Jones and Greenview are the nearest places carrying pages of their own, with Yreka and Montague further down. It makes no difference which one you start from; it is the same form and the same answer.

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.

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. Up here the usual path is that we buy it remotely and arrange the tow, which is what a restricted crossing and a long road argue for. We also come to you and drive it away, come to you and tow it, or you drive it to us. Payment is cash or electronic payment.