We buy trucks in Paramount

The Rioco Yard sits 1.07 miles from the middle of town, worked by Union Pacific Railroad Company, in the middle of Los Angeles County. That is close enough that the yard and the town share their streets, which is the ordinary arrangement in this part of the basin and the reason so many trucks here are parked on a residential kerb.

A yard that close means transload work, and transload work means short legs. Day cabs in and out, flatbeds, and the service trucks that keep the place running. Short legs put hours on a truck a great deal faster than they put miles on it, so tell us both figures — on a truck like that they say different things.

Those two fields are it. No facility-level source was found for the Rioco Yard, and what the central list holds for the district around it is county-level industry rather than anything about what goes through the gate. Those are different things and folding one into the other would be manufacturing a number.

Los Angeles County on that row was reverse-geocoded from the row’s own coordinate rather than read from a source field, and the match that put it on this page is a within-place-radius test at 1.07 miles. Both are right here. Both are also only as good as that coordinate, which is worth knowing about any row you ever see quoted.

So whatever you drive, the offer does not change — we buy all of them. In this part of the basin that means day cabs and drayage tractors off the harbour runs, box trucks and straight trucks on delivery rounds, flatbeds and dump trucks on groundwork, work trucks and service bodies on the trades, and pickups everywhere.

Bellflower is east and Lynwood west, with Downey north and Compton across the way, and Long Beach south down the Los Angeles River; all five carry pages of their own and all five sit in Los Angeles County. 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 the middle of a basin this size 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.