We buy trucks in Porterville

MSHA records 2 employees at the decomposed granite pit east of town, worked by Porterville Rock and Recycle, and its coordinates lie 6.32 miles from the Census Gazetteer centroid of this place. The list files a second row here as well — Deer Creek Rock, 21 employees, construction sand and gravel — and the two sit 7.11 miles apart by their own coordinates, both in Tulare County.

Those are two different operations and two different trucks. Two people is a pit that runs when there is work on; twenty-one is a crew with a fleet and a schedule. What they have in common is that neither keeps a spare, so a truck that comes off either has usually done everything asked of it for years. What it hauled and what has been replaced tells us more than the odometer does.

Those roads are almost clear. Within ten miles of the pit the 2025 National Bridge Inventory file records 88 structures, none posted for load, and exactly one coded below legal loads — county-maintained, and 9.61 miles away. But that structure carries no operating rating in the file at all, so the restriction is recorded and what it will take is not. This page reports no commercial floor here, because there is not one to report.

That single bridge is worth a second look, because of what surrounds it. Tulare County maintains 361 bridges, the largest county-maintained inventory this research has met in the state, and it posts exactly one — and the one is the unrated one. Two separate quarries in this county read that same structure. So the honest answer to "will my load make it" is that the county is who to ring, and 28.3% of the structures in this state are county-maintained precisely so that question has an address.

So whatever you drive, the offer does not change — we buy all of them. Down this end of the valley that means farm trucks and grain hauls off the groves and the row crops, dump trucks and aggregate haulers off the pits, flatbeds moving plant, work trucks and service bodies on the trades, and pickups everywhere.

Lindsay and Strathmore are north with Exeter beyond them, Terra Bella is south and Springville is up the canyon; all five carry pages of their own and all five sit in Tulare 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 this end of the valley 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.