Crushed stone off the hills past Lake Sherwood
Pacific Rock Inc quarries crushed stone 8.5 miles north-west of the lake, in the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s mine listings. A dump truck or transfer rig that loads at a quarry like that is often parked at a contractor’s lot nearer the pit than the lake, so give us that yard’s address rather than your home address when you get in touch.
Farther up, at 16.9 miles north-east, the Canyon Rock Plant appears in Mine Safety and Health Administration records as an industrial-mineral mine. If your truck has hauled from both sites, say which one it ran to most and send photos of the body, the tailgate and the cab together, plus the VIN plate, so our questions start from the right truck.
Two sand and gravel operations due north of town
Moorpark Quarry and Grimes Rock, a CalPortland Company site, are both sand and gravel operations 14.1 miles north of Lake Sherwood, according to the Mine Safety and Health Administration. Bottom dumps, end dumps and super tens that shuttle between those two pits and job sites in the Conejo Valley are exactly the kind of truck we buy here.
Before you call, find the registration card and any service invoices from whichever shop has kept the truck going, since a rig hauling gravel out of Moorpark tends to have a folder of them. Photos of the frame rails and the odometer let us match what you tell us to what is in the pictures.
Coast and rail
Point Mugu, Channel Islands and the Oxnard yards
To the west, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics places Channel Islands ANG Station 12.9 miles from Lake Sherwood and the Naval Base Ventura County Point Mugu Operating Facility 13 miles out. A truck that has run contract loads onto either installation can still be collected wherever it is parked now; tell us the street address and whether a tow rig can reach it without a gate pass.
Rail freight comes in a little farther on: OXNARD YARD lies 16.9 miles west and INDUSTRIAL PLAZA YARD 17.1 miles west on the North American Rail Network kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Day cabs that pull boxes or flatbeds off those yards usually come with a log of where they went, and that history helps when you describe the tractor to us.
Flowers, greens and propagation stock across Ventura County
From Lake Sherwood out to the Oxnard plain, growers in Ventura County ran 1,812 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, with potted flowering plants, cut flowers and cultivated greens, and propagative material leading the list. Box trucks and reefer straight trucks that move nursery stock fit what we purchase, and a liftgate or a reefer unit should show up in the photos you send.
If the truck spends the season parked at a greenhouse or a growing ground rather than at your house, tell us the farm road and the gate it sits behind. Have the title and the current registration with you on collection day, even if the truck itself stays out at the nursery.
Lost a pink slip? Thousand Oaks handles it
The State of California Department of Motor Vehicles handles titles through its DMV field offices, and the closest one to Lake Sherwood is the Thousand Oaks office at 1810 E Avenida De Los Arboles, Thousand Oaks, 91362, which the DMV’s own listing puts 5.9 miles from town. If your title is missing, that is where a duplicate is requested before the sale goes through.
Should the truck be registered under a business, bring something showing you can sign for that company, and if a lender still appears on the title, have the lien release on hand. With that sorted, the paperwork at pickup is a signature and a handover of keys.
California’s clean-truck rules, as they stand for sellers here
The California Air Resources Board’s Advanced Clean Trucks Regulation is contested, and a federal court record shows enforcement paused on the Board’s 2036 100 Percent Medium- and Heavy-Duty Zero-Emission Vehicle Sales Requirements. You can sell a diesel truck from Lake Sherwood to us while those questions play out.
Lake Sherwood owners following the fleet side should know the Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation - Drayage Fleet Requirements and High Priority and Federal Fleets Requirements has been repealed. Tell us the engine model year when you contact us, since that is the first detail these rules turn on.
The questions we get asked in Lake Sherwood
- Is Lake Sherwood too small for you to come out?Lake Sherwood counted 267 jobs in 2023 on the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts, and its size makes no difference to us: we collect from the house, a contractor’s yard or a quarry lot, wherever the truck is.
- I can’t find the pink slip for my truck. Where around Lake Sherwood do I sort that out?The Thousand Oaks DMV field office at 1810 E Avenida De Los Arboles, 5.9 miles from Lake Sherwood, is where the State of California Department of Motor Vehicles takes duplicate title requests.
- My dump truck stays at a Moorpark gravel pit; will you pick it up from the pit itself?Moorpark Quarry and Grimes Rock sit 14.1 miles north of Lake Sherwood per the Mine Safety and Health Administration, and we can collect at either site if the operator lets a tow truck onto the lot.
- Do you take nursery box trucks and reefers?Ventura County’s 1,812 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture lean toward potted plants and cut flowers, and the straight trucks and reefers that serve them are trucks we buy; send photos of the box and the reefer unit.