We buy trucks in Ojai

MSHA records 2 employees at the quarry above this valley, working crushed and broken granite under MRC Rock and Sand, and its coordinates lie 4.05 miles from the Census Gazetteer centroid of this place, in Ventura County. Two people is a pit that runs when there is work on, and on a road like this that mostly means local building and road repair.

An operation that size does not keep a truck spare. When one is finally sold it has usually done everything asked of it for years, and what it hauled and what has been replaced along the way tells us a good deal more than the odometer does.

Those roads carry nothing posted. Within ten miles of the quarry the 2025 National Bridge Inventory file records 69 structures, and not one is coded posted for load or below legal loads. On a valley road hemmed in by hills that is a better result than you would guess, and it is a measured zero rather than a blank field.

It reads that way across the state, too: 1.4% of structures here are coded below legal loads, which is the mildest picture in every state this research has measured. It is still only a bridge file. Sixty-nine structures says nothing about a slide, a one-lane section or a road shut for fire, which on this road are the things that actually stop a truck — and counties maintain 28.3% of the structures in this state, so Ventura County is who would know about the rest.

So whatever you drive, the offer does not change — we buy all of them. Up this valley that means dump trucks and aggregate haulers off the pit, flatbeds moving plant, work trucks and service bodies on the trades and the utility work, box trucks on delivery rounds, and pickups everywhere.

Meiners Oaks and Mira Monte are immediately west, with Oak View down the road and Santa Paula over the hill; all four carry pages of their own and all four sit in Ventura County. 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. Up this 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.