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Golden Hills sits in the Tehachapi Mountains of Kern County, with a cement plant just east of town and the quarries, pits and asphalt terminal of the Mojave side strung out beyond it. The dump trucks, mixers and tractors that serve those sites are the trucks we buy here.

Selling a truck in Golden Hills? Tell us about it and we'll take it from there.

Two cement plants on the road east of Golden Hills

Tehachapi Cement, LLC. is listed by the Mine Safety and Health Administration as a cement plant 5.7 miles east of Golden Hills. Bulk tankers, mixers and end dumps that load at a plant that close are often parked at home in town between runs, so tell us whether yours is in a driveway, on a hillside lot or still at the plant gate.

Further out, Mojave Plant & Quarry appears in the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list as a cement plant 13.3 miles south-east. If your truck hauled clinker, cement or aggregate out of either plant, put the title, the current registration and any plant gate or scale records you kept in one folder before you call; those papers answer most of our questions about where the truck has worked.

Sand, gravel and a metal mine east and west of town

Two sand and gravel operations show up in Mine Safety and Health Administration records at almost the same distance from Golden Hills: Mojave Pit 18 miles to the south-east and Solari Sand and Gravel 18.8 miles to the west. Belly dumps, transfer trucks and ten-wheelers that alternate between those two pits can be collected at either one, so give us the pit name and who controls the gate.

The Soledad Mountain Project, a metal mine 20 miles east by the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s measure, rounds out the list of extraction sites around town. Haul trucks and service units from a mine site need a contact who can let us onto the property; send that name with your photos of the cab, the frame and the VIN plate.

Mojave Yard and the asphalt terminal next to it

MOJAVE YARD, a rail yard 19.3 miles east, is recorded in the North American Rail Network kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. A tractor that has shuttled loads between that yard and the plants up the hill can be picked up near Mojave if that is where it now sits; you can stay in Golden Hills and handle the paperwork from home.

Just past the yard, the Energy Information Administration lists the MOJAVE ASPHALT TERMINAL as a petroleum product terminal 20.2 miles east. Asphalt tankers and paving trucks that loaded there are welcome; have the tank’s last inspection paperwork and the truck’s registration ready, and tell us what product it carried last.

Builders, graders and road crews on the mountain

The Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts (LODES) put 952 jobs in Golden Hills in 2023, and 153 of them, 16.1 percent, were in construction. Alongside that construction share, the trucks local owners bring us include dump trucks, water trucks, flatbeds and service bodies that work subdivisions and road jobs across the Tehachapi area.

For a contractor’s truck, the title in the business name and a letter or signature from whoever is authorised to sell it saves a second round of calls. If the title has gone missing, apply to the state title agency for a duplicate before the sale.

Below the Tehachapi grade

Dairy, cattle and cotton trucks from the valley floor

Down the grade from Golden Hills, the 1,691 Kern County farms tallied by USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture lead with milk, then cattle, then cotton. Milk tankers, livestock haulers and module or bale trucks from those operations belong on our list as much as the cement and gravel fleet up the mountain.

A farm truck often sits on the ranch for part of the year. Tell us the ranch road and the nearest cross street, send photos taken in daylight, and say whether the truck is registered or carrying a farm exemption, so we can arrange collection on the property where it is parked.

Repealed, paused, contested: CARB truck rules today

The California Air Resources Board lists its Advanced Clean Fleets drayage, high priority and federal fleet requirements as repealed, and a federal court filing shows enforcement of the 2036 zero-emission sales requirement paused. The Advanced Clean Trucks Regulation remains contested, according to the board’s own announcement of amendments.

None of that changes what we need from a Golden Hills owner: the title, the registration and a clear set of photos. If you are unsure which rule applies to your fleet, tell us how many trucks you run and what they haul, and we will work through the sale one truck at a time.

The questions we get asked in Golden Hills

  • Our end dump stays at Solari Sand and Gravel between jobs; will you collect it from the pit itself?Solari Sand and Gravel sits 18.8 miles west on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list, and we collect from pits like it directly. Send the pit name and a gate contact.
  • Do you buy mixers and bulk tankers from the Tehachapi cement plant?Tehachapi Cement, LLC., 5.7 miles east according to the Mine Safety and Health Administration, is exactly the kind of site whose mixers and bulk tankers we purchase. A cement hauler from that plant should come with its title and a current registration card.
  • Would you buy the milk tanker that serves our Kern County dairy?Milk tops the products USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture lists for Kern County’s 1,691 farms, and tankers serving those dairies are trucks we buy. Tell us where the tanker is parked and whether it carries a farm exemption.
  • Can you pick up a truck that is parked near Mojave Yard?MOJAVE YARD lies 19.3 miles east in the North American Rail Network, and a truck parked near it can be collected there. Give us the address and someone who can open the lot.

Sell your truck in Golden Hills

From the cement plants east of Golden Hills to the pits at Mojave and Solari and the Kern County farms below the pass, we collect trucks where they work.