We buy trucks in Miranda

MSHA records 2 employees at the Bear Butte Quarry, working crushed and broken stone under Kernen Construction, and its coordinates lie 1.99 miles from the Census 2024 Gazetteer centroid of this place, in Humboldt County. Two people is a pit that runs when there is work on, and on this river that mostly means road and bridge repair.

An operation that size does not have a spare truck. When one is finally sold it has usually done everything asked of it for a long time, and what it hauled and what has been replaced tells us far more than the odometer does.

Those hauls meet no recorded restriction. Within ten miles the National Bridge Inventory records 49 structures, and not one is coded posted for load on item 41 or below legal loads on item 70. On a river canyon road that is a better result than you might expect, and it is a measured zero rather than a blank.

It is still only a bridge file. Forty-nine structures on this stretch says nothing about slides, one-lane sections or a road closed for weather, which on this river are the things that actually stop a truck. The county tier is the one that posts in this state — counties maintain 28.3% of California’s structures against 47.9% held at state level — so Humboldt County is who would know about the rest of it.

So whatever you drive, the offer does not change — we buy all of them. Down this river in Humboldt County that means log trucks first, then the quarry’s dump trucks and aggregate haulers, flatbeds moving plant, work trucks and service bodies on utility and forest work, and pickups everywhere.

Redway and Garberville are up the road south, with Rio Dell and Scotia north towards the coast; all four carry pages of their own, and the road that links them is the one everything here runs on. 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. Down the river 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.