Small carriers along the foothill roads
For a foothill town of 6,091 residents, Oakhurst is home to 79 active motor carriers on FMCSA’s carrier census. Most of them are small outfits, so the truck you sell is often the one parked beside the house or the shop rather than in a fleet yard. Give us that address when you get in touch and we will plan the collection around it.
Of those 79 carriers, 66 are registered for intrastate work and 13 for interstate hauling, while 31 run private fleets that move their own goods, according to the same FMCSA carrier census. A private-fleet truck that hauled for a contractor, a ranch or a supply business is one we buy just as readily as a for-hire tractor. Have the title and current California registration in the owner’s name before we arrive.
New registrations picked up in 2025, when FMCSA’s carrier census recorded 7 new carriers in Oakhurst against 2 in 2024. If you started hauling recently and the truck no longer fits the plan, the paperwork is usually close at hand: the title, the registration card and any lease or lien release that goes with it.
Log trucks, flatbeds and general freight
General freight is the most common cargo among local carriers, with 23 listing it, and 11 list logs, poles, beams and lumber, by the count in FMCSA’s carrier census. A log truck with its bunks and stakes, or a lumber flatbed, is welcome; tell us what equipment is mounted on it so we can plan the pickup with the right gear.
Six Oakhurst carriers each declare machinery and large objects and motor vehicles as cargo in FMCSA’s carrier census. Lowboys, equipment tractors and car haulers from those operations fit what we buy. Send photos of the deck, the ramps and the cab together, and note whether the trailer is part of the sale or staying with you.
The Sierra White quarry to the south-west
The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists Sierra White, a dimension-stone quarry, 15.9 miles south-west of Oakhurst. A truck that has hauled cut stone or worked that quarry road can stay where it is parked; we come to it. Tell us whether it sits on quarry property and who can let us through the gate.
Dump trucks and flatbeds tied to stone and construction work are a good fit for us. For the 31 construction establishments that County Business Patterns from the Census Bureau records in the area, a single trade truck is often the whole fleet. Keep any service records you have with the title, since they answer most questions before we ask them.
Construction crews, wholesale routes and Madera County dairies
The Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts put 3,128 jobs in Oakhurst in 2023, with 127 in construction (4.1 percent) and 72 in wholesale trade (2.3 percent). Box trucks and straight trucks from supply and delivery work belong on our list as much as tractors do. Have the registration and both sets of keys ready on the day we collect.
Across Madera County, USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 1,255 farms, led by milk, cattle and corn. Livestock haulers, feed trucks and grain rigs that work around Oakhurst are trucks we buy. If the truck stays on a ranch, give us directions to it and the name of whoever will be there to meet the driver.
Long hauls from a mountain town
Drivers working beyond 100 miles number 789 for Oakhurst carriers, against 142 who stay within that radius, in FMCSA’s carrier census. A long-haul tractor may be away from Oakhurst when you decide to sell; tell us where it will be parked and we can collect it there rather than waiting for it to come home.
Seventeen local carriers report mileage to FMCSA, and their median truck covers 13,667 miles a year by that census. Write down the current odometer reading along with the VIN when you contact us; those two figures start every conversation about a truck.
The largest Oakhurst-based fleet in FMCSA’s carrier census runs 315 power units with 655 drivers, and the next two each run 33 power units. Selling several trucks at once from an operation that size works the same way as selling one: list each VIN and where each unit is parked.
Foothill trucks pulled over and dated by inspectors
FMCSA roadside inspection records cover 64 Oakhurst trucks inspected between September 2024 and August 2026, with a median model year between 2021 and 2022. Recent model years and older ones are both trucks we buy, so tell us the year, make and model up front.
Those same FMCSA roadside inspection records show 10.94 percent of the inspected trucks at ten or more model years old. Whatever the year, bring the inspection reports you have kept along with the title, and if the title is missing, tell us at the start so it can be replaced before the sale closes.
The questions we get asked in Oakhurst
- My log truck sits up near the Sierra White quarry; will your driver come out that far for it?Sierra White sits 15.9 miles south-west of Oakhurst on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list, and we collect from that area. Give us the turnout or lot where it sits and the name of whoever holds the quarry gate key.
- My trucks only ever hauled for my own Oakhurst business; does a private-fleet rig qualify?Private fleets make up 31 of Oakhurst’s 79 carriers in FMCSA’s carrier census, and their trucks are ones we buy. Have the title and registration in the business’s name ready.
- My rig hauls cattle and feed between Madera County ranches; would you buy a livestock hauler?Madera County has 1,255 farms led by milk, cattle and corn, per USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, and livestock and feed trucks from that work are on our list. Send photos of the cab and the body together.