A truck that has hauled ore, timber or supplies on that run may be parked at the mine yard rather than at your house, so give us the gate location and the name of whoever can let a driver in.
Further along the same south-east line, MT. GAINES MINE appears in Mine Safety and Health Administration records as a sand and gravel operation 12.8 miles out. If your gravel truck stays at those pits between loads, tell us which bay or lot it sits in and send a photo of the door sticker with the VIN.
Gravel and crushed stone toward the valley
Heading west, 7/11 Materials Inc runs a sand and gravel operation that the Mine Safety and Health Administration places 15.1 miles from town. If your end dump or transfer truck works out of that yard, add a note of the exit you use off the highway when you first write to us.
North-west of the lake, the Mine Safety and Health Administration lists Table Mountain Plant & Quarry as a crushed-stone quarry 19.2 miles away. Rock haulers that load there often carry a quarry pass or scale tickets in the cab; leave those with the truck, along with the registration card, and the driver who collects it has everything in one place.
Quarry to the north
Sierra Rock Products north of the reservoir
SIERRA ROCK PRODUCTS, a crushed-stone quarry, sits 20.2 miles north of Lake Don Pedro on Mine Safety and Health Administration listings. A truck parked at a quarry that far out can be collected right where it stands, provided someone on site knows it is leaving.
Before booking a pickup at any of these rock sites, take four photos: both sides of the truck, the dash with the ignition on, and the plate. Quarry trucks look alike from a distance, and clear pictures let us confirm we are collecting the right unit from a crowded lot.
The State of California Department of Motor Vehicles lists its Sonora field office at 885 Morning Star Drive, Sonora, 95370, which is 23.7 miles from Lake Don Pedro.
If the pink slip has gone missing, start the duplicate request at Sonora before we schedule collection, and bring your registration and a photo ID. When a bank or lender is still printed on the title as lienholder, ask them for a signed lien release and take it along to Sonora with the duplicate request.
Mariposa County had 388 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, and cattle, equine and goats lead its listed livestock. Stock trucks, flatbeds for hay and pickups pulling horse trailers are all part of that work, and we buy the trucks whether they sit at a barn or along a ranch road.
Ranch vehicles are sometimes titled to a family trust or a ranch business instead of a person. Check whose name is printed on the title before you call, and if it is a business, have someone with signing authority available on the day we collect.
Builders in the hills
Construction outfits around the lake
Small contractors like those run dump trucks, utility bodies and flatbeds that may be stored at a job site on a lakeside lot rather than at a shop.
If a contractor’s truck carries equipment racks, a toolbox or a lift gate, list them when you write to us, and remove any personal tools you want to keep before the driver arrives. Mention any locked gate or tight driveway on the way in as well.
The Advanced Clean Trucks Regulation is contested, according to the state’s published notice on its amendments. Separately, the drayage, high priority and federal fleet requirements of the Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation have been repealed in a later state rulemaking.
Lake Don Pedro sellers do not need to resolve any of that before selling a diesel truck to us. Keep your registration current and have the title in your name, and the sale itself follows the normal State of California Department of Motor Vehicles transfer.
The questions we get asked in Lake Don Pedro
- Do you buy stock trucks and hay haulers from Mariposa County ranches?Mariposa County ranches raise cattle, horses and goats, according to USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, and the trucks that move that livestock and feed are ones we purchase. Tell us whose name is on the title and where the truck is kept.