The tightest crossing
Three miles out there is a bridge that takes a part load
Within ten miles of the Pacific Heights Pit, where MSHA records 5 employees, the 2025 National Bridge Inventory records 130 structures. Three are coded posted for load and three are coded below legal loads, all county maintained, and the nearest is 3.01 miles away.
The lowest operating rating among them is 14.9 metric tonnes, about 16.4 US tons. Because that figure is the gross weight of the rating vehicle, the cap admits roughly 3.9 tonnes of stone over the tare of an empty tandem dump — which is to say a truck crosses it part loaded or not at all.
That same number turns up four hundred miles away, and it is a coincidence
That 14.9 figure is not unique to this county, and the way it repeats is worth understanding. Three nodes in three different counties return exactly the same commercial floor: one in San Diego County binding on a bridge carrying Sycamore Dr, one in San Mateo County binding on Wurr Rd, and this one here.
They are three different county roads as much as four hundred miles apart that happen to carry the same rating. A repeated cap is not a shared bridge, and reading it as one would turn a coincidence into a network.
What runs here
Silica sand, and an odometer that understates the work
So whatever you drive, the offer does not change — we buy all of them. Sierra Silica Resources reports 30 employees to MSHA, working industrial sand with Industrial Silica Products as operator of record. That product moves in end dumps and bulk trailers while damp and in pneumatic tanks once dried.
Short-radius delivery into construction is the pattern, so the liner, the tailgate seal and the hoist pivot are the wear items, abrasion is constant, and brakes, clutch and tyres carry it while the odometer reads low. Dump trucks and aggregate haulers do the rest, with flatbeds serving the plants and pickups everywhere.
One gap named rather than skated over: no facility-level source was found for the rail yard here, and the log-hauler exemption, the agricultural weight provisions and the regional air district requirements are all absent from the state rule file and were not determined.
California weight law
The weight table here is not the federal one
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.
Questions we actually get
The four that come up every time
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. We come to you and drive it away, we come to you and tow it, we buy it remotely and arrange the tow, or you drive it to us. Payment is cash or electronic payment.
Sell your truck in Oroville
Oroville, Chico, Gridley and the foothills around them. Tell us what you have and we will take it from there.
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