We buy trucks in Maywood

Hobart Yard is the largest intermodal rail facility in the western United States. It handles up to 1.5 million lifts a year across 243 acres, with 52,000 feet of production track, 30 cranes, 2,200 wheeled parking stalls and 1,475 on-site stacking spaces. BNSF states that Hobart and its Commerce facility together handle the world’s largest amount of domestic intermodal freight.

Every one of those lifts is a container going onto or off a truck. There is no other way a box gets from a stack to a customer, so a facility that size is a road facility as much as a rail one.

Those numbers come with a caution. The Hobart Yard coordinate falls inside Vernon, not here — this is a city of about 27,000 that does not contain it — and the East Yard coordinate falls inside Commerce. Both of those cities carry pages of their own.

So the honest statement is that the largest intermodal facility in the western states is filed against a small residential city next door to it. It is close enough to matter to anyone driving out of here and it is not in the city limits, and both halves of that are worth saying.

So whatever you drive, the offer does not change — we buy all of them. Living beside the Vernon and Commerce yards means day cabs and road tractors in numbers, running short repetitive container cycles rather than distance, with box trucks and straight trucks on the local delivery end.

The old Central Manufacturing District is right there too, so flatbeds move machinery and dump trucks cover the construction. Pickups and work trucks are everywhere. Los Angeles, Vernon and Commerce all carry pages of their own, and the same trucks work across all of them.

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.