Dairy routes, feed hauls and ranch gates
USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 1,255 farms in Madera County and ranks milk, cattle and corn as its top products. A tanker tractor that ran dairy pickups, a straight truck that moved feed, or a livestock hauler kept at a ranch gate all fit what we collect. Tell us which of those jobs your truck did and whether it still sits on the farm, and we will route the pickup to that yard.
Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting account for 194 jobs, or 22.1 percent of the 877 jobs located in Madera Acres in 2023, according to the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts. A truck from that work may be titled to a ranch or a family operation. Before you call, check whose name is printed on the California title; that person or entity signs it over.
Foothill stone
Quarries east of town toward the Sierra
Austin Quarry, a crushed-stone operation, lies 12.2 miles east of Madera Acres in the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s mine listings. Dump trucks and end-dump tractors that shuttled rock out of a pit like that often spend their idle months parked on site. If yours is still behind a quarry gate, give us the gate contact and the hours someone can let our driver in.
Further out, the Mine Safety and Health Administration records Sierra White, a dimension-stone quarry, 18.3 miles to the north-east, and the Rockfield Plant, a sand and gravel operation, 19.8 miles east. Flatbeds that carried cut slabs and transfer trucks that pulled aggregate both belong on our list. Photograph the bed or the body along with the cab and the VIN plate so the pictures match the truck we arrive to load.
Construction crews based around Madera Acres
Construction holds 153 jobs here, 17.4 percent of the local total, by the Census Bureau’s LEHD figures for 2023. Water trucks, small dumps and service bodies from those crews often sit at a contractor’s yard between jobs. Write down the yard address and the unit number on the door so our driver finds the right vehicle among several.
Contractors are thick on the ground here: 57 construction establishments appear in the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns for the Madera Acres area. If your company is closing out a few units at once, send one list with each VIN, its title status and where it is parked, and we can plan the collection as a single trip.
Rail south-east
Rail freight down the valley at Fresno
Drive 20.4 miles south-east of Madera Acres and you reach the Fresno Yard, a rail yard mapped in the North American Rail Network kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Day cabs that worked between the valley’s farms and that rail yard can be collected wherever they now park, whether that is in Fresno, in Madera or out on a ranch road.
A tractor kept down near the yard can stay there while you handle the sale from Madera Acres. Give us the street address, the name of whoever controls the lot, and a phone number for the person holding the keys.
Model years on trucks inspected nearby
Of the 367 trucks that roadside inspectors checked around Madera Acres from August 2024 to August 2026, half were model year 2018 or newer and 34.06 percent were ten or more years old, per FMCSA roadside inspection records. Whichever end of that range your truck falls in, the steps for selling it are the same.
Have the VIN, the odometer reading and the current registration card ready when you reach us. Service invoices and any inspection reports help too, but if they are missing, describe what the truck hauled and where, and we will ask about the rest.
Getting the California title and lien release in order
A lost California title is replaced through the state’s title agency, and a duplicate should be in hand before the truck is signed over. If a farm loan or equipment lender still holds a lien, ask them for a release letter now, since the title cannot pass without it.
Keep the registration with the truck, along with the keys, and note whether a second set exists. For a tanker that hauled milk, send any wash or sanitation logs you kept along with the photos.
The questions we get asked in Madera Acres
- Our end-dump sits inside the Austin Quarry fence. Does it have to leave the crushed-stone site before you load it?Austin Quarry, 12.2 miles east according to the Mine Safety and Health Administration, is the kind of site we collect from. Give us the gate contact and the hours the site is open, and our driver loads the truck where it stands.
- Our milk tanker is titled to the dairy, not to me personally. Which signature goes on the transfer?Madera County’s dairy and cattle operations, 1,255 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, often title trucks to the business. Whoever is named on the California title signs it, so an officer or partner of the farm handles that step.
- The Madera Acres truck’s title has gone missing somewhere on the ranch. How is a replacement issued?California’s title agency issues duplicate titles for trucks registered in Madera Acres, in Madera County. Request one before the sale, and bring a lien release if a lender is still listed.