We buy trucks in Mountain Ranch

Mountain Ranch is in Calaveras County, and the census counts 324 people here, at 83 per square mile, with a median age of 58.2 years.

What we know about Mountain Ranch is what the census records and what California law requires; the yards, pits and depots we have researched elsewhere have no entry here. So the question we can actually answer is how a truck gets out, not who else might want it.

That route out is where the state stops being an abstraction. California sets the ceiling before any local sign lowers it.

In California the statutory range weight limit is 34,000 – 80,000 lb depending on axle count and spacing (CVC §§ 35550–35558).

In California the interstate weight limit is 80,000 lb GVW · 20,000 single axle · 34,000 tandem (23 U.S.C. § 127).

In California the two consecutive tandem sets weight limit is 34,000 lb each if the distance between first and last axle of the sets is ≥ 36 ft; neither set over 34,000; the pair not over 68,000 (CVC § 35551).

Those limits decide the route. The title decides whether there is a sale at all.

In California, a wrecked, destroyed or damaged vehicle counts as a total loss salvage vehicle when its owner, leasing company, financial institution or insurer considers it uneconomical to repair and it is consequently not repaired by or for the owner (CVC § 544).

In California the seller's notice of transfer deadline is within five calendar days of the sale or transfer, in which the owner must notify the department (CVC § 5900(a)).

In California the salvage certificate filing deadline is within 10 days of the settlement of the loss, in which the endorsed certificate of ownership and the plates go to the department (CVC § 11515(a)).

Those two rules meet 324 people in Mountain Ranch, Calaveras County, at a household median around $163,120 and a density of 83 per square mile. A truck sitting in a driveway here is a working asset that has stopped working, whatever the size of the place it stopped in.

What we take out of a place like this is sleeper tractors and day cabs, dump trucks and roll-offs, box trucks and flatbeds, pickups and duallys, and the service and utility bodies that outlive the business that bought them.

Do you actually come to Calaveras County? Yes. We come to you and drive it away, we come to you and tow it, we buy it remotely and arrange the tow, or you drive it to us.

Do you come out to a place this size? 324 people at 83 per square mile is a place we reach the same way we reach anywhere else. The truck decides whether we buy it, not the population.

How do you pay? We pay either cash or electronically.