Sell your semi truck for cash in Palo Cedro the easy and convenient way

Latona Aggregates, an industrial-mineral mine 8 miles south-west of town, is the closest operation the Mine Safety and Health Administration lists near Palo Cedro. A dump truck or end-dump that loads there is usually parked at a home yard or at the pit itself, so tell us which, and whether someone can let us through the gate on collection day.

West of town, the Mine Safety and Health Administration records two sand and gravel operations: Aggregate Products at 9.9 miles and Crystal Creek Aggregates at 12 miles. If your truck has spent its working life on those runs, have the title, the current registration and any service records together before you call, along with photos of the bed, the frame and the cab.

North toward Mountain Gate, SWA @ Mountain Gate Quarry (11.5 miles) and Fawndale Rock & Asphalt (12.2 miles) are both crushed-stone quarries on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list. A truck stored at either site can stay put; send us the address and a contact who knows where it sits on the lot.

Twelve and a half miles north-west of Palo Cedro stands the Redding Plant, a cement works on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s rolls. Bulk tractors and mixers tied to a plant like that often keep a trip log or site sign-in records; if yours does, include them with the photos you send.

Whether your mixer or bulk unit is parked near the plant or back home on a ranch road outside Palo Cedro, give us the exact spot and say whether a tow rig can reach it. That one detail sets up the whole pickup.

Of the 70 active Palo Cedro carriers in FMCSA’s carrier census, 59 keep their trucks on intrastate work and only 9 hold interstate operations. For an intrastate truck, the paperwork on a sale is the title in your name and a current registration card.

Of those 70, the same FMCSA census shows 24 operating as private fleets, hauling their own goods rather than freight for hire. If your truck belongs to a ranch, a contractor or a family business, have whoever is named on the title ready to sign.

Fleets here stay small: the three largest Palo Cedro carriers in FMCSA’s census each run 12 power units, with 10 to 13 drivers apiece. Selling one truck out of a fleet that size works the same as selling the whole lot; list the VINs and where each one is parked.

Twelve carriers report mileage to FMCSA, and their median comes to 10,000 miles per truck a year. Note the odometer reading when you send photos, so the description and the pictures agree.

FMCSA’s census shows 23 Palo Cedro carriers hauling general freight, 11 hauling logs, poles, beams and lumber, 9 hauling livestock and 7 moving machinery and large objects. Log trucks, cattle haulers and lowboy tractors are all trucks we buy, along with the trailers that go with them.

Shasta County had 1,120 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, with cattle, equine and honey at the top of the list. A livestock tractor or stock trailer kept on a ranch outside town can be collected from the ranch; tell us the gate and road access before we arrive.

Palo Cedro carriers had 48 trucks stopped between October 2024 and August 2026, and the middle model year among them was 2017, per FMCSA roadside inspection records. Read the model year straight from the title or registration and give it to us with the VIN.

Just under three in ten of those 48 - 29.17 percent in the FMCSA roadside inspection records - carried a model year ten or more years back. Older or newer, the steps are the same: title, registration, photos of all four sides and the cab, and any inspection reports you kept.

The Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts (LODES) record 883 jobs in Palo Cedro in 2023, 91 of them, or 10.3 percent, in construction. For construction firms, the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns shows 22 establishments covering Palo Cedro. Contractors selling a dump truck, flatbed or water truck can list each unit with its VIN and the job site or yard where it is parked.

New carriers keep registering here: FMCSA’s carrier census shows 5 new Palo Cedro carriers in 2025 and 2 in 2024. If you started hauling recently and are selling a truck you bought for that work, the title still needs to be in your name or come with the signed transfer from the previous owner.

A missing title is replaced through the state’s title agency; begin that request before you contact us rather than partway through the sale. If a lender is still listed on the title, have the lien release in hand as well.

When the title is clean and in your name, the rest is short: the registration card, the keys, and photos showing the VIN plate. Tell us where the truck sits in or around Palo Cedro and we arrange the collection there.

• Do you buy log trucks and cattle haulers here?Eleven Palo Cedro carriers haul logs and lumber and nine haul livestock, according to FMCSA’s carrier census, and both kinds of truck are ones we buy. A Palo Cedro seller starts by sending the VIN, the title and a set of photos of the cab and the deck.