End-dumps and gravel haulers working the Imperial County pits
API Pit, which the Mine Safety and Health Administration records as a sand and gravel operation, lies 6.3 miles north-west of Salton City. A dump truck or end-dump tractor that works that pit is often parked close to it between loads, so give us the pit gate or yard address rather than a home address when you get in touch.
Further out, Frink is a sand and gravel operation 19.6 miles east of town, and PLASTER CITY QUARRY, an industrial-mineral mine, lies 20.4 miles south-west, both on Mine Safety and Health Administration listings. If your truck is staged at either site, tell us who controls access there and whether a visitor needs an escort, and we will arrange the pickup with that person.
Aggregate trucks tend to have a long paper trail of scale tickets and site passes. Keep the title, the current registration and any service records together in the cab, and photograph the body, the frame and the tires so the pictures show the truck as it sits.
A small group of local trucking outfits
Salton City is home base for 14 active trucking carriers in FMCSA’s carrier census. The same FMCSA census shows 11 of them running intrastate, 3 crossing state lines and 2 operating as private fleets. Most of the trucks we would collect here are registered and plated in California, so have the California registration card ready alongside the title.
The three largest fleets in town hold 3, 2 and 1 power units under the same federal carrier census. Owner-operators here should keep the title, the keys and the registration together in one place before calling us.
General freight is the cargo listed by 6 of the local carriers in FMCSA records, ahead of grain, feed and hay at 2, dry bulk commodities at 1 and metal sheets, coils and rolls at 1. Tell us which of those your truck has carried and what trailer it pulled, since a flatbed tractor and a box truck call for different photos.
Hay, cattle and wheat haulers on Imperial County farms
USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 482 farms in Imperial County, with cattle, milk and wheat as the top commodities. Hay trucks, feed haulers and grain trailers on those operations can be collected on the farm itself, even off a field road, as long as you tell us how to reach it.
In the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts for 2023, 304 of the 593 jobs located in Salton City, or 51.3 percent, were in agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting. If the truck is titled to a farm business rather than to you personally, have the person who signs for that business available when we close the sale.
Seasonal farm trucks sometimes sit with registration lapsed between harvests. That does not stop a sale; send us the title and the last registration you have, and say when the truck last worked so we know what to expect when we arrive.
A missing California title and the VIN on hand
For a truck kept in Salton City whose title has gone missing, California’s state title agency issues the replacement, so start that request before you contact us. A truck listed under a lien also needs the lender’s release, so find out early whether the loan is closed on paper.
Before the call, write down the VIN, the make and model, the engine and the odometer reading. For a truck working the pits near town or the county’s farms, add a note on the body or trailer it carries, and send a clear set of photos from all four sides.
Pickup from a Salton City yard, pit gate or ranch
We come to the truck, whether it sits in town, at a pit gate up the road or out at a ranch elsewhere in Imperial County. Give us the exact spot and a contact who can meet the driver or leave the keys.
If you have moved away from Salton City and left the truck behind, you can sell it from wherever you live now. Name someone local who can open the gate or the yard, and the rest of the sale happens by phone and paperwork.
The questions we get asked in Salton City
- My dump truck is parked at API Pit outside Salton City. Does the truck need to come off the pit site before a sale goes ahead?API Pit sits 6.3 miles north-west of town on Mine Safety and Health Administration listings, and we collect from sites like it. Tell us who runs the gate so we can arrange entry with them.
- The truck hauled hay for a cattle operation in Imperial County. Is a hay hauler something you take?Imperial County has 482 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, with cattle the top commodity, and farm trucks like hay and feed haulers are part of what we buy. Send us the title, the VIN and photos of the truck and its bed.
- I lost the title for my truck in Salton City. Which office issues a duplicate for an Imperial County truck?Salton City sits in Imperial County, California, so the duplicate comes from the state’s title agency. Start that request, then contact us with the VIN and we can begin while it is processed.