We buy trucks in Maricopa

MSHA records 86 employees at the Maricopa Plant, working crushed and broken stone, and its coordinates lie 2.29 miles from the Census 2024 Gazetteer centroid of the city, in Kern County. Eighty-six is a large crew for this trade. Most of the pits on this side of the valley run five or ten people; this one runs the population of a small street.

That size changes what comes up for sale. A plant with that many people runs shift work and replaces equipment on a schedule rather than when something finally breaks, so trucks leave it with life still in them. If yours came off a site like that, its maintenance history is the thing worth telling us about.

Those hauls cross no recorded restriction at all. Within ten miles the National Bridge Inventory records 19 structures, and not one 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.

Nineteen structures is a thin network, though, and thin networks are what the open west side of Kern County looks like: not many crossings, because there is not much to cross. A clean sheet across nineteen carries less weight than the same sheet across four hundred, and it says nothing about the unpaved lease roads that carry a good deal of the traffic out here and appear in no bridge file at all.

So whatever you drive, the offer does not change — we buy all of them. On this side of Kern County that means oilfield work trucks and service bodies first, then tankers, the plant’s dump trucks and aggregate haulers, flatbeds moving plant and pipe, and pickups everywhere.

Taft is the town up the road, with Taft Heights and Ford City beside it and McKittrick north; all four carry pages of their own, and Bakersfield is the city they all answer to. 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.