We buy trucks in Norwalk

There is an Air Force Reserve installation here. The record carries it as active and not a joint base, with the centroid of its polygon 1.25 miles from the middle of town in Los Angeles County — and it calls the place Norwalk 2. The research that read that whole layer put the name third from the bottom for how much it tells you, behind one row called NG Training Site and one called Navy Annex.

So there is no function, no headcount and no traffic figure to work from, and this page is not going to manufacture one. What is solid is where it sits. This is the middle of the basin, and 115 of the central list’s California rows are in this county alone — more than twice what any other county in the state carries.

That many rows in one county means the work around here is not one industry with one duty cycle. It is the harbour down at Long Beach, the rail, the quarries, the bases and the distribution yards, all overlapping on the same freeways — and a truck sold in this city could have spent its life on any of them.

Which is why the questions on the form are about the truck and not about the trade. Hours against miles, what it hauled, what has been replaced: those tell us more than a job description does, and they are the same questions whether it ran containers out of the harbour or gravel off a pit in San Bernardino County, and whether it did all of it inside Los Angeles County or three counties over.

So whatever you drive, the offer does not change — we buy all of them. In this part of the basin that means day cabs and drayage tractors off the harbour runs, box trucks and straight trucks on delivery rounds, flatbeds and dump trucks on groundwork, work trucks and service bodies on the trades, and pickups everywhere.

Santa Fe Springs and Cerritos are next door, with Downey and Bellflower west and West Whittier-Los Nietos north; all five carry pages of their own. 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. In the middle of a basin this size 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.