Mark West side
Mark West Quarry and the haul out of the hills
Up the road toward the Mark West hills, 6.1 miles east of Larkfield-Wikiup, the Mine Safety and Health Administration lists Mark West Quarry as a crushed-stone pit. A truck that has run aggregate out of that pit is often still parked at a yard or a home lot near town, and that is where we pick it up. Send the address and say whether a tractor or a lowboy can get to it.
If your dump truck or end dump has spent its working life on the Mark West run, gather the title, the current California registration and any service invoices before you call. Add photos of the bed, the hoist, the frame rails and the cab, and give us the VIN so the questions that follow are about your truck alone.
Blue Rock Quarry, nine miles the other way
West of the community, Blue Rock Quarry is another crushed-stone site, listed 9.1 miles out by the Mine Safety and Health Administration. Owners who hauled from Blue Rock and Mark West both tend to know their trucks by the loads they carried; tell us which quarry the truck served and what it pulled, and we will ask about the rest.
Transfer trucks and super dumps that worked the west side do not need to be driven into Santa Rosa or anywhere else for us to see them. Leave the truck where it sits, name someone who can open the gate, and handle the paperwork with us by phone and email.
Roblar and the gravel south of town
Roblar Quarry LLC, a sand and gravel operation, appears in Mine Safety and Health Administration records 13.8 miles south of Larkfield-Wikiup. Bottom dumps, belly dumps and pup trailers that ran gravel up from Roblar are part of what we purchase, tractor and trailer together or each on its own.
For a set of doubles, give us the VIN of the tractor and the serial plate details of each trailer, plus the title or registration card for every unit. Photos of the gates, the tires and the hitch points let us match what we see with what you describe.
Contractors and building crews around Wikiup
Of the 3,374 Larkfield-Wikiup jobs in the Census Bureau’s 2023 LEHD job counts, 317 sit in construction, which works out to 9.4 percent. Contractors who run a flatbed, a stake bed, a water truck or a small dump for that work can sell one unit or several, and we collect each from the job site or shop where it is parked.
That same 2023 LEHD release lists 52 jobs here, or 1.5 percent, in transportation and warehousing. Owner-operators in that group who keep a single tractor at home should have the title in their own name and the registration current; if the title shows a lender, tell us at the start so the lien release is part of the plan.
Dairy and ranch country
Milk, cattle and cut flowers across the county
USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 3,097 farms in Sonoma County, with milk, cattle and cut flowers and cultivated greens at the top of its product list. Milk tankers, livestock haulers, feed trucks and refrigerated box trucks that serve those farms are all trucks we buy from owners around Larkfield-Wikiup.
A truck kept on a dairy or ranch is usually collected right from the farm. Tell us how the gate and the yard are laid out, and whether the ground will take a heavy truck in winter, so the pickup is planned for where the truck actually stands.
The questions we get asked in Larkfield-Wikiup
- Would you take a milk tanker that has hauled for Sonoma County dairies off Larkfield-Wikiup’s hands?Milk tops the product list for Sonoma County’s 3,097 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, and tankers serving those dairies are trucks we purchase. A VIN, the title, and pictures of the barrel and the cab are enough to begin.
- What paperwork should a contractor here have ready?With 317 construction jobs in Larkfield-Wikiup in the Census Bureau’s 2023 LEHD counts, many sellers here are contractors; have the title, the current registration and any service records for each truck, and tell us if a lender is still on the title.