The corridor
One yard, two counties, and a line to the ports
La Mirada Yard is carried under BNSF Railway Company, and it sits 0.95 miles from the middle of town on the corridor that runs between the San Pedro Bay ports and the Inland Empire. That corridor is the reason most of the heavy traffic here exists.
The yard appears twice in the national records, as two rows 0.81 miles apart under the same carrier, one filed under Los Angeles County and one under Orange County. Read against every other yard in the country it is one yard whose track was split at the county line rather than two facilities, and the county disagreement is a symptom of that split. It is worth knowing only because it decides which county office you are dealing with, and the answer here is not as obvious as it looks.
On a port corridor, one registry travels with the truck
That corridor carries a rule most sellers have never had to think about until the day they sell. Internal-combustion drayage trucks had to be entered in the state drayage registry by 31 December 2023, and from 1 January 2024 only zero-emission drayage trucks could be newly registered. A truck already on the register may run to its minimum useful life — at least 13 years from the engine model year, up to 18 years or 800,000 miles, whichever comes first.
So the ability to work port drayage attaches to a truck’s registry history rather than to its build date, and that history cannot be recreated after the fact: an otherwise identical truck cannot now be given it. Separately, the Air Resources Board voted on 25 September 2025 to repeal the Advanced Clean Fleets drayage and high-priority fleet requirements, with final action required by 31 August 2026 and repeal expected to take effect on 1 January 2027, and has agreed to take no enforcement action under those provisions in the meantime. Those are two different instruments and the repeal does not by itself undo the registry position. If your truck is on the register, tell us — it is one of the few pieces of paper that matters more than the mileage.
What runs here
Corridor work, and the rules that change street by street
So whatever you drive, the offer does not change — we buy all of them. Along this corridor that means day cabs and road tractors on container work first, then flatbeds, box trucks on distribution, dump trucks off the construction sites, and pickups and work trucks everywhere.
One thing we did not establish and will not invent: the municipal truck rules differ across the several cities this corridor crosses — it runs through both Los Angeles County and Orange County — and we did not determine them. Buena Park, Whittier, Cerritos, Santa Fe Springs, Fullerton and Norwalk all carry pages of their own, and it is the same form whichever one you start on.
California weight law
The weight table here is not the federal one
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.
Questions we actually get
The four that come up every time
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. On this corridor 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.
Sell your truck in La Mirada
La Mirada, Buena Park, Cerritos, Santa Fe Springs and the corridor between the ports and the Inland Empire. Tell us what you have and we will take it from there.
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