The mine
One person on the record, three miles out on the desert floor
MSHA records a single employee at the Big Iron mine, working crushed and broken granite, and its coordinates lie 2.90 miles from the Census Gazetteer centroid of this place, in Kern County. One person is about as small as a mine record gets, and it means what you would expect: the equipment does everything, and it does it until it stops.
A truck off an operation like that is not a fleet truck. It has been maintained by the person who drove it, usually well and usually with whatever was to hand, and it has a great many hours against not many miles. That is a truck worth describing to us properly, because none of what makes it good or bad shows on the odometer.
Those hauls cross thirty-seven structures and not one is restricted
Those roads carry nothing posted at all. Within ten miles of the mine the 2025 National Bridge Inventory file records 37 structures, and not one of them is coded posted for load or below legal loads. On the desert floor that is less surprising than it would be in a canyon — there is not much to bridge — but it is a measured zero rather than an empty field, and the two are different facts.
The tiers behind it are worth knowing anyway. Counties maintain 28.3% of the structures in this state and cities 19.6%, so a crossing that stops a loaded truck may not belong to whoever you would first think to ring, and out here Kern County is the one holding the county tier. The bridge file also says nothing about wind, heat or a road shut for weather, which on this floor are the things that actually stop a truck.
What runs here
High-desert haulage and base work, and five neighbours with pages
So whatever you drive, the offer does not change — we buy all of them. Out here that means dump trucks and aggregate haulers off the pits, flatbeds moving plant and equipment, day cabs on the long runs over the hill, work trucks and service bodies on contract and utility work, and pickups everywhere.
Mojave is north and California City north-east, both in Kern County with you, with Tehachapi up the pass, Edwards Air Force Base east and Lancaster south over the line in Los Angeles County; all five carry pages of their own. It is the same form whichever one you start on.
California weight law
The weight table here is not the federal one
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.
Questions we actually get
The four that come up every time
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. A long way out like this, the usual answer is that we buy it remotely and arrange the tow — but we can also come to you and drive it away, come to you and tow it, or you can drive it to us. Payment is cash or electronic payment.
Sell your truck in Rosamond
Rosamond, Mojave, California City, Tehachapi, Edwards and Lancaster — the high desert and the road up the pass. Tell us what you have and we will take it from there, wherever it is sitting.
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