We buy trucks in Oak Shores

Blue Mountain Minerals works a surface limestone operation 6.32 miles from the gazetteer centroid of this place, in San Luis Obispo County, and MSHA records 12 employees there. The nearest town on the mine record is not this one — it is Paso Robles, out on the highway.

Twelve people is a small crew, and a small crew runs its trucks a long time. What comes up for sale off an operation like this is usually high-hour rather than high-mile: a lot of loading, a lot of idling, a haul road instead of a highway. The hour meter is worth telling us about, because none of that shows on the odometer.

Those roads carry nothing posted. Within ten miles of the quarry the 2025 National Bridge Inventory file for this state records 28 structures, and not one of them is coded posted for load or below legal loads. That is a measured zero rather than an empty field — somebody looked, and there was nothing there.

It is still only a bridge file, and out here the tiers behind it matter more than the count does. Counties maintain 28.3% of the structures in this state against 47.9% held at state level and 19.6% by cities, with 517 more held by the United States Forest Service. So a crossing that stops a loaded truck may not belong to anyone you would think to ring, and on this side of the line the one to ask is San Luis Obispo County.

So whatever you drive, the offer does not change — we buy all of them. Out on this part of the Central Coast that means dump trucks and aggregate haulers off the pits, farm trucks and flatbeds off the ranches, work trucks and service bodies on the lake roads, and pickups everywhere.

San Miguel is north, with Templeton and Atascadero south down the valley in San Luis Obispo County; all three carry pages of their own. This is a long way from a metro, so the realistic answer here is often that we buy it where it stands and arrange the tow — nobody has to be home for a truck to sell.

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. A long way out like this, the usual answer is that we buy it remotely and arrange the tow — but we can also come to you and drive it away, come to you and tow it, or you can drive it to us. Payment is cash or electronic payment.