We buy trucks in Oakdale

The yard is 0.39 miles from the middle of town and Sierra Northern Railway works it — the freight division of the privately owned Sierra Railroad Company, about 75 miles of track in the north of the state and 30 miles in the south, interchanging with BNSF and Union Pacific. Its Oakdale Division runs from a Union Pacific connection here up to Sonora.

What that means for a truck is transload. A short line that hands off to a Class I moves freight the last few miles by road at one end or the other, so the work around it is flatbeds, dump trucks and day cabs on short legs. The commodity mix and the carload volume were not determined, so that is the shape of the traffic and not its size.

That second row is a pit. Ohe Sand and Gravel works construction sand and gravel with 3 employees on the record, and it reached this page by its town name rather than by its coordinate, so no distance to the middle of town was computed and none is printed. What can be computed is the gap between the two rows: 9.1 miles, straight off the coordinates the list holds for each.

Both sit in Stanislaus County, and both point at the same kind of truck. Three people on a pit and a short line hauling to an interchange are small operations that run their equipment a long time, which tends to mean high hours against modest miles. Tell us both and what it was doing in between.

So whatever you drive, the offer does not change — we buy all of them. Out here in the Central Valley that means farm trucks and grain hauls, dump trucks and aggregate haulers off the pits, flatbeds carrying plant and equipment, day cabs on the runs to the interchange, work trucks and service bodies, and pickups everywhere.

Riverbank and Modesto are west and Waterford is east, all three in Stanislaus County with you, and Escalon and Ripon sit over the line in San Joaquin County; 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. Out in the valley 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.