We buy trucks in Moss Beach

Pillar Point Space Force Station sits on the coast here, and the centroid of its polygon lies 0.99 miles from the middle of town, in San Mateo County. The record carries it as active and not a joint base. What it does, how large it is and how many people work there were not established, and this page is not going to guess at any of the three.

It is filed under an Air Force component code, because the layer that record comes from has no Space Force value in its vocabulary at all — five other rows named for the Space Force sit under the same code, from Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado to the Space Force Annex down in Los Angeles. The name changed and the field did not.

That whole county is thin in this data. San Mateo County carries five rows in the central list altogether: this station, the yard at Redwood City, the port there, the yard at South San Francisco, and one quarry up at Woodside. Against forty-seven rows for San Bernardino County that is almost nothing, and it is a statement about the layer rather than about the place.

So this is a coastal page rather than a freight one, and the honest thing to say about a truck here is what the coast does to it. Salt air and damp are hard on brake lines, frames and anything that was patched once. None of that stops us buying it. It just means the underside is where we look first.

So whatever you drive, the offer does not change — we buy all of them. On this stretch that means pickups and work trucks first, then box trucks and straight trucks on delivery rounds along the coast road, flatbeds and dump trucks off the groundwork and the slide repairs this side of San Mateo County keeps needing, and service bodies on utility work.

Half Moon Bay is just south of the station up on Pillar Point, with Montara north and El Granada and Princeton in between; all four carry pages of their own. It is one road linking them, and 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 on this coast 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.