We buy trucks in Pico Rivera

There is a rail yard 1.33 miles from the middle of town, worked by BNSF Railway Company, and the central list files it under this town’s own name. It sits on the flat by the San Gabriel River, which is where almost everything industrial in this stretch of Los Angeles County ended up, for the plain reason that the river bottom was the land nobody built houses on.

What that puts on the road is short-leg work: day cabs in and out of the yard, flatbeds, box trucks on delivery rounds, and the service trucks that keep a yard moving. It is high-hour, low-mile work, and the hour meter is the part worth telling us about because an odometer will not show any of it.

That is the difficulty with a yard on this layer. No facility-level source was found for it, and what the central list holds for the district around it is county-level industry rather than anything about the traffic through it. This page will not convert the one into the other.

Los Angeles County on the row was reverse-geocoded from that same coordinate rather than read from a source field, so it is exactly as good as the coordinate and no better. It is right. The way we know it is still worth saying, because 1.33 miles and a carrier name is the whole of what stands behind the row, and a page that implied more would be implying it about your truck as well.

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

Whittier is north and Montebello west, with Downey across the San Gabriel River and Santa Fe Springs and Commerce either side; 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. Down on the river flat 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.