Pits north-west and south-west
Hauling crushed stone near Phoenix Lake
Blue Mountain Minerals, a crushed-stone quarry, is listed by the Mine Safety and Health Administration about 7.4 miles north-west of Phoenix Lake. A dump truck or end-dump trailer that hauls stone out of that pit may well be parked at the quarry yard rather than at your house; tell us which gate it sits behind and who holds the key, and the collection is planned around that spot.
Sierra Rock Products appears in Mine Safety and Health Administration records as a crushed-stone quarry roughly 9.2 miles south-west of town. If your tractor or tandem has run aggregate from there, gather the title, the current California registration and any scale or load tickets you kept, since those tickets show the work the truck has done better than a description alone.
Ohe Sand & Gravel
Gravel trucks parked down toward Ohe
Farther along the same south-west line, the Mine Safety and Health Administration places Ohe Sand & Gravel Inc, a sand and gravel operation, about 24.8 miles from Phoenix Lake. Trucks based at a site that distance out do not need to come up the hill to sell; send us the yard address and we arrange pickup there.
For a gravel hauler, the photos that help most are the bed or box, the hoist, the frame rails, the tires and the cab interior, plus a clear shot of the VIN plate. Send them with the odometer reading and you will get questions about this particular truck instead of general ones.
Builders by the lake
Construction around the lake
The Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts record 243 jobs located in Phoenix Lake in 2023, and 51 of those, about 21 percent, were in construction. Pickups with service bodies, stake beds and small dump trucks are the vehicles that kind of work keeps on the road, and every one of them is a truck we will look at.
Around Phoenix Lake, 104 construction establishments turn up in the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns. If your truck belongs to a small contracting outfit rather than to you personally, have the name on the title match the business selling it, or bring the paperwork that shows who can sign for that business.
Hay, hooves and horses
Stock haulers on Tuolumne cattle and horse ground
USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 326 farms in Tuolumne County, and its top listed categories there are cattle, equine and goats. Stock trucks, gooseneck haulers and flatbeds that move hay are the farm trucks this county keeps busy, and a ranch truck is welcome even if it only moves a few times a season.
A truck stored in a barn or out on pasture can be collected where it stands. Tell us whether the ground there is dirt or paved, whether the lane is gated, and whether a tow rig can turn around near the truck, and we plan the visit with that in mind.
Trucks checked at roadside
Model years in the Phoenix Lake inspection record
Between 23 September 2024 and 26 August 2026, FMCSA roadside inspection records cover 65 trucks tied to this area, with a median model year of 2019. Of those trucks, about 21.5 percent were ten or more model years old by the same FMCSA records.
Whatever year your truck is, the useful items to have ready are the title, the registration card, any service records you kept and the most recent inspection report. If a California title has gone missing, the state’s title agency handles a duplicate, and starting that request early keeps the sale from waiting on paper.
The questions we get asked in Phoenix Lake
- The dump truck sits in the Blue Mountain Minerals yard; will you pick it up there instead of in town?Blue Mountain Minerals is listed by the Mine Safety and Health Administration about 7.4 miles north-west of town, and we collect from the quarry yard directly. Give us the site contact so someone can open the gate on the day.
- Do you buy livestock trucks and stock trailers from ranches in Tuolumne County?Tuolumne County’s 326 farms, counted in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, are led by cattle, equine and goat operations, and the trucks that haul for them are on our list. Send photos and the VIN and tell us where on the property the truck is parked.
- The truck is titled to my contracting company, so who signs the paperwork when it sells?Construction made up 51 of the 243 Phoenix Lake jobs in the Census Bureau’s 2023 LEHD job counts, so plenty of trucks here are titled to a company. Have the title in the business’s name and a person authorised to sign for that business available when the sale is completed.