We buy trucks in Riverside

The Arlington Yard sits 2.93 miles from the middle of town, worked by Union Pacific Railroad Company. For a city carrying a county’s name and thirty-seven industrial rows across that county, one rail row is a thin showing — and it is worth being plain that this is a statement about what the central list holds, not about what runs here.

No facility-level source was found for the yard, and what the list holds for the district around it is county-level industry rather than anything about traffic through the gate. So the page will describe the shape of the work and not put a figure on it. Transload and drayage on short legs is the shape: day cabs in and out, flatbeds, and the service trucks that keep a yard moving.

That one is a pit — Alpha Materials, two people, working common sand. It reached this page by its town name rather than by its coordinate, and its own county field reads San Bernardino County while this city is the seat of Riverside County. The two rows the list files here are 9.92 miles apart by their own coordinates, which is a fair distance for one town.

Neither of those makes the pit imaginary. It makes it somebody else’s address, probably, and this page is not going to describe a local operation on the strength of a match that never resolved a coordinate. A truck that works out of it is still a truck we would buy, and it would very likely be sold from a yard on this side of the line anyway.

So whatever you drive, the offer does not change — we buy all of them. Around here that means day cabs and drayage tractors off the warehouse and rail work, dump trucks and aggregate haulers off the pits and the groundwork, box trucks and straight trucks on delivery rounds, flatbeds, work trucks and service bodies, and pickups everywhere.

Jurupa Valley and Norco are north across the river and Corona is west, with Moreno Valley east, all four in Riverside County, and Colton up over the line in San Bernardino County; all five carry pages of their own. 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. Across the Inland Empire 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.