We buy trucks in Roseville

The Davis Yard sits 2.49 miles from the middle of town in Placer County, worked by Union Pacific Railroad Company, and the record calls it the largest classification yard west of the Rockies and the largest rail facility on the west coast. It was rebuilt and reopened in 1999, and approximately 98 percent of all rail traffic in the north of this state moves through it.

That is a genuine hinge rather than a big number for its own sake. A classification yard on that scale pulls drayage, transload and support traffic in from a long way out, so the trucks around it are not just this town’s: day cabs in and out all day, flatbeds, box trucks, and the service and contractor trucks a facility that size runs on. All of it is short-leg work, which is hours rather than miles.

That duplication is worth knowing about if you ever compare records. The same yard appears under this town and under Antelope, 2.10 miles apart under the same carrier and filed to Placer County and Sacramento County respectively — one facility whose track was split at the county line, not two.

It is not a local quirk either. A scan of all 2,459 rail-yard rows for exactly this pattern found 28 pairs within ten miles in the same state, and several of them are among the largest yards in the country: Proviso in Illinois, Elkhart in Indiana, Northtown in Minnesota, Enola in Pennsylvania. Both of this one’s towns carry a page here, and the truck does not care which of them it is parked in.

So whatever you drive, the offer does not change — we buy all of them. Around the yard that means day cabs and drayage tractors first, then box trucks and straight trucks on delivery rounds, flatbeds and dump trucks off the groundwork this end of the valley keeps generating, work trucks and service bodies on the trades, and pickups everywhere.

Rocklin and Loomis are east and Granite Bay south-east, all three in Placer County with you, and Citrus Heights and Antelope sit over the line in Sacramento 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. Around a yard this size 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.