We buy trucks in Placerville

MSHA records 4 employees at Chili Bar Slate and 10 at the Diamond Quarry, 2.71 miles and 3.29 miles from the centroid of this city. Two small stone operations, both close in, both working ground the gold rush went through first.

Small operations like these run tight equipment lists. The truck is usually doing more than one job, and when it is sold it is often because the work changed rather than because the truck did.

Those two meet the tightest structure in this lane, and it works differently from a normal posting. The binding record near the slate operation carries Mosquito Road in El Dorado County and is rated 9.1 metric tonnes — below the weight of an empty tandem dump.

So it does not cap a load. It excludes a commercial vehicle altogether, empty or not, which is a different instruction to a driver than a number that says how much you may carry. Within ten miles of the slate the 2025 National Bridge Inventory records 68 structures with three restricted, the nearest 3.94 miles out; around the quarry it records 73 with four.

So whatever you drive, the offer does not change — we buy all of them. Foothill stone work puts dump trucks, aggregate haulers and flatbeds on these roads, with day cabs running down to the valley and pickups and work trucks everywhere.

One detail worth knowing if you deal with postings. Two of the four restricted structures near the quarry are maintained by the Bureau of Land Management — the records carrying Melsons Cor and Rocky Bar — and they are the first federal restrictions found near any of the fifteen hundred nodes measured. Neither of them binds, but it means the tier you telephone about a posting here is not always the county.

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. We come to you and drive it away, we come to you and tow it, we buy it remotely and arrange the tow, or you drive it to us. Payment is cash or electronic payment.