We buy trucks in Kennedy

The Stockton Intermodal Terminal is carried under BNSF Railway Company, and its coordinates lie 4.38 miles from the centroid of this place, in San Joaquin County. Just south of it the two main lines cross on the flat: the east-west BNSF route over the north-south Union Pacific route, at the crossing the railroads call the Stockton Diamond.

The US Department of Transportation permitting record describes that crossing as the busiest and most congested at-grade rail junction in the state. What that means on the road is a lot of waiting at a lot of gates, and trucks that spend their working lives in short, hard, stop-start miles rather than long easy ones. If yours did, say so on the form — hours and duty cycle tell us more about a truck here than the odometer does.

Those two lines will not stay on the flat. A grade separation with an estimated construction cost of $237 million will carry the north-south Union Pacific track over the east-west BNSF track on a new structure just east of where they cross now.

It is further along than a drawing. The San Joaquin Council of Governments approved $14 million towards the work and finalised that funding at its board meeting on 27 February 2025. We are not going to guess when the work reaches any particular street, and we are not going to tell you what it does to your truck — but a yard district in the middle of a rebuild is a place where equipment gets moved on, and that is the part we can help with.

So whatever you drive, the offer does not change — we buy all of them. Around an intermodal terminal in San Joaquin County that means day cabs and road tractors on drayage first, then dump trucks and aggregate haulers, flatbeds moving steel and plant, box trucks on distribution, and pickups and work trucks everywhere.

Stockton is next door, with Lodi north, Manteca and Lathrop south and French Camp between them; all five 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. Around the yards 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.