We buy trucks in Redding

The Redding Plant reports 73 employees to MSHA and is carried as a cement operation with CalPortland Company as operator of record. It is worth saying immediately what it is not: this plant sits in Shasta County, northern California, more than five hundred miles from the desert cement belt in the south of the state, and it serves the Sacramento Valley.

Our own data carries that warning explicitly, because the southern findings about mountain passes and desert grades are genuinely interesting and genuinely do not apply here. A page that carried them north would be describing somebody else’s roads.

Those aggregate operations are the plant’s neighbours. MSHA records 7 employees at Fawndale Rock & Asphalt and 8 at the SWA Mountain Gate Quarry — and both sit about eleven and a half miles from the city centroid rather than in the city, at 11.80 and 11.28 miles.

Within ten miles of each, the 2025 National Bridge Inventory records 99 and 103 structures and not one of either set is coded posted for load or below legal loads. Read as an upper bound rather than a promise: a clean circle at ten miles can still have a tighter crossing just outside it.

So whatever you drive, the offer does not change — we buy all of them. Cement and aggregate put dump trucks, mixers and aggregate haulers on these roads; flatbeds serve the plants and the yards; day cabs and road tractors run the interstate south into the Sacramento Valley, and north past Shasta Lake.

This county is forest as well as quarry, so log trucks and timber rigs belong on the list too — though we will not put a figure on them, because the log-hauler exemption Caltrans publishes is not extracted into our state rule file and was not determined. Pickups and work trucks are everywhere, as they are anywhere.

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.