We buy trucks in Pala

The quarry above this valley has been worked since 1922, and the county approved the current facility on 5 March 1997 for an estimated 22 million tons of aggregate over twenty years. The state mining register carries it as active under Horizon Hill Materials, with 22 acres disturbed of the 48.26 permitted and the lead agency given as San Diego County. MSHA records 2 employees.

A permit that long is the useful part of that for a seller. It means the haul road and the trucks on it have been the same shape for decades, and a truck that has worked one of those runs is a known quantity: loaded on a grade, empty back down, over and over. What has been replaced on it tells us more than the mileage.

That is worth stating rather than smoothing over, so both are here. The central list types this row a metal mine with the commodity iron ore, and the federal mine code says the same — but the register held by the agency that actually issues the permit carries the primary product as stone. This page does not call it an iron mine.

And the coordinate on the row reads 34.063333 north and -115 west, which places it in Riverside County; the register puts the quarry at 33.341111 north and -117.141667 west, in San Diego County, 132.8 miles from that coordinate and 4.3 miles from here. The central cross-check flagged the row for review rather than passing it, which is the system working. It is only worth explaining because a wrong coordinate is exactly the kind of thing that decides whether anybody thinks to drive out to you.

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 quarry, flatbeds moving plant, farm trucks off the groves, work trucks and service bodies on the trades, and pickups everywhere.

Fallbrook is west and Bonsall below it, with Rainbow north and Valley Center south, all four in San Diego County, and Temecula over the line in Riverside 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. Back up a valley like this 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.