We buy trucks in Kelseyville

MSHA records 4 employees at the quarry here, in Lake County, and its coordinates lie 4.85 miles from the centroid of this place. Four people is a pit that runs when there is work, and around a lake that mostly means roadwork and building.

Small operations keep their equipment a long time and know it well. If your truck came off one, the useful things to tell us are what it hauled and what has been replaced, rather than what the odometer says.

Those roads carry nothing on the record. Within ten miles the National Bridge Inventory records 54 structures, and not one is coded posted for load on item 41 or below legal loads on item 70.

Zeros like that are common in this state and it is worth knowing how common. Ten of the twenty California nodes measured in one batch came out clean, on networks running from 8 structures to 304 — and some of the counties behind those zeros post nothing at all: Santa Barbara none of 106, Ventura none of 84, Inyo none of 33, while Tulare maintains 361 and posts one. A zero can mean a clear road or it can mean a county that does not post, and the record cannot always tell you which.

So whatever you drive, the offer does not change — we buy all of them. Round the lake, in Lake County, that means the quarry’s dump trucks and aggregate haulers, farm trucks off the orchards and vineyards, flatbeds moving plant, box trucks on distribution, and pickups and work trucks everywhere.

Lakeport is up the shore, with Lower Lake and Clearlake round the other side, and all three carry pages of their own. It is the same form whichever one you start on.

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. Round the lake we can come to you and drive it away, come to you and tow it, buy it remotely and arrange the tow, or you can drive it to us. Payment is cash or electronic payment.