We buy trucks in Jurupa Valley

One of the two rail rows filed against this city names a Union Pacific auto transfer terminal, which means finished vehicles are unloaded from autoracks here for regional delivery. Both rows sit at Mira Loma, in the western Inland Empire.

An auto transfer terminal is a road business at its outbound end by definition. A car that arrives on a train leaves on a car hauler, so this is one of the few node types in our data where the truck movement follows from the facility’s own function rather than from an inference.

That corner of Mira Loma sits inside one of the densest warehouse concentrations in the world, 60 to 70 miles from the San Pedro Bay ports. Current volumes and operating status at the terminal itself were not determined, so this page describes the district rather than the gate count.

Sixty-odd miles from the port is the distance that defines the work here. It is too far to be drayage and too close to be linehaul, so the runs are long day-trips — loaded out, empty back, twice if it goes well.

So whatever you drive, the offer does not change — we buy all of them. Car haulers and rollbacks work the auto terminal; day cabs and road tractors run the Inland Empire warehouse floor; box trucks and straight trucks do the local end.

Aggregate and construction put dump trucks and flatbeds on the same roads, and pickups and work trucks are everywhere. Eastvale, Norco and Riverside carry pages of their own, and the San Pedro Bay runs pass through all of them.

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.