South of the shoreline
Crushed stone six miles down the road
Drive 6.3 miles south from the Oak Shores lakefront and you reach the Blue Mountain Minerals PR LLC crushed-stone quarry, a site on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s mine list. A dump truck or end-dump tractor that has hauled rock out of that site can be collected from the yard where it is parked, so there is no need to bring it up to the lake first.
Further along the same southern line, Bianchi Pit, a sand and gravel operation, appears in Mine Safety and Health Administration records 13.2 miles from town. If your truck has split its weeks between the two sites, tell us which one it is parked at now and send photos of the bed, the cab and the VIN plate so we can plan the collection around that spot.
Coastal rock
Whale Rock Quarry and the long haul south
The Mine Safety and Health Administration places Whale Rock Quarry, another crushed-stone producer, 22.4 miles south of Oak Shores. Tractors and aggregate trailers that run between that quarry and job sites around the county are trucks we purchase, whether they are parked at the pit, at a contractor’s lot or at your home.
Builders are few out here: five construction establishments appear for the Oak Shores area in the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns. If your truck has served one of those builders, gather the registration card and any service log the shop kept, and have both ready before you contact us.
Gates east and north-west
Hauling for Camp Roberts and Fort Hunter Liggett from the lake
Camp Roberts is 11.5 miles east of Oak Shores on the Bureau of Transportation Statistics list of military installations. A box truck, flatbed or tractor that has carried supplies through its gates can be sold from wherever it sits off post, and the paperwork we ask for is the same: the title, the registration and a clear photo of the odometer.
Across the lake and up into the hills, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics records Fort Hunter Liggett 20.3 miles north-west of town. Owners who keep a truck near that installation can give us the nearest road address and a contact who can meet us, and we set the visit up from there.
A siding north-east of the lake
Wunpost Yard, a rail yard listed on the North American Rail Network kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, lies 13.8 miles north-east of Oak Shores. A tractor that has shuttled loads to and from that siding is one we can collect where it stands, including at a yard near the tracks.
When you reach out about a truck that has worked the Wunpost siding, include the trailer type it pulled, the VIN and a few photos of the frame and fifth wheel. That lets our first questions be about the truck itself rather than about where it has been.
Cattle, transplants and nursery stock
Oak Shores lies in a county where USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 2,184 farms, and it lists propagative material, cattle and transplants as the leading products of San Luis Obispo County. Livestock haulers, stake-bed trucks that carry nursery flats and farm tractors pulling hay all fit what we take.
A stock truck from the oak hills above the lake usually sits at the ranch, not on a street in Oak Shores. Send us the ranch road address, a note on whether a tow truck can reach the gate, and the name on the title, and we plan the pickup at the place the truck already is.
Park Street duplicates
Replacing a missing pink slip nineteen miles from the lake
Titles here are issued by the State of California Department of Motor Vehicles, and the closest of its DMV field offices to Oak Shores is the Paso Robles office at 841 Park Street, Paso Robles, 93446, about nineteen miles away by the department’s own listing. If your title has gone missing, that Park Street counter is the place to apply for a duplicate before the sale.
Bring the registration, your photo ID and the VIN to Paso Robles, and if a lender still shows on the title, ask the lienholder for a release. Once the title is in your name and clear, the rest of the sale moves on the paperwork you already hold.
Diesel tractors at the lake and the air board’s truck rules
Around Oak Shores, a diesel truck can be sold to us while two California Air Resources Board rules stay unsettled: the Advanced Clean Trucks Regulation is contested, and for the 2036 100 Percent Medium- and Heavy-Duty Zero-Emission Vehicle Sales Requirements, a federal court filing has put enforcement on hold. The title and registration you hand over are the same either way.
The drayage, high priority and federal fleet portions of the Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation have been repealed, according to the board’s rulemaking notice. A tractor kept at the lake that once fell under those fleet requirements is sold with the same title and registration as any other.
The questions we get asked in Oak Shores
- Can you pick up a dump truck sitting at the Blue Mountain Minerals site south of Oak Shores?The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists that quarry 6.3 miles south of Oak Shores, and we collect from quarry yards like it; give us the site contact and the gate hours.
- The title for my Oak Shores truck has gone missing - where does the DMV reissue it?The State of California Department of Motor Vehicles field office at 841 Park Street in Paso Robles, about 19 miles away per the department, handles duplicate titles.
- Do you buy livestock trucks from ranches around the lake?Cattle is one of the top products USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture names for San Luis Obispo County, and livestock haulers from those ranches are trucks we take.
- I keep a flatbed just outside Camp Roberts - is that close enough for you?Camp Roberts sits 11.5 miles east of Oak Shores per the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, and a truck parked off post nearby is one we can collect where it is.