A thousand trucks a day
The intermodal terminal has a Roth Road address, and it is this one
Union Pacific gives the Lathrop Intermodal Terminal an address on East Roth Road here, and states that its main focus is transferring containers from rail to truck trailer, with over a thousand trucks entering and exiting daily. It has since run a terminal enhancement project substantially increasing capacity, and opened a new container yard next to it.
A thousand truck movements a day out of one gate is a big enough number that, whatever else is here, it is what shapes the roads.
That terminal is not the only large thing on this ground
That gate has a defence depot for a neighbour. The Sharpe site is a 724-acre facility employing approximately 1,500 people, and it is one third of a distribution depot split across three separate locations — Tracy, Sharpe here at Lathrop, and Rough & Ready Island at Stockton.
Throughput, and how the work divides between the three, were not established. We record the split and stop there: three sites under one name is a fact, and guessing which does what would not be.
What runs here
So this is a container town with a farm county around it
So whatever you drive, the offer does not change — we buy all of them. The Union Pacific container transfer puts day cabs and road tractors on these roads in numbers, and those runs are short, dense and repetitive — hours on a tractor rather than miles.
San Joaquin County is farm country underneath all of it, so farm trucks and grain hauls share the same roads, with flatbeds and dump trucks on the construction and levee side and pickups and work trucks everywhere. Lathrop and Stockton 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 French Camp
French Camp, Lathrop, Stockton and the county around them. Tell us what you have and we will take it from there.
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