We buy trucks in Lemon Cove

Lemoncove Granite works crushed and broken granite as a surface operation, and MSHA records 5 employees there. Its coordinates lie 1.12 miles from the Census 2024 Gazetteer centroid of this place, in Tulare County — close enough that the pit and the town share the same roads.

A five-person pit runs a small number of trucks for a long time. When one of them is sold, what it hauled and what has been replaced tells us more than the year on the door, and both are worth putting on the form.

Those loads meet no recorded restriction. Within ten miles the National Bridge Inventory records 67 structures, and not one of them is coded posted for load on item 41 or below legal loads on item 70. That is a measured zero rather than a missing record, and we would rather say which it is.

Read it next to who does the posting, though. Tulare County maintains 361 bridges — the largest county-maintained inventory this research has met in the state — and posts one of them. A clean sheet in a county that posts almost nothing is a weaker signal than the same sheet in a county that posts freely, and the record cannot tell you which kind you are looking at. If you are moving something heavy up a back road here, the county is still the tier to ring.

So whatever you drive, the offer does not change — we buy all of them. Along the Kaweah in Tulare County that means the pit’s dump trucks and aggregate haulers, farm trucks and flatbeds off the citrus, box trucks on distribution, and pickups and work trucks everywhere.

Exeter and Woodlake are the near towns, with Visalia west, Lindsay south and Three Rivers up the road towards the park; all five carry pages of their own. It is the same form whichever one you start on.

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.

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. Up the Kaweah 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.