Sell your semi truck for cash in Fairfax the easy and convenient way

FMCSA’s carrier census shows 23 active motor carriers based in Fairfax, and 20 of them run intrastate only, with 2 crossing state lines and 2 operating as private fleets. A truck from one of these outfits usually lives at a home driveway or a contractor’s side lot rather than a terminal, so when you contact us, give the street address and say whether a tow rig can turn around there.

The cargo categories filed with that same federal census are short: two Fairfax carriers list machinery and large objects, one lists garbage and refuse, one general freight and one logs, poles, beams and lumber. If your truck is a lowboy tractor, a roll-off, a box truck or a log rig from that list, tell us the body type and the VIN first, since those two details shape every question that follows.

On fleet size, the two biggest Fairfax operations in the FMCSA records hold 6 power units with 6 drivers and 1 power unit with 1 driver. For an owner-operator with a single tractor, the paperwork we need is the same as for a fleet: the title in the seller’s name, current registration and any service records you kept.

On driving radius, FMCSA’s census records 8 local operators working within 100 air miles of home and 23 reporting runs beyond that distance. Either way, the truck does not need to come to us; it can stay parked in Fairfax or wherever it last finished a job, and we arrange collection at that spot.

New registrations are steady but small: FMCSA lists 3 carriers that started up in Fairfax in 2025 and none in 2024. If you are one of the newer operators and your truck still carries a lienholder on its title, have the lender’s contact details on hand so the release can be lined up with the sale.

Of the 1,634 jobs located in Fairfax in 2023, the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts place 114, or 7 percent, in construction. Around Fairfax there are 45 construction establishments on the books of the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns, each a possible owner of a dump body or flatbed. Dump trucks, flatbeds and service bodies that come off those jobs are trucks we buy, and a few clear photos of the cab, the bed and the hydraulics help us understand yours before we talk.

Crushed stone comes out of San Rafael Rock Quarry, which sits 7.7 miles east of Fairfax according to Mine Safety and Health Administration listings. Aggregate trucks and transfer rigs that load there tend to be parked near the job rather than at home, so if yours sits on a contractor’s lot, tell us whose lot it is and who can open the gate on the day of collection.

East across the water, the North American Rail Network maintained by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics places West Chevron Yard 11.6 miles from Fairfax and Chevron Yard 12.4 miles out. The Energy Information Administration lists two petroleum product terminals at Richmond, at 12 and 13 miles. If your tractor has pulled tankers between those sites, send any site inspection reports or safety checks you kept along with the title.

The Bureau of Transportation Statistics puts the port of Richmond 13 miles east and its Point Potrero Marine Terminal, a roll-on/roll-off facility, at 13.6 miles; the same agency lists the San Francisco port 16.7 miles to the south-east. A day cab that has worked those docks can be collected where it parks, on either side of the bay, as long as you give us the address and a contact on site.

USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 255 farms in Marin County, with milk, cattle and equine at the top of the county’s product list. Livestock haulers, feed trucks and flatbeds that serve those ranches can be sold from the ranch itself; tell us which gate to use and whether the road in is paved or gravel.

Ranch trucks often change hands inside families, so check that the name on the title matches the person selling. Where a title has gone missing, the replacement comes from California’s title agency, and starting that request early keeps the sale moving once we have agreed on the truck.

Within Fairfax, 6 bridges appear in the Federal Highway Administration’s National Bridge Inventory; a single one carries a load posting, and not one has clearance below 14 feet. Before collection, tell us if the route to your truck crosses that posted bridge, so the tow rig we send is sized for the road it will use.

The California Air Resources Board’s Advanced Clean Trucks Regulation is listed as contested, its Advanced Clean Fleets drayage and high-priority fleet requirements as repealed, and a federal court filing records enforcement of the zero-emission sales requirement for medium- and heavy-duty vehicles as paused. None of those rule changes stops you from selling a diesel truck registered in Marin County; bring the registration and title and we handle the rest of the transfer.

• I run one of the small Fairfax outfits with a single tractor. Will you deal with a one-truck Ross Valley operator?FMCSA’s carrier census shows most Fairfax carriers are single-truck or very small operations, the second-largest holding 1 power unit, and a single tractor is exactly what we buy. Keep the Fairfax title, the California registration and your maintenance log together for us.
• My ranch truck’s title is lost. Which California office reissues a lost ranch-truck title?With 255 farms in Marin County on USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture count, lost ranch-truck titles come up here, and the replacement is issued by California’s title agency. Start that request before collection so the title is ready when we arrive.
• Does the CARB fleet rule repeal change anything for a Marin diesel owner selling up?The Air Resources Board lists its Advanced Clean Fleets drayage and high-priority requirements as repealed, and nothing in those rules prevents a Fairfax owner from selling a diesel truck to us. Bring the registration and title.