We buy trucks at March ARB

The reserve base here is carried as active, and its coordinate resolves to a point 0.03 miles from the centre of the census place of the same name — effectively on top of it. That is unusual. Most installations sit inside somebody else’s town; a handful are their own place on the map, and this is one of the ten in that group.

It matters for a practical reason rather than a trivial one. When a base is its own place, the streets, the traffic and the trades around it belong to the base rather than to a town that happens to have a base nearby. The trucks here are the ones that serve it: contractors, base support, and local haulage in Riverside County. That work runs short and heavy, which usually means high hours against modest mileage, and both are worth telling us.

Those tight resolutions tempt an inference that does not hold up. Of the ten installations that are their own census place, seven have a page on this site and three do not, and nothing in the record predicts which is which — not the distance, not the status, and not the component, which here is the Air Force Reserve. A base resolving at three-hundredths of a mile is not thereby more important than one resolving at two miles; it means the mapmakers drew the place around the fence.

The county is worth stating the same way. Riverside County here was derived by reverse-geocoding this row’s own coordinate rather than read from a source field, so it is exactly as good as that coordinate and no better. It is right, but the way we know it is part of the answer.

So whatever you drive, the offer does not change — we buy all of them. Around the base that means flatbeds and box trucks on contractor and supply work first, then day cabs and road tractors on the inland warehouse runs, dump trucks and work trucks off local construction, and pickups everywhere.

Moreno Valley is north and Perris south, with Riverside itself west and Mead Valley across the freeway; all four 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. Around the base 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.