Rock up the road
Stone pits a few miles past the Graton town line
Blue Rock Quarry, a crushed-stone operation listed by the Mine Safety and Health Administration, sits about 3.5 miles north-west of Graton. A dump truck or tractor that has shuttled stone out of a pit that close to town is the kind of unit we collect, and it can usually stay parked at the yard or at your place while we arrange pickup.
Further along the same bearing, Canyon Rock Co Inc runs a second crushed-stone quarry roughly 6.2 miles out, on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list of mines. If your truck splits its days between the two pits, tell us which gate it works from and send photos of the bed, the frame and the plate so we know exactly what we are looking at.
South-east of Graton, the Mine Safety and Health Administration records Roblar Quarry LLC as a sand and gravel operation about 9 miles away. Gravel haulers based there can be picked up on site; give us the address and a note on how a truck carrier gets in through the gate.
Eleven local carriers, mostly staying in California
FMCSA’s carrier census lists 11 active carriers based in Graton, and ten of them are registered as intrastate operators with just one running interstate. For a seller, that usually means the truck carries California registration only, so have that registration card and the title together before you call.
Four of the eleven run as private fleets under FMCSA’s carrier census, hauling their own goods rather than freight for hire. A business that owns one or two trucks for its own deliveries can sell a single unit to us without touching the rest of its operation.
The newest arrivals are recent: three carriers registered in Graton during 2025, after none in 2024, according to FMCSA’s carrier census. If you started hauling last year and the truck no longer fits your plans, the title and the bill of sale from your purchase are the two documents to keep at hand.
Cold loads and bulk
Refrigerated food, meat and dry bulk out of Graton
Refrigerated food and meat each show up on two local carriers’ cargo lists in FMCSA’s carrier census. Reefer tractors and straight trucks with cold boxes are on our list; send the reefer unit’s make and hours alongside the truck’s VIN when you reach out.
One Graton carrier is registered for dry bulk commodities and another for driveaway and towaway work, per FMCSA’s carrier census. Pneumatic tankers, hoppers and the tow rigs that move vehicles for others all fall within what we buy, and a list of the trailer or body specs saves a round of questions.
Plant shifts, job sites and dairy lanes
Of the 703 jobs located in Graton in 2023, manufacturing accounted for 423, a 60.2 percent share on the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts. Box trucks and tractors that run inputs to and products from those plants are welcome here, whether one unit or several.
Graton is home to three construction businesses on the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns tally, small outfits that tend to keep a dump truck or flatbed on hand. Contractors with a dump truck, flatbed or service body they no longer need can have it collected straight from the job site or the shop lot.
Around Graton and out across the county, dairies, cattle ranches and cut-flower growers lead the 3,097 farms that USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts in Sonoma County. Feed haulers, livestock trucks and flatbeds that work dairies and flower growers around Graton are trucks we collect from the farm itself.
A missing pink slip and the Santa Rosa office
California titles are issued by the State of California Department of Motor Vehicles through its DMV field offices. For Graton sellers, the nearest of those DMV field offices is Santa Rosa, at 2570 Corby Ave, Santa Rosa, 95407, a drive of about 8.2 miles on the State of California Department of Motor Vehicles’ office list.
If the title has gone missing, a visit to that Santa Rosa office is the step to take before a sale, and the registration card and your ID are what to bring. If a lender still holds the title, tell us at the start so the lien release is part of the plan.
California’s clean truck rules for a Graton owner
The California Air Resources Board’s Advanced Clean Trucks Regulation is currently contested, and for the 2036 zero-emission sales requirement for medium- and heavy-duty vehicles, enforcement is on hold under a federal court filing. Graton owners weighing a sale can set those rules beside their own plans without a deadline from either one today.
The drayage, high priority and federal fleet requirements of the Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation have been repealed, per the Air Resources Board. A Graton owner selling a diesel tractor to us does not need any fleet compliance filing under that rule to complete the sale.
The questions we get asked in Graton
- Will you collect a dump truck parked at Blue Rock or Canyon Rock?Blue Rock Quarry sits 3.5 miles north-west of town and Canyon Rock Co Inc about 6.2 miles out, both on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list, and we can collect from either yard or from your own lot. Send the address and how the truck is reached.
- My title is gone; which DMV office serves Graton?The Santa Rosa DMV field office at 2570 Corby Ave, about 8.2 miles from Graton, handles California title replacements for the State of California Department of Motor Vehicles. Take your registration card and a photo ID along to the Corby Avenue counter.
- Is a reefer tractor that hauls meat out of Graton something you take?Graton has two carriers each hauling refrigerated food and meat in FMCSA’s carrier census, and reefer tractors and cold-box straight trucks from them are trucks we collect. Include the reefer unit’s details with your photos.
- My truck has California-only registration; is that an issue for selling it?Ten of Graton’s 11 active carriers are intrastate in FMCSA’s carrier census, so a California-only registration is common here and sells just the same. Keep the title and registration card together.