We buy trucks in Pajaro

The Watsonville Yard sits 0.51 miles from the middle of this place, on this bank and in Monterey County, and it is named for the city over the river in Santa Cruz County. Watsonville has a page of its own. That split is the whole geography of this village in one line: the address is here and most of the work has an address there.

A yard that close puts produce and transload traffic on the roads around it, which in this valley means reefer work in season, flatbeds, day cabs on short runs and farm trucks the rest of the year. Seasonal work is hard on a truck in a particular way — long idle spells and then everything at once — and that is worth telling us about.

That row carries the carrier Saint Paul and Pacific Railroad, and the only other row in this slice with that carrier is at Kettle Falls, in Washington. A Minnesota-named railroad holding one yard on this coast and one in the far north-east of that state has the shape of a reporting-mark collision.

But a modern railroad of that name does exist, and the attribution could not be shown to be wrong. So it is recorded as unverified rather than as an error, which is a different thing and worth keeping different. Nothing about it changes what a truck here is worth doing with; it just means this page will not tell you who runs the yard.

So whatever you drive, the offer does not change — we buy all of them. Around here that means farm trucks and produce haulers first, then day cabs and road tractors on the runs out of the valley, flatbeds and dump trucks off the groundwork, work trucks and service bodies, and pickups everywhere.

Watsonville and Freedom are across the water in Santa Cruz County, with Las Lomas and Castroville south and Salinas down the valley in Monterey 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. In 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.