A name worth checking
There is a Stockton Yard here, and it has nothing to do with Stockton
One rail row filed against this city is named for Stockton Avenue, a street here, and not for the city of Stockton sixty miles east — where our data carries two other yards under that same word. It is the Caltrain Shops site.
A reader matching a name to a place would conflate them, and so would a script. We are naming it because a page built by pattern-matching on yard names would put Central Valley freight in the south bay.
Those yards are passenger sites, and that changes what they imply
Those rows are not freight yards. Newhall Yard and Tamien Yard are passenger rail facilities, and their specific functions were not determined. Thirteen California rail-yard rows in our data belong to passenger operators, seven to Metrolink and six to Caltrain, all carried inside a freight-yard category.
A coach yard or maintenance shop generates a different and much smaller amount of road work than a freight yard does. So nothing on this page reads local freight activity out of them, which for a city this size means the truck traffic here has to be explained by the city itself rather than by its railroads.
What runs here
And a city this size explains it easily
So whatever you drive, the offer does not change — we buy all of them. What Santa Clara County puts on the road is distribution and service work at scale: box trucks and straight trucks on delivery rounds, flatbeds and day cabs between plants and warehouses, dump trucks and aggregate haulers on the construction side, and pickups and work trucks everywhere.
Silicon Valley is a service economy on wheels as much as anything else, and a light truck bought here has usually had stop-start city miles rather than long steady ones. Milpitas and Santa Clara carry pages of their own if the truck lives closer to one of those.
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. We come to you and drive it away, we come to you and tow it, we buy it remotely and arrange the tow, or you drive it to us. Payment is cash or electronic payment.
Sell your truck in San Jose
San Jose, Santa Clara, Milpitas and the south bay around them. Tell us what you have and we will take it from there.
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