The yard
A yard named for the city next door, eight tenths of a mile away
The Redwood City Yard is 0.8 miles from the middle of this place and worked by Union Pacific Railroad Company, and its coordinate falls inside Redwood City rather than here. So it is named for the neighbour, sits in the neighbour, and is still close enough to be this strip’s yard in every way that matters to a truck. Redwood City has a page of its own.
That closeness is most of the character of this place. It is a strip wedged between cities in San Mateo County, which tends to mean the work has somebody else’s address on it and the trucks are parked here overnight. Trades work, mostly, on short legs.
That yard is the neighbour’s on paper, and this page says so
That distinction is one this project has got wrong before, so it is stated rather than smoothed over. The coordinate sits inside Redwood City. The row is attached here. Both are true, and the yard is 0.8 miles away either way — but a page that quietly claimed it would be claiming a neighbour’s facility, and the neighbour has the better claim and a page to put it on.
Beyond the carrier and the coordinate the record is empty. No facility-level source was found for the Union Pacific yard, and what the central list holds for the district around it is county-level industry for San Mateo County rather than anything about traffic through it. Those are different things.
What runs here
Trades work between two cities, and four neighbours with their own pages
So whatever you drive, the offer does not change — we buy all of them. Along this strip that means work trucks and service bodies on the trades first, then box trucks and straight trucks on delivery rounds, flatbeds and dump trucks off the building work, day cabs on short runs to the yard, and pickups everywhere.
Redwood City is on more than one side of this place, with Atherton and Menlo Park south and San Carlos north; all four carry pages of their own. It is the same form whichever one you start on.
California weight law
The weight table here is not the federal one
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.
Questions we actually get
The four that come up every time
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 bay 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.
Sell your truck in North Fair Oaks
North Fair Oaks, Redwood City, Atherton, Menlo Park and San Carlos — all of them within a few minutes of each other. Tell us what you have and we will take it from there.
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