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

The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists the San Rafael Rock Quarry, a crushed-stone operation, about 2.9 miles east of the city. Dump trucks and transfer trailers that haul aggregate from a pit that close are often parked at a yard in town or at the quarry gate itself. If yours is at a site with controlled access, give us the name of the person who can let a driver in.

Construction accounts for 3,644 of the 36,269 jobs located in San Rafael in 2023, according to the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts, which is 10 percent of the local total. San Rafael holds 363 construction establishments in the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns, from contractors to paving outfits. For a dump body, a mixer or a flatbed from that trade, photograph the body, the hoist or drum, the cab and the VIN plate, and have the title in the registered owner’s name ready to sign.

Two rail yards, West Chevron Yard at 6.9 miles and Chevron Yard at 7.7 miles, both east of San Rafael, appear on the North American Rail Network kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. A tractor that shuttled between those yards and Marin may be parked in Richmond today. We collect it where it stands, so tell us the street address there.

Two petroleum product terminals listed by the Energy Information Administration, Richmond CA Terminal at 7.4 miles and Richmond at 8.4 miles, lie south-east of the city. If your rig hauled fuel from either, send the tank trailer’s plate details along with the tractor’s VIN, and say whether you are selling the tractor, the trailer or both.

On the water, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics places the port of Richmond 8.2 miles east, the Point Potrero Marine Terminal roll-on/roll-off berth 9.1 miles south-east and San Francisco’s port 14.4 miles south. Chassis and day cabs that pulled boxes or vehicles off those berths are welcome; list the cab type and axle setup when you first get in touch.

FMCSA’s carrier census shows 452 active carriers based in San Rafael, 441 of them intrastate and only 11 authorised for interstate work, with 148 operating as private fleets. Most trucks here work inside California under state registration. Keep the current registration card with the title so the paperwork matches the truck at collection.

Of those carriers, the FMCSA census records 101 hauling general freight, 39 hauling garbage and refuse, 24 hauling logs, poles, beams and lumber, and 18 moving household goods. A refuse packer, a log truck with its bunks or a moving van with its liftgate each needs photos of the working equipment as well as the cab, since that body is what we look at alongside the chassis.

New registrations listed in the FMCSA carrier census came to 17 in 2024 and 16 in 2025. If your operating authority is recent and you are winding it down, have the USDOT number on hand when you call, along with the title and any lien release from the lender.

Across 268 trucks from San Rafael carriers checked between September 2024 and August 2026, FMCSA roadside inspection records give a median model year of 2018.5, with 27.2 percent ten or more model years old. Whatever the year of yours, the VIN tells us the exact build, so put it in your first message.

Among the 66 carriers here reporting mileage to FMCSA’s carrier census, the median comes to 7,083 miles per truck. That census also counts 1,159 drivers working within 100 miles of base and 692 going further. Write down the odometer reading and the engine hours if the dash shows them; those two numbers, with the VIN, answer most of our first questions.

Fleet sizes in the FMCSA carrier census reach 100 power units with 306 drivers for one San Rafael carrier, 68 units with 75 drivers for another and 51 units with 7 drivers for a third. If you are clearing several units at once, send a list of VINs and where each one is parked so a collection can be planned for each one.

For a company sale, the title has to show the business as owner and be signed by someone authorised to sign for it. Bring a letter of authority if the person at the yard is not that signer, and keep inspection and service records grouped by unit.

The National Bridge Inventory lists 33 bridges in San Rafael with no load-posted spans and one under 14 feet: structure 27 0035R, which carries Highway 101 over the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th street crossings with 13ft 11in of clearance. If your truck is parked on one of those downtown streets, tell us so we route a tall load around that crossing.

USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 255 farms in Marin County, with milk, cattle and equine at the top of its list. If a feed truck, cattle hauler or flatbed is parked on a ranch outside town, we collect it from the property. Give us the gate code or a contact and mention any long gravel road in.

California has repealed the drayage and high-priority fleet requirements of its Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation, and its Advanced Clean Trucks Regulation is listed as contested. Enforcement of the zero-emission sales requirement for medium- and heavy-duty trucks is paused under a federal court order.

None of this changes what you hand over when you sell: the signed title, the current registration and the keys. If you kept emissions or compliance paperwork for the truck, add it to the file.

• My dump truck is parked by the San Rafael Rock Quarry gate; will you pick it up from that yard?The Mine Safety and Health Administration places the quarry about 2.9 miles east of town, and our driver comes to that yard for it. Send the yard address and the name of whoever holds the quarry-side gate key.
• The tractor is parked in Richmond, not in Marin; does it need moving back across the bay first?The Bureau of Transportation Statistics puts the port of Richmond 8.2 miles east of San Rafael, and the tractor can stay in Richmond, since we pick up on that side of the bay as readily as in town.
• What should I send first for a refuse truck?FMCSA’s carrier census lists 39 San Rafael carriers hauling garbage and refuse. Send the VIN, photos of the packer body and cab, and confirm the title is in the name of whoever is selling.