Down the hill, southbound
Fuel terminals and the El Segundo Yard
The Energy Information Administration places a petroleum product terminal at El Segundo 6.2 miles south-west of Ladera Heights, and lists a second one under Los Angeles 8 miles to the south-east. A tank truck or fuel tractor kept on a Ladera Heights driveway between runs to those two terminals is the kind of truck we collect, and we come to the curb where it is parked.
El Segundo Yard, 6.3 miles south on the North American Rail Network kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, is close to the Los Angeles Air Force Base, which that Bureau puts 5.3 miles south. If your truck is stored at a yard down there rather than at home, send us the street address and the name of whoever holds the gate key, and we arrange the pickup at that yard.
Intermodal ramps east of the Heights
Two container ramps appear on the Bureau of Transportation Statistics list within a short drive: Lamar Street (LATC), 9.4 miles north-east, and Hobart, 10.3 miles east. Day cabs that shuttle boxes off those ramps are welcome here; give us the VIN and the odometer reading in the first message, and the rest of our questions follow from those two figures.
Los Angeles J Yard sits 7.9 miles east of Ladera Heights according to the North American Rail Network. For a tractor that has pulled chassis between J Yard, Hobart and Lamar Street, send photos of the cab, frame, fifth wheel and tires with your first message.
Drayage toward the Port of Los Angeles
The Port of Los Angeles is listed by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics 8.4 miles from Ladera Heights. A drayage tractor that has run between the port terminals and the Hobart or Lamar Street ramps is one we buy, whether it is kept at a port-area lot or on a street in the Heights.
Drayage work in California falls under state truck rules, and several of them have shifted. For a Ladera Heights owner with a port tractor, the drayage half of Advanced Clean Fleets now carries a repealed status from the California Air Resources Board, while that board’s Advanced Clean Trucks Regulation is marked contested. Federal court filings show enforcement of the 2036 zero-emission sales requirement for medium- and heavy-duty vehicles as paused. Ask us which of these touches your tractor and we will go through it with you.
Shop jobs and builders in the Heights
Of the 4,221 Ladera Heights jobs the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts tallied in 2023, manufacturing held 101, a 2.4 percent slice. Box trucks and straight trucks that served those shops can be sold from the address where they are kept.
Five Ladera Heights construction firms appear in the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns. A dump truck, flatbed or service body that worked for one of those contractors is a truck we take; tell us the body type and the equipment mounted on it when you get in touch.
Nursery and stable trucks in Los Angeles County
Potted flowering plants lead the Los Angeles County farm list, ahead of mushrooms and horses, across the 766 county farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture. Stake beds and refrigerated box trucks that hauled plants or mushrooms, and trucks that pulled horse trailers, fit what we purchase.
If a nursery or stable truck is parked on farm property rather than in Ladera Heights, give us that location and a contact on site. Have the title and current registration in the owner’s name ready, along with any service records, and the collection can be set up at the farm.
The questions we get asked in Ladera Heights
- My tractor sits near the El Segundo terminal, not at my house in Ladera Heights. Will your driver meet the truck at that terminal lot?The Energy Information Administration puts the El Segundo terminal 6.2 miles south-west of Ladera Heights, and we pick the truck up at that spot. Send the address and who can let our driver onto the lot.
- Do California’s clean truck rules stop me from selling my drayage tractor?The California Air Resources Board lists its Advanced Clean Fleets drayage requirements as repealed, and nothing in them is a bar to selling to us. Tell us the model year and engine, and we will talk through how the remaining rules apply to your truck.
- I ran containers between Hobart and the Port of Los Angeles. Which details open the conversation for a Hobart-to-port tractor?Hobart sits 10.3 miles east of Ladera Heights on the Bureau of Transportation Statistics list, and port trucks from that run are ones we buy. Lead with that tractor’s VIN and odometer figure, then add photos of the cab and frame from wherever it is parked.