We buy trucks in Palmdale

Air Force Plant 42 sits 2.83 miles from the middle of town in Los Angeles County — a government-owned aircraft manufacturing plant in the Antelope Valley, about 60 miles from downtown Los Angeles. It runs to over 6,600 acres, 85% of it government-owned, with roughly four and a quarter million square feet of floor space of which the government owns 45%, and it is operated by Lockheed, Rockwell International, Northrop and others. The airport here became Plant 42 on 8 January 1942.

What is built there, by whom, and how many people work there are not established — the plant is described as classified and this page makes no claim about its production. The shape of the traffic is a different question and it is not classified at all. A factory the government owns and contractors run moves on contractor traffic: flatbeds, box trucks, work trucks and service bodies through a gate on somebody’s schedule.

Those other two are pits. The central list holds two separate mine records at one identical coordinate — 34.576111 north and -117.995833 west — with different operators, different permit numbers and different crews: two people at one, ten at the other under Robertson’s, both recorded as Construction Sand and Gravel.

Whether that is one site under two permits or two sites rounded onto a shared point is not resolved in the data, and it is not resolved here either. Both reached this page by town name rather than by coordinate, so neither carries a distance and neither gets one. What both do carry is the same kind of work on the Antelope Valley floor, and the same kind of truck coming off it eventually.

So whatever you drive, the offer does not change — we buy all of them. Out on this floor that means dump trucks and aggregate haulers off the pits, flatbeds and box trucks on contract and supply work, day cabs on the long runs over the hill, work trucks and service bodies on the trades, and pickups everywhere.

Lancaster is north and Quartz Hill west, with Littlerock east and Acton down the pass, all four in Los Angeles County, and Rosamond over the line in Kern 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. Out on the Antelope Valley floor 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.