Big Rock Creek gravel to the west
The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists Big Rock Creek Quarry, an industrial-mineral mine, 14 miles west of Piñon Hills, with the Coast Aggregates Big Rock Creek sand and gravel operation at 16.7 miles in the same direction. A dump truck or end-dump tractor that loads at those two sites is likely parked at home on a Piñon Hills lot between shifts, so give us that address rather than the pit’s.
If the truck is still on site at Big Rock Creek, tell us who controls the gate and whether a visitor needs an escort. Photograph the hoist, the dump bed, the cab interior and the VIN plate while the truck is still up at Big Rock Creek.
Kilns along the Mojave toward Victorville
Eastward, Victorville Cement Plant sits 19.7 miles out and ORO GRANDE QUARRY, also a cement plant, 19.8 miles to the north-east, according to Mine Safety and Health Administration records. Pneumatic bulk tractors and mixer trucks that serve those kilns can be collected where they stand, whether that is a plant yard or a driveway back in town.
Protech Minerals, LLC runs a mineral processing plant 20 miles east, again per the Mine Safety and Health Administration. For a tractor that pulled from any of these three plants, have the title in your name and the current registration card together, and keep any service log the plant required with them.
Southern pits below Piñon Hills
South of town the Mine Safety and Health Administration records Cucamonga Creek Mine, an industrial-mineral site, at 20.7 miles and the CAMPUS PLANT sand and gravel operation at 21.4 miles. Owners who run aggregate down to those southern sites and back up the hill can sell without moving the truck; we arrange the pickup around wherever it last parked.
Send the odometer reading with your photos and say which of the southern or western pits the truck mostly served. That one line tells us the body type and axle setup to expect at the collection.
Who is hauling from Piñon Hills
FMCSA’s carrier census counts 62 active carriers based in Piñon Hills, of which 47 run intrastate and 14 run interstate, with 7 private fleets among them. An intrastate tractor here carries California registration only, so have that registration and the title ready; an interstate unit should also have its USDOT number on hand.
General freight is the top cargo class, listed by 28 carriers in the FMCSA census, followed by motor vehicles at 6, then machinery and large objects at 5 and metal sheets, coils and rolls at 5. Car haulers, lowboys and flatbeds are therefore all trucks we would expect to hear about from this town, and each one should come with photos of the trailer coupling and deck as well as the tractor.
On the FMCSA records, 23 drivers work within 100 miles of base and 70 beyond it, and the median truck among 16 reporting carriers logs 41,018 miles a year. A truck that spends most nights away may be easier to collect at its last drop than in Piñon Hills, so tell us where it will be.
Among the carriers registered here, the three biggest run 11, 5 and 3 power units, per FMCSA’s census, and new registrations numbered 3 in 2025 and 1 in 2024. A one-truck owner can sell a single tractor, and an operator with several units can list them all at once so we schedule them together.
For more than one truck, send a short list with each VIN, its body type and where it is parked. Matching titles to VINs before we arrive keeps the paperwork for each unit separate.
Desert jobs, Piñon Hills builders and San Bernardino dairies
County Business Patterns from the Census Bureau records 11 construction establishments, and their dump trucks, flatbeds and service bodies are trucks we collect from job sites as readily as from yards.
San Bernardino County holds 809 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, with milk, cattle and potted flowering plants leading the list. A cattle hauler, milk tanker or refrigerated box truck from a county dairy or nursery can be picked up at the farm gate; tell us the road access and whether the yard is gated.
The questions we get asked in Piñon Hills
- I haul cement to Victorville. Can you pick the truck up at the plant?Victorville Cement Plant is 19.7 miles east per the Mine Safety and Health Administration, and the truck can be collected there or at home, whichever is easier for you to arrange access to.