We buy trucks in Montclair

The rail yard here carries the town’s own name and sits 1.26 miles from the middle of it, worked by Union Pacific Railroad Company. That is one of forty-seven rows the central list holds for San Bernardino County, which is the second heaviest county in this state’s file, behind Los Angeles County.

What that yard puts on the road is drayage and transload work — day cabs on short container runs, flatbeds, and the trucks that service the yard itself. Those are heavy hours against modest miles, and the hour meter is the part worth telling us about, because an odometer will not show it.

Those two fields are all there is. No facility-level source was found for this Union Pacific yard, and what the central list holds for the district around it is county-level industry rather than anything about traffic through the gate. The two are different things and this page is not going to convert one into the other.

San Bernardino County on that row was reverse-geocoded from the row’s own coordinate rather than read from a source field, and the match that put the row on this page is a within-place-radius test at 1.26 miles. Both are sound here. Both are also only as good as the coordinate, which is worth knowing about any row you see quoted anywhere.

So whatever you drive, the offer does not change — we buy all of them. Around here that means day cabs and drayage tractors off the rail and the warehouses, box trucks and straight trucks on delivery rounds, flatbeds and dump trucks on groundwork, work trucks and service bodies, and pickups everywhere.

Ontario and Upland are next door and Chino is south, all of them still in San Bernardino County, with Pomona and Claremont over the line in Los Angeles County — this is the seam where the Inland Empire runs into the basin. All five carry pages of their own, and 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. On this side of the county 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.