California-only carriers, refuse and freight
Only 12 of the 98 active Granite Bay carriers hold interstate authority in FMCSA’s carrier census; the other 86 keep their trucks inside California. If your truck has spent its working life inside California, have the California registration card in the cab when we come, together with the title in your name.
Of those 98 carriers, 28 run as private fleets moving their own goods, according to the same FMCSA census. A contractor or landscaper selling one tractor out of a small private fleet can send us the VIN, a photo of the door and the odometer, and we can talk from there.
General freight leads the cargo listings with 25 carriers in FMCSA’s census, followed by garbage and refuse with 11. A roll-off or rear-loader from a refuse route is as welcome as a dry-van tractor; tell us what body is mounted on the chassis so we arrive with the right equipment to move it.
Gravel, crushed stone and mineral mines nearby
The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists the Teichert-Grantline Plant, a sand and gravel operation, 12.5 miles south of Granite Bay, and Cool Cave Quarry, a crushed-stone quarry, 12.9 miles north-east. A dump truck or end-dump tractor that works those pits can stay parked at the yard; give us the gate address and the name of whoever can let us in.
North-west of town, GMcB Lincoln Pits & Mill sits 11.4 miles out and Capital Rock LLC 20.6 miles out, both industrial-mineral mines on Mine Safety and Health Administration records. Load tickets, scale slips or service invoices from that kind of hauling help us understand the truck’s history before we see it.
The Mine Safety and Health Administration also lists Chili Bar Slate, a crushed-stone quarry 18.7 miles east, and a Bradshaw sand and gravel operation 17.1 miles south-west. Photograph the bed, the hoist and the tires as well as the cab, so the pictures cover what the truck actually does.
A rail yard west, a fuel terminal south-west
Davis Yard, 7.9 miles west, appears in the North American Rail Network maintained by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. A day cab that shuttles freight to and from that yard can be collected wherever it is kept between loads, so tell us the address where it is usually parked.
The Energy Information Administration records the BRADSHAW petroleum product terminal 15.9 miles south-west of Granite Bay. If your tractor has pulled fuel out of that terminal, keep any tank inspection paperwork with the title, and mention the trailer if you want it gone as well.
Timber and heavy loads
Lumber, machinery and the county’s farms
Eight Granite Bay carriers list logs, poles, beams and lumber in FMCSA’s census, and seven list machinery and large objects. Log trucks and lowboy tractors are both trucks we buy; note whether the trailer is part of the sale and have its own title or registration ready if it is.
USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 1,093 farms across Placer County, with cattle, horses and sheep at the top of the list. A livestock hauler or a ranch flatbed parked on a property out in the county is collected where it stands, so send a pin or a gate code with your photos.
How old and how far: the local fleet
Roadside checks on 33 Granite Bay trucks from September 2024 to August 2026 show a median model year of 2017 in FMCSA roadside inspection records, and 39.4 percent of those trucks were ten or more years old. Whatever the year of yours, read the VIN off the door jamb and send it first, since every other question we ask follows from it.
Nineteen Granite Bay carriers report mileage to FMCSA, and the median among them is 13,043 miles per truck. The carrier census also shows 132 drivers working within 100 miles and 121 beyond it, so a truck could be at home, at a job site or at a terminal when you call; tell us which.
Construction jobs and new carriers
Construction accounts for 484 of Granite Bay’s 5,898 jobs in the Census Bureau’s 2023 LEHD job counts, with wholesale trade adding another 153. Seventy-nine construction firms keep an establishment in Granite Bay, per the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns tally. A contractor retiring a dump truck or flatbed from one of those firms needs only the title, the registration and the keys to start.
FMCSA’s carrier census records six new carriers registered here in 2025 and three in 2024. If you started a carrier recently and are selling the only truck on it, have the title, the registration and your USDOT number to hand when you get in touch.
The questions we get asked in Granite Bay
- Can my end-dump stay at the Teichert or Cool Cave yard while you collect it?Teichert-Grantline Plant sits 12.5 miles south and Cool Cave Quarry 12.9 miles north-east on Mine Safety and Health Administration records, and we collect trucks at pits like those. Send the yard address and the name of the person on site with the gate key.
- Will you take a garbage packer off a Placer County refuse route?Eleven carriers here list garbage and refuse hauling in FMCSA’s carrier census, and we buy those trucks. Tell us the body type and send photos of the packer along with the cab.
- Which California papers should sit with a Granite Bay tractor before pickup?With 86 of Granite Bay’s 98 carriers registered intrastate in FMCSA’s census, most trucks here carry California papers: have the title in your name, the current registration and any service records together before we arrive.