Silica, stone and gravel around Oroville
Sierra Silica Resources, an industrial-mineral mine, lies 1.4 miles south of Oroville, and Pacific Heights Pit, a crushed-stone quarry, is 2.3 miles to the south-west, both on Mine Safety and Health Administration listings. A dump truck or end-dump tractor that has cycled between those two sites is likely parked close to town, so give us the yard address and a gate contact when you get in touch.
North of the city the Mine Safety and Health Administration lists Morris Ravine Mine, a sand and gravel operation 4.9 miles out, and the TRP Table Mountain Plant, a crushed-stone quarry at 7.4 miles. If your aggregate truck still sits at one of those plants, we collect it there; send the VIN, a photo of the title and pictures of the box, the frame and the cab.
Further south, Hallwood Plant is a sand and gravel operation 20.5 miles away according to the Mine Safety and Health Administration. A truck stored down that way does not have to be driven back to Oroville before you sell it, and a photo of the plate and registration card helps along with the rest.
Poles, beams and lowboy loads
Of the 417 active carriers based in Oroville on FMCSA’s carrier census, 62 list logs, poles, beams and lumber as cargo. Log trucks, pole trailers and the tractors that pull them fall squarely within what we purchase, and a seller should have the title and any trailer paperwork together before calling.
That same federal census counts 43 local carriers hauling machinery and large objects, which points to lowboys and heavy-haul tractors. If yours is a lowboy rig, say whether the trailer is part of the sale and whether its title is separate from the tractor’s, so the paperwork lines up from the start.
Freight, farm supply and in-state haulers
General freight is the listed cargo for 117 Oroville carriers, and farm supplies for 23, per FMCSA’s carrier census. Box trucks, day cabs and flatbeds from those operations are welcome; photos of each side, the dash and the data plate tell us most of what we need.
Intrastate work dominates the registrations here: FMCSA records 384 carriers operating only inside California against 33 crossing state lines, along with 140 private fleets. A truck that never left the state should still have its California registration current or the last card on hand when we arrange collection.
Driver radius figures from the federal motor carrier census split almost evenly, with 493 drivers working within 100 miles and 499 beyond it. Among the 86 carriers reporting mileage to FMCSA, the median is 15,000 miles per truck a year, so tell us the odometer reading up front and the questions that follow are shorter.
New registrations continue too: FMCSA shows 16 new carriers in 2025 and 11 in 2024. The three biggest local operations in that census run 78, 73 and 61 power units, and we handle single trucks and multi-unit sales from fleets of that size alike.
A siding in town, fuel toward Chico
Oroville Yard sits 0.7 miles south-east of town on the North American Rail Network kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Trucks that move freight to and from that siding are usually stored near it, and we can pick up from a yard as long as someone can let us in.
Barber Yard, a second rail yard on that national network, lies 20.8 miles north-west, and the Energy Information Administration places the CHICO petroleum product terminal 19.8 miles in the same direction. A tanker or fuel truck working the Chico side can be collected where it is; list the terminals it served alongside the photos you send.
Rice ground and plant jobs around Oroville
Rice heads the list on Butte County’s 1,667 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, ahead of cattle and then corn. Grain trucks, cattle haulers and farm flatbeds parked on a ranch or at a dryer are trucks we collect from the property, so tell us whether the access road suits a tow rig.
Manufacturing accounts for 863 of Oroville’s 11,958 jobs in 2023 on the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts, beside 236 in construction, 118 in wholesale trade and 98 in transportation and warehousing. Contractors and plant owners selling a single work truck need only the title in their name or the business’s, plus a current registration.
The questions we get asked in Oroville
- My end-dump sits at a silica or stone pit just outside Oroville - does it have to come into town first?Pacific Heights Pit and Sierra Silica Resources both sit within 2.3 miles of town on Mine Safety and Health Administration listings, and we collect from sites like those; give us the address and a gate contact.
- Do you buy log trucks from Oroville owners?Sixty-two Oroville carriers on FMCSA’s carrier census list logs, poles, beams and lumber as cargo, and their log trucks and tractors are trucks we purchase; have the title and trailer paperwork ready.
- I run a rice farm in Butte County. Will you come out to the property?Rice leads the crops on the county’s 1,667 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, and we pick up farm trucks where they are kept; tell us the road in and where the truck is parked.
- I want to sell a dozen power units out of my Oroville operation together - is that possible?Oroville’s three largest fleets on FMCSA’s census run 78, 73 and 61 power units, and we handle sales of one truck or many; send a list of VINs to start.