What the record says
The rail row filed here is in another city and named for a third place
One rail row is attached to this city and its coordinate falls inside San Diego, which carries a page of its own. Its name points to San Ysidro — the border crossing — which is neither of those two places. One row, three place names, and no facility-level source behind any of them.
What that yard handles is recorded nowhere we can reach. The surrounding county’s industry is carried as county context rather than as yard traffic, and California’s agricultural weight provisions are not extracted into the state rule file. Absence is not established there either, which is a different statement from saying there is nothing.
Those military rows are a naval landing field and a strand
Those are the other two rows here, and both reverse-geocode into San Diego County. A naval outlying landing field and a stretch of the Silver Strand are not freight generators in any sense this page could use, and nothing about local trucking follows from either being on a list.
So this page rests on the city rather than on its nodes, which for a small coastal city is the honest way round.
What runs here
A small city near a very large border crossing
So whatever you drive, the offer does not change — we buy all of them. Day to day this is pickups and work trucks, box trucks and straight trucks on delivery rounds, flatbeds and day cabs on the contracting side, and dump trucks where there is groundwork.
The cross-border freight economy is close enough that drayage tractors get sold from around here too. Chula Vista, National City and Coronado carry pages of their own if the truck lives closer to one of those.
California weight law
The weight table here is not the federal one
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.
Questions we actually get
The four that come up every time
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. We come to you and drive it away, we come to you and tow it, we buy it remotely and arrange the tow, or you drive it to us. Payment is cash or electronic payment.
Sell your truck in Imperial Beach
Imperial Beach, Chula Vista, Coronado and the south bay. Tell us what you have and we will take it from there.
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