Huntington Beach has a fuel terminal almost downtown, less than half a mile from the city centre, and the Long Beach piers eleven miles west. Of 866 carriers based here, nine in ten run inside California only, and after general freight the cargoes they declare most are household goods, motor vehicles and passengers. Manufacturing is the biggest trucking employer in the city, and the median carrier reports about 16,000 miles a year on each truck.
So a Huntington Beach yard holds a fuel tanker off the terminal, a day cab draying boxes off Pier J, a moving van, a car hauler, and the semi truck with a sleeper on the interstate. The Seal Beach naval weapons station sits on the north-west edge of town, the biggest fleet based here is small, and Orange County's farms lead with equine, honey and cut flowers.
Hoover Street in Westminster, First Street in Santa Ana
Huntington Beach has no DMV field office of its own on the state's list; the Westminster office at 13700 Hoover Street and the Santa Ana office at 1330 East First Street handle a duplicate title and the title transfer. The five-day notice of sale, the lien and the clean-truck rules are on the California page.
A fuel tanker is read through its tank paperwork and its fittings, a port day cab through the fifth wheel, the clutch and the steps, a moving van through the body and the lift gate. Photograph those first, then the cab, the engine, the frame and the odometer, and tell us the terminal, the pier or the lane it worked and whether the trailer goes with it.
Open roads on the coast
California holds the federal 80,000 pounds on the interstates and its own axle table on state roads, both on the California page. Huntington Beach's own list is open: none of its 47 bridges carries a load posting and none sits under fourteen feet, so a tandem fuel truck here answers to the scale and nothing on a sign.
Tell us where the truck is in Huntington Beach, by the terminal, up by Seal Beach or in a yard in town, and send photos and the title.