A name that outlived its company
Two rail rows here are named for a steelworks that closed in 1983
Kaiser Steel was founded on 1 December 1941 and built the following year to augment American shipbuilding. Its first blast furnace fired on 30 December 1942, it produced its first steel plate in August 1943, and it became the largest integrated steel-making facility on the West Coast.
It closed in 1983. The site is now occupied by California Steel Industries and the Auto Club Speedway, and two rail rows in our data still carry the older company’s name. Nothing about current steel-making here should be read out of them — that is a label with a forty-year-old company on it.
That is not the only row here that means less than it looks
That California Steel Industries succession is not the only thing here that reads oddly. One of the two is operated by a passenger rail authority rather than a freight carrier — one of thirteen such rows in California and forty-one across the national layer — and freight reasoning does not transfer to those.
A coach yard or maintenance shop generates a different and much smaller amount of road work than a freight yard. So between the defunct name and the passenger operator, in a San Bernardino County city this size, the rail rows here support very little, and this page rests on the city instead.
What runs here
And the city carries it easily
So whatever you drive, the offer does not change — we buy all of them. This is the middle of the Inland Empire distribution belt, which puts day cabs and road tractors on these roads in numbers, with box trucks and straight trucks on the local delivery end.
Construction and aggregate put dump trucks and flatbeds on the same roads, and pickups and work trucks are everywhere. Rialto, Colton and Rancho Cucamonga carry pages of their own, and the working traffic runs across all of them without noticing a boundary.
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 Fontana
Fontana, Rialto, Colton and the Inland Empire around them. Tell us what you have and we will take it from there.
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