Sell your semi truck for cash in San Francisco the easy and convenient way

FMCSA’s carrier census shows 2,364 active motor carriers with a San Francisco address, and 2,102 of them are registered for intrastate work only. If your truck has stayed inside California, have the California registration card and the title in the same folder before you call us.

Of those active carriers, 531 run private fleets hauling their own goods rather than freight for hire, according to the same federal carrier census. A truck from a private fleet often carries a company name on the title, so check whose name is printed there and who is allowed to sign it over.

New registrations have held steady: the federal motor carrier census counts 112 carriers that started in 2024 and 110 in 2025. If you are one of those newer operators and the truck is still financed, have the lender’s name and account number ready so the payoff can be arranged with them.

General freight leads the cargo list, with 724 San Francisco carriers declaring it to FMCSA, and household goods follows with 176. Straight trucks with moving boxes and liftgates fit that second group; photograph the box interior, the liftgate and the door seals along with the cab.

FMCSA records 132 local carriers authorised to carry passengers. Coaches, shuttles and buses are vehicles we buy too, so send the seating count, the VIN and a photo of the plate along with your contact details.

Intermodal containers appear on the cargo declarations of 112 carriers here, per the federal carrier census. If your tractor has pulled chassis between the bay terminals, tell us whether the chassis goes with the sale or stays behind, since that changes what we collect.

Drivers working within 100 miles of base outnumber those going farther by 11,541 to 3,633 on the driver figures carriers report to FMCSA. Most trucks sold here are therefore likely to be parked in the city or close to it, so give us the street address and any gate code or yard hours.

Across the 340 local carriers that report mileage, the median truck covers 15,073 miles a year, according to FMCSA’s carrier census. Read the odometer and the engine hours off the dash and include both when you send photos.

The three biggest fleets registered here run 2,959, 1,235 and 607 power units, by FMCSA’s count. If you are selling several units from a fleet, list each VIN with where it is parked, and we will plan collection unit by unit.

FMCSA roadside inspection records between August 2024 and August 2026 cover 1,089 San Francisco trucks, with a median model year of 2019. Year, make and model are the first three things we ask, so read them off the title rather than from memory.

In those same inspection records, 27.1 percent of the trucks were ten or more model years old. Whatever the year, if you kept inspection reports or service records, scan them and send them with the photos.

San Francisco County has 135 bridges in the National Bridge Inventory, none of them load posted, but 8 have less than 14 feet of clearance. Tell us the truck’s height, especially for a box truck or a tractor with a tall sleeper, so the route to your parking spot is planned before we arrive.

The lowest listed clearance, 9ft 4in, belongs to structure 34 0006 carrying Interstate 80 over San Francisco Bay, per the Federal Highway Administration’s bridge inventory. If the truck is parked near that crossing, mention it so the collection route is planned around the span.

The Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts for 2023 put 25,266 jobs in transportation and warehousing and 22,980 in construction, out of 747,996 in all. Dump trucks, flatbeds and service bodies from building sites fit our list as well as tractors.

County Business Patterns from the Census Bureau lists 1,790 construction establishments in San Francisco County. A contractor’s truck is often titled to the business, so the person signing the title needs authority to sign for that company.

The California Air Resources Board lists its Advanced Clean Fleets drayage and high-priority fleet requirements as repealed, while its 2036 zero-emission sales requirement has enforcement paused under a federal court filing. Keep any CARB reporting you filed for the truck with the title so it travels with the sale.

If the California title is lost, apply to the state’s title agency for a duplicate. Start that request before you contact us, and send a photo of the registration card in the meantime.

• My moving truck is parked in a garage in the city; will you pick it up from inside?With 8 of the county’s 135 bridges under 14 feet in the National Bridge Inventory, tell us the box height and the garage clearance so the pickup is planned for that spot.
• Do you buy passenger coaches registered in San Francisco?FMCSA lists 132 carriers here authorised for passengers, and we buy coaches and shuttles as well as trucks; send the VIN, seating count and title photo.