We buy trucks in Lomita

Five rail rows in our data are attached to this city and every one of them sits physically inside Los Angeles, down at the harbour. This is a Palos Verdes peninsula suburb, not a port city, and a page that counted those rows would say otherwise.

It is a known artefact rather than a one-off. Twelve of Pacific Harbor Line’s twenty-two rows statewide are attached to a city other than the one containing them, and all twelve are inside Los Angeles — five here, five under Rolling Hills Estates, one under West Carson and one under Long Beach.

Those rows do not even count straight among themselves. Within this cluster, Berth 200 Pier A Yard and Pier A Yard look like one facility recorded twice, and Berth 200 Transfer Yard and Transfer Yard look like another — duplicate pairs distinguished by a prefix rather than by anything real. Five rows here are plausibly three facilities.

The operator behind them is worth knowing even though it is not here. Pacific Harbor Line provides neutral rail switching throughout the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles, along with dispatching and track maintenance, over more than 19 miles of standard-gauge track in the largest container port in the United States.

So whatever you drive, the offer does not change — we buy all of them. Take the misfiled harbour rows out and what is left on this stretch of the peninsula is domestic and service work: pickups and work trucks, box trucks and straight trucks on delivery rounds, flatbeds and day cabs on the contracting side, dump trucks where there is groundwork.

The harbour is close enough that plenty of people here drive to it for work, so drayage tractors do get sold from these streets. Rolling Hills Estates and Torrance carry pages of their own, and Los Angeles carries the one most of those port rows should have been filed against.

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. We come to you and drive it away, we come to you and tow it, we buy it remotely and arrange the tow, or you drive it to us. Payment is cash or electronic payment.