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Hydesville · Humboldt County · California

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Hydesville is a small Humboldt County town where log trucks, lowboys and gravel haulers share the roads with farm traffic headed for dairies and cattle ranches.

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

Poles, beams, flatbeds

Hydesville tractors that pulled timber loads

Eight Hydesville outfits, out of 25 active ones in FMCSA’s carrier census, name logs, poles, beams and lumber as freight they move. If your tractor pulled a log trailer or a lumber flatbed, tell us which trailer setup it ran with and whether the trailer is part of the sale, so we plan the collection around the right equipment.

Six of those Hydesville carriers haul machinery and large objects, and five carry general freight, according to the same federal register. A lowboy tractor or a heavy-spec day cab from that work is something we collect; have the registration card and the VIN plate photos ready when you first get in touch.

Three local outfits move farm supplies, the FMCSA census adds. A truck that ran feed or fencing out to ranches may be parked on a property rather than in a yard, so send us the gate location and any access notes for the pickup.

West of town, north to Eureka

Alton Pit & Mill and the Eureka fuel terminal

Alton Pit & Mill, a sand and gravel operation the Mine Safety and Health Administration lists about 3.6 miles west of town, is close enough that a dump truck or transfer rig may still be sitting there when you decide to sell. Let us know if the truck is on the pit site so we can arrange entry with the operator before we arrive.

North of Hydesville by roughly 21.9 miles, Hatchery Road Crusher is a second sand and gravel site on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list. Photos of the bed, the hoist and the chassis plate help us identify a gravel truck from either operation without a trip to look first.

The Energy Information Administration records a petroleum product terminal at Eureka, 16.2 miles to the north-west. If your truck is a fuel tanker or pulled one to that terminal, include the tank’s specification plate in your photos along with the cab and frame.

A missing certificate of title is handled by the State of California Department of Motor Vehicles, and its nearest DMV field office to Hydesville is the Eureka office at 2500 6th St, Eureka, 95501, about 17.3 miles away. Request a duplicate there before we collect, since the title goes with the truck.

Bring the truck’s VIN, your driver licence and the current registration to the Eureka counter. If a lender still appears on the title, ask that office what lien release it needs; the State of California Department of Motor Vehicles sets that process, not us.

Once the title is in hand, keep it with any service records and the last inspection report. Hydesville owners who gather those three items together give us everything needed to finish the sale in one visit.

Federal inspectors stopped 46 trucks belonging to Hydesville carriers from late August 2024 to late August 2026, and FMCSA roadside inspection records put their median model year at 2022.5. We buy trucks across that whole spread of years, so tell us the model year and engine make up front.

By the same FMCSA roadside inspection records, roughly 17 percent of those inspected Hydesville trucks were ten or more model years old. Whatever year yours is, the steps are identical: VIN, odometer reading, title status and a set of clear photos.

Ten local carriers reported mileage to FMCSA’s carrier census, and their median annual distance per truck is 52,333 miles. Note your own odometer reading in the first message so we have the same figure you see on the dash.

Local and long range

Intrastate work and the hundred-mile radius

Most Hydesville carriers stay inside California: FMCSA’s carrier census lists 21 as intrastate-only against four interstate operators, plus nine private fleets moving their own goods. A private fleet selling one of its units can send us the company’s registration and the truck’s title together.

FMCSA’s carrier census counts 37 drivers at Hydesville carriers inside a hundred-mile radius and 81 who travel past it. A long-range truck may be parked away from home when you call, so tell us where it is right now and we come to that spot.

The biggest of these carriers runs 60 power units with 45 drivers, by FMCSA’s count, and the next two run nine and three. Whether you are selling a single truck or several from a fleet that size, list each VIN so we can match titles to trucks.

Dairies and transport jobs

Milk, cattle and hemp across Humboldt

Hydesville’s surrounding county counted 721 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, and milk, cattle and hemp lead the list. Milk tankers, livestock haulers and farm flatbeds from those operations are trucks we collect, often straight from the ranch.

A quarter of the 208 jobs located in Hydesville in 2023 were in transportation and warehousing, the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts show, while County Business Patterns lists four construction establishments in the area. Contractors selling a dump truck or service body can send the registration and photos by text.

For a farm truck registered to a ranch rather than a person, check the name on the title matches the seller. If it does not, the State of California Department of Motor Vehicles can explain the transfer form before we arrive.

Clean truck regulations as they stand for Hydesville owners

The Advanced Clean Trucks Regulation is contested at the moment. As for the zero-emission sales requirement set for 2036, its enforcement is on hold according to the court record published on GovInfo.

Hydesville fleets that followed the Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation - Drayage Fleet Requirements and High Priority and Federal Fleets Requirements should know it has been repealed. Your diesel truck can be sold to us regardless of those rules; keep any emissions labels visible in your photos.

The questions we get asked in Hydesville

  • Can you collect a truck parked at Alton Pit & Mill?The Mine Safety and Health Administration places Alton Pit & Mill about 3.6 miles west of town, and we can pick up a truck there once you tell us who on site can let us in.
  • Is a Hydesville lumber tractor something you take?Eight of Hydesville’s 25 active carriers in FMCSA’s carrier census haul logs, poles, beams and lumber, and those tractors are among the trucks we purchase.
  • Could you collect a tanker sitting at a dairy outside Hydesville?Milk tops the farm products listed for Humboldt County in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, and a tanker from one of those dairies is a truck we collect from the farm.

Sell your truck in Hydesville

From Hydesville’s ranch roads to Alton Pit & Mill, the Eureka fuel terminal and the crusher on Hatchery Road, we collect trucks wherever they are parked in this corner of Humboldt County.