Sell your semi truck for cash in Millbrae the easy and convenient way

FMCSA’s carrier census lists 77 active motor carriers in Millbrae, and 68 of them are registered for intrastate work against 8 for interstate. If your tractor or box truck has spent its life on California roads, have the California registration card in the cab when we come to collect, along with the title in the name on that registration.

Of those Millbrae carriers, 11 run as private fleets hauling their own goods, again according to the FMCSA census. A company truck from a private fleet sells the same way as a for-hire one: the person signing needs authority to sign for the business, so bring a letter or resolution naming who can transfer the title.

Two new carriers registered in Millbrae in 2025 and four in 2024, by the count in FMCSA’s census. If you started an operation recently and are closing it, keep the purchase paperwork from when you bought the truck; it settles questions about the lien before they come up.

General freight is the cargo listed by 17 Millbrae carriers in the FMCSA census, with 7 carrying passengers. Straight trucks, tractors and buses all fit what we buy; send the VIN and photos of each side and the interior so we know which body we are looking at.

Four local carriers list refrigerated food and four list meat as cargo, per the federal carrier census. With a reefer unit, photograph the unit’s plate and hour meter along with the trailer or body, and include any service records for the refrigeration side, since those travel with the truck.

FMCSA’s carrier census shows the biggest fleet based here at 32 power units and 28 drivers, the next at 8 units and 4 drivers, and a third at 3 units and 4 drivers. Selling several units at once is fine; list each VIN and where each one is parked, and we plan collection around the addresses.

FMCSA roadside inspection records from August 2024 through August 2026 cover 26 trucks tied to Millbrae carriers, with a median model year of 2022.5 and 7.7 percent of them a decade old or more. Whatever year yours is, have the title and current registration ready and tell us the model year and engine when you get in touch.

For the 8 local carriers that report mileage, the median sits at 24,500 miles per truck, according to the FMCSA carrier census. Read the odometer before you call and include a photo of it; that figure goes on the title transfer either way.

The National Bridge Inventory counts 36 bridges in the Millbrae area, none of them load-posted, and 3 with clearance under 14 feet. When you tell us where the truck is parked, mention any low overpass or garage on the way in so the collection vehicle takes a route that clears.

Lowest on the Federal Highway Administration’s list is structure 35C0185, a garage connector over a north and south garage, at 8 ft 5 in. A truck stored in or near a parking structure needs a clear exit path, so say so up front and send a photo of the access.

The South San Francisco Yard lies 4.1 miles north on the North American Rail Network, and the Brisbane petroleum product terminal, as listed by the Energy Information Administration, sits 6.5 miles north. A truck that has worked those sites can stay where it is parked; give us the address and a contact who can let us in.

Further out, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics places the Pier 80 roll-on/roll-off terminal at the Port of San Francisco 10.5 miles north, the Port of Oakland 12.1 miles north-east and the Redwood City port 11.9 miles south-east. The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists Pier 92 Marine Aggregate, a sand and gravel operation, 10.2 miles north. If your dump truck or tractor is kept at one of those yards, tell us whose lot it is on.

Pillar Point Space Force Station is 8.7 miles south-west on the Bureau of Transportation Statistics list. For a truck sitting on a controlled site, arrange gate access in advance and give us the name of the person who will meet the driver.

Of Millbrae’s 5,409 jobs in 2023, construction held 192, manufacturing 152, transportation and warehousing 94 and wholesale trade 69, going by the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts. Builders account for 57 establishments in the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns for the area around Millbrae. Contractors selling a dump, flatbed or service body truck should have the title and any equipment records for the body together.

San Mateo County had 250 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, with potted flowering plants, mushrooms and foliage plants leading the list. A farm truck sells with the same papers as any other; if it carries farm plates, tell us so the registration is handled correctly at transfer.

The California Air Resources Board’s drayage, high priority and federal fleet requirements under Advanced Clean Fleets are listed as repealed, and its Advanced Clean Trucks Regulation as contested. Have your truck’s engine model year and emissions label photographed, since those details go with any California sale.

Enforcement of the 2036 requirement that all medium- and heavy-duty sales be zero-emission is paused, according to a federal court filing in the Eastern District of California. None of this changes what you bring to a sale: the title, the registration and photos of the truck.

• I keep my tractor at a lot by the Port of Oakland; will you collect it across the bay?The Bureau of Transportation Statistics puts the Port of Oakland 12.1 miles north-east of Millbrae, and we collect from there. Share the yard’s street address and the name of whoever holds the gate key.
• We haul our own goods with a handful of Millbrae-based trucks; could we sell them together?Millbrae has 11 private fleets in FMCSA’s carrier census, and selling several units together works the same as one. Send each VIN, the titles and a name with authority to sign for the business.
• My truck lives in a Millbrae parking garage; what should I tell you about getting it out?Millbrae’s lowest structure in the National Bridge Inventory is a garage connector at 8 ft 5 in, so tell us the clearance on the way out and send a photo of the exit before collection is set.