We buy trucks in Linden

The Waverly pit is a surface operation working industrial sand, operator of record San Joaquin County Aggregates, and the Mine Safety and Health Administration records 4 employees there. Industrial sand is a different trade from the sand and gravel that goes into concrete: it ships further, because it freight stops being the thing that decides the haul.

That shows up in the trucks. A pit shipping industrial sand out of the east San Joaquin runs longer legs than a local aggregate plant does, so the mileage on a truck off one of these sites is often high while the duty cycle is easy. Both are worth telling us, because together they say something the odometer alone does not.

Those sites sit inside Part 46 of the federal mine rules, which covers sand, gravel, surface stone, surface clay, surface limestone, colloidal phosphate and shell dredging. Part 46 requires site-specific hazard awareness training for over-the-road delivery drivers before they work at each mine site — each one, separately. If you have hauled into pits for a living you already know this; if you are selling the truck that did, it is part of why its hours look the way they do.

The other thing about industrial sand is the dust. The Mine Safety and Health Administration’s respirable crystalline silica rule sets a permissible exposure limit of 50 micrograms per cubic metre and an action level of half that, and the metal and nonmetal compliance date of 8 April 2026 is now past. That bites hardest at a site like this one, where the commodity is substantially silica by design rather than a rock that happens to contain some. We found no measured exposure figure for San Joaquin County Aggregates and we are not going to invent one — the rule is a property of the material, and that is all we are saying about it.

So whatever you drive, the offer does not change — we buy all of them. Out here in the east of San Joaquin County that means farm trucks off the cherries and walnuts first, then dump trucks and aggregate haulers out of San Joaquin County Aggregates, flatbeds moving plant and bins, box trucks on distribution, and pickups and work trucks everywhere.

Stockton is west and Lodi north, with Escalon and Ripon down towards the Stanislaus; all four carry pages of their own, and this corner of the Central Valley is a short drive from any of them. 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. Out here 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.