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Julian · San Diego County · California

Sell your semi truck for cash in Julian the easy and convenient way

Julian sits in the back country of San Diego County, where the trucks registered locally are small-fleet vehicles that stay inside California.

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

Registered in the hills

A carrier roster that never crosses the state line

FMCSA’s carrier census lists 20 active carriers based in Julian, and every one of the 20 is recorded as intrastate, with none filed for interstate work. If your truck is one of those, tell us where it is kept in the mountains around town and we collect it there. Have the California registration card and the title together before you call.

Three of those Julian operators run private fleets on the same federal census, hauling their own goods rather than for hire. A private-fleet truck often comes with a shop log kept by the owner; send it along with photos of the cab, the frame and the tires, and the history arrives at the same time as the pictures.

Filed cargo types

Passengers, freight and farm supplies

Passenger carriage leads the cargo filings for Julian, with three carriers registered for it in FMCSA’s census, ahead of two for general freight and one each for farm supplies and for coal and coke. That mix means a bus or passenger van can be just as much a Julian work vehicle as a box truck, and we look at both. Tell us the seating layout or the body type first.

A farm-supplies hauler in these hills may be parked on a ranch rather than at a yard. Give us the gate details and a phone number for whoever holds the keys, and we arrange the pickup at that spot instead of asking you to move it.

Drivers who stay close to the mountain and those who roam

The driver records in FMCSA’s census split Julian’s drivers into eight who stay within a 100-mile radius and fifteen who range beyond it. A truck from the longer group could be sitting anywhere in the state when you decide to sell, so give us its current address, not the one on the registration.

On the same federal census the biggest local operator runs seven power units with four drivers, while the next two run a single truck apart. Whether you are selling one unit or several from a small Julian fleet, list each VIN separately so every truck is checked on its own.

Aggregate pits down the mountain

Turvey’s Granite Pit, a sand and gravel operation the Mine Safety and Health Administration lists about 20 miles south-west of town, sits close to Lakeside’s Vigilante Aggregates, roughly 23.5 miles out in the same direction. A dump truck or end-dump that has worked either site may be left on the pit’s lot; tell us who runs the gate so collection is arranged with them.

Six construction establishments appear for the area in the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns, which puts the local building trade at a handful of outfits. If your truck hauled rock from the Lakeside pits to their jobsites, send the inspection reports you kept for site access along with the photos.

Military land north-west

Back roads past the Warner Springs training site

To the north-west, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics places the Warner Springs Rts military installation about 18.7 miles from Julian. A truck kept out along that stretch can stay where it is parked; send a pin or a cross-street and we route the collection to it.

An owner who has moved away can still sell from wherever they now live. Name a neighbour or caretaker who can let us reach the truck, and the rest is handled by phone and email.

Down the hill at Community Road in Poway

California titles are issued by the State of California Department of Motor Vehicles through its DMV field offices, and the nearest to Julian is the Poway office at 13461 Community Road, Poway, 92064, about 27.3 miles away. If the title has gone missing, that is the office that handles a replacement, so start the request there before we arrange the pickup.

Bring the registration and your ID when you visit Poway, and check that the name on the title matches the seller’s. A lienholder still listed on it needs a release before the truck changes hands.

Three state rules for Julian diesel owners

The state’s Advanced Clean Trucks Regulation is contested, according to the air board’s amendment notice. Separately, a federal court filing shows that enforcement is on hold for the state’s 2036 requirement that all new medium- and heavy-duty sales be zero-emission.

For drayage, high-priority and federal fleets, the Advanced Clean Fleets requirements have been repealed, the board’s rulemaking record shows. A Julian owner weighing a sale can read those three notices directly.

The questions we get asked in Julian

  • The truck sits on a ranch road above Julian; will you fetch it from there?Julian’s 20 carriers are all intrastate on FMCSA’s census, and a truck kept on a ranch near town is collected from the ranch itself. Send the ranch address, the gate code and a caretaker’s number.
  • Which office replaces a Julian owner’s missing certificate of title?Poway’s DMV field office, 27.3 miles down from Julian at 13461 Community Road, is the closest State of California Department of Motor Vehicles counter for a duplicate.
  • Do you buy passenger vehicles as well as freight trucks?Passenger carriage tops Julian’s cargo filings in FMCSA’s census, with three carriers, so buses and passenger vans are on our list alongside freight trucks.

Sell your truck in Julian

Julian looks south-west to the Lakeside gravel pits, north-west to Warner Springs and down the mountain to the Poway DMV office, and we collect trucks anywhere along those roads.