We buy trucks in McFarland

The Famoso Yard is carried under the Union Pacific Railroad Company, and its coordinates lie 4.97 miles from the centroid of this place, in Kern County. It does not sit in a town at all: the coordinate falls outside any incorporated place, on open farm ground between the highway and the tracks.

That is worth knowing if you are selling something parked near it. A yard with no town around it has no municipal street to be towed down and no city yard to deal with — which usually makes the collection simpler rather than harder, whichever way we end up doing it.

That coordinate is close to all we have. No facility-level source was found for the Union Pacific Railroad Company yard, so what we hold about the surrounding district is county-level context rather than anything about traffic through this yard, and we are not going to dress one up as the other.

Two rules we did not determine matter more here than the traffic does. California’s agricultural weight provisions are not extracted into the state rule file we work from; neither are the regional air-district heavy-duty requirements that apply in this part of the valley. Neither absence is established — we did not look them up, which is a different thing from finding nothing. In farm country in Kern County both are live questions, so if your truck ran on farm plates or was subject to a district rule, tell us what it ran under.

So whatever you drive, the offer does not change — we buy all of them. In the north of Kern County that means farm trucks and flatbeds off the almonds, grapes and citrus first, then day cabs and road tractors on the Central Valley freight runs, dump trucks on local work, box trucks on distribution, and pickups and work trucks everywhere.

Delano is next door with Richgrove and Earlimart north, Wasco west and Shafter south, and Bakersfield down the road; all of them 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. 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.