San Jose builds things and keeps its trucks close to home. One job in eight inside the city is in a plant, construction is one in sixteen, and nine in ten of the carriers based here work California only, with the median carrier reporting 20,000 miles a year on each power unit. The yards at Newhall, Tamien and Milpitas and the fuel terminals at Milpitas and Alum Rock are the freight map.
After general freight the cargo its carriers declare most is garbage and refuse, then household goods, so a San Jose lot holds a garbage truck, a moving van, a produce reefer, a dump truck from the Lexington quarry at Los Gatos or Stevens Creek at Cupertino, and the semi truck with a sleeper that an owner keeps between runs up the valley.
Two DMV field offices inside the city do title work, 111 West Alma Avenue and Santa Teresa at 180 Martinvale Lane, for a duplicate title or a title transfer. The five-day notice of sale, the lien and the clean-truck rules are covered on the California page.
A refuse truck is judged by its packer, its hydraulics and its body floor; a moving van by its box and liftgate. Get those close, then the cab and the engine, and tell us the route it ran.
Three hundred and seventy-eight bridges, none posted, none low
California holds the federal 80,000 pounds on the interstates and its own axle table on state roads, both on the California page. San Jose's own list is clean: 378 bridges inside the city, none with a load posting and none below fourteen feet, so a quarry dump truck here reads the scale and nothing on a sign.
Tell us where the truck is in San Jose, by the Alma Avenue office, out by the Newhall and Tamien yards or down toward Santa Teresa, and send photos and the title.