The operation
A gold mine on seven disturbed acres of twenty permitted
The state mine register carries the Washington Mine as active, working gold in lode, in Shasta County, with 7 acres disturbed of 20 permitted and financial assurance of 112,979 dollars lodged against the reclamation. The federal safety register names the controller as Matt Allain, an individual rather than a company.
Both halves of that describe a small, real operation. Small operations run equipment a long time and know it well, and an individual controller usually means the person who ran the truck is the person selling it.
Wet country, and what that does to the underside of a truck
That is not desert ground. This place gets real rainfall and snow, so corrosion is present here — the opposite of the Mojave and Great Basin nodes measured in the same batch, where the dry air is what preserves metal.
It changes what is worth photographing. On a truck that has worked out of the Washington Mine or anywhere like it, the frame rails, the air tanks, the brake lines and the underside of a deck say more about the condition than the paint does. Send those and we will read them.
What runs here
Mountain work, and the towns down the road
So whatever you drive, the offer does not change — we buy all of them. In Shasta County that means log trucks and timber rigs, dump trucks and flatbeds running to operations like the Washington Mine, box trucks on distribution, and pickups and work trucks everywhere.
Redding is the nearest place of any size, with Keswick, Shasta, Igo and Weaverville between here and there; all of them carry pages of their own. Start wherever the truck actually sits.
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. Up here the usual path is that we buy it remotely and arrange the tow, so nothing waits on somebody driving the canyon road. 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.
Sell your truck in French Gulch
French Gulch, Keswick, Shasta and the road down to Redding. Most of what we buy up here we buy remotely and arrange the tow.
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