We buy trucks in San Marcos

The aggregate node the record attaches to this city is Superior - Twin Oaks, a crushed-stone operation run by Superior Ready Mix Concrete L.P. with seven people on the MSHA roll. Its coordinates sit 6.81 miles from the city centroid, and that distance is worth stating plainly: the row is placed by the address on the mine registration rather than by a boundary, so the pin is an address and not a geography.

Within ten miles of it the FHWA National Bridge Inventory 2025 file for California records 210 structures, and exactly one is coded posted for load and one below legal loads. That one is county-maintained and the nearest sits 3.67 miles away, rated 14.9 metric tonnes — about 16.4 US tons. Item 64 records the gross weight of the rating vehicle, so against the 11.0-tonne tare of an empty tandem dump that cap admits roughly 3.9 tonnes of stone.

So whatever you drive, the offer does not change — we buy all of them. Escondido, Vista and Carlsbad carry pages of their own if the truck really lives closer to one of those. Around here the mix is the ordinary north-county one: box trucks and straight trucks on distribution, flatbeds and day cabs between the yards, dump trucks on the aggregate side, and pickups and work trucks everywhere.

That 14.9-tonne figure turns up twice more in the same survey, and it is worth saying why that is a coincidence rather than a finding. Langley Hill Quarry in San Mateo County and Pacific Heights Pit in Butte County return the same commercial floor, on county roads as much as four hundred miles from this one.

Three different roads can carry the same rating without sharing anything, and the only thing that establishes a shared crossing is a matching structure number. The survey publishes genuine shared-structure findings where it has them — two quarries on one town bridge, three registrations on a single county route — and it checks the number first. A repeated figure is not one of those.

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.

That same code book handles what damage does to a title, and California is unusual in how it does it. CVC § 544 defines a total loss salvage vehicle as one that the owner, a leasing company, a financial institution or an insurer considers uneconomical to repair, and which is consequently not repaired. There is no number in the law.

Most California insurers work to internal thresholds of somewhere around 70 to 75 percent of actual cash value. Those are company policies, not statute, and they must not be read as a legal threshold — the same damaged truck can brand in Kentucky, run a formula in Georgia, and be a judgement call here.

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? However it goes, there is no clock on it: 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.