We buy trucks in Jamestown

MSHA records 4 employees at Sierra Rock Products and 14 at the Table Mountain Plant & Quarry. They sit 2.82 miles and 7.29 miles from the centroid of this place, so one is on the doorstep and the other is a genuine drive out.

A four-person pit and a fourteen-person plant are different businesses even when they work the same rock. The equipment turns over differently, the haul cycle is different, and a truck coming out of either has had a different life.

That difference carries onto the road. Within ten miles of Sierra Rock Products the 2025 National Bridge Inventory records 51 structures, one posted for load and one coded below legal loads, with the nearest 9.51 miles away. Within ten miles of the plant it records 35 structures and not one restricted at all.

Two operations a few miles apart, and only one of them has a crossing to think about. That is the argument for reading a node rather than a county average: Tuolumne County posts one of the 54 bridges it maintains, and that single figure describes neither of these two usefully.

So whatever you drive, the offer does not change — we buy all of them. Aggregate work in Tuolumne County puts dump trucks, aggregate haulers and mixers on these roads, with flatbeds moving plant and day cabs running loads down towards the valley.

The Sierra Nevada foothills are hard country for a truck — grade work, loaded, repeatedly — and brakes and driveline carry that in a way flat running does not. Sonora and Twain Harte carry pages of their own, and pickups and work trucks are everywhere.

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. 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.