We buy trucks in Marysville

Four mine operations are filed to this place, all of them in Yuba County. The Hallwood Plant under Knife River Const runs 11 employees, Western Aggregates runs 18 and Silica Resources runs 10, all three on construction sand and gravel; the Parks Bar Quarry under Nordic Industries runs 7 on crushed and broken stone. That is 46 people across four sites.

They are not all in the same place, though. Parks Bar sits 14.22 miles from the Census 2024 Gazetteer centroid of the city, up towards the foothills, while the sand and gravel plants work the river ground near the town. That gap is the reason the next section is about bridges rather than about rock.

Those foothill miles are the exception in California. Within ten miles of the Parks Bar pit the National Bridge Inventory records 54 structures, of which 5 are coded posted for load on item 41 and 5 are coded below legal loads on item 70 — 9.3%, against a statewide 1.4%. And the nearest of them is 1.38 miles away, which is the closest this research has measured in California.

Two things about it are worth knowing before you load. The binding structure carries Timbuctoo Road, and the commercial floor here is 13.9 metric tonnes: since an empty tandem dump weighs about 11.0 tonnes and item 64 records the gross weight of the rating vehicle, that admits roughly 2.9 tonnes of stone. Part loaded, in other words, not loaded. The other thing is who posted them — only 2 of the 5 are county-maintained, which makes this the one site in its batch where the county tier does not hold everything, and Yuba County posts 6 of the 75 bridges it does maintain.

Read it as an upper bound rather than a promise. That floor is the minimum inside a ten-mile circle, and at 64.1% of the sites measured this way a tighter crossing turns up between ten miles and twenty. If your truck is up that way and loaded, tell us where it is and we will work the route out first.

So whatever you drive, the offer does not change — we buy all of them. Across Yuba County that means the pits’ dump trucks and aggregate haulers first, then farm trucks off the orchards and rice ground, flatbeds moving plant, box trucks on distribution, and pickups and work trucks everywhere.

Yuba City is across the river, with Linda and Olivehurst south and Wheatland beyond them; 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 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 — and if it is parked past a posted crossing, remote is usually simplest. Payment is cash or electronic payment.