We buy trucks in Hollister

MSHA records 2 employees at Vineyard Rock, in San Benito County, and the node’s coordinates lie 12.23 miles from the centroid of this place. That is a long resolution, and it is worth being straight about what it means: the quarry is attached to this town by the nearest place of that name, not because it sits in it.

Twelve miles is a working distance out here rather than an unusual one. It does mean that where a truck actually lives is a better question than which town it is registered to, and the form asks for the city for that reason.

Those roads carry no recorded restriction either. Within ten miles the National Bridge Inventory records 15 structures, and none of them is coded posted for load on item 41 or below legal loads on item 70 — a measured zero, on a thin network.

It fits the county it sits in. San Benito County maintains 47 bridges of its own and posts not one of them, which puts it among the thirteen California counties that hold twenty or more and post none. That silence is not the same as a clear road: it means nothing has been recorded, and the two are different facts.

So whatever you drive, the offer does not change — we buy all of them. On San Benito County ground that means farm trucks and grain hauls, flatbeds and day cabs hauling produce, the quarry’s dump trucks and aggregate haulers, box trucks on distribution, and pickups and work trucks everywhere.

Gilroy is over the hill, with San Juan Bautista and Ridgemark closer in, and all three carry pages of their own. Start on whichever one the truck sits nearest.

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.

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. Here we usually come to you and either drive it away or tow it; we also buy remotely and arrange the tow, and you can drive it to us. Payment is cash or electronic payment.