Santa Ana is a plant town packed into twenty-seven square miles: one job in ten inside the city is in manufacturing, nine in ten of the carriers based here work California only, and the median carrier reports just 18,000 miles a year on each power unit, which makes this a local-haul city. One fleet based here runs more than two thousand power units.
After general freight the cargoes its carriers declare most are garbage, household goods, motor vehicles and containers, so a Santa Ana lot holds a garbage truck, a moving van, a car hauler, a day cab draying boxes up from the ports, and the semi truck with a sleeper that an owner keeps between runs.
East First Street
The DMV field office at 1330 East First Street is the one inside the city 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 city box truck by its body and liftgate. Get those close, then the cab and the engine, and tell us the route it ran.
Seventy-two 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. Santa Ana's own list is clean: 72 bridges inside the city, none posted for load and none below fourteen feet, so a tandem garbage truck here reads the scale and nothing on a sign.
Tell us where the truck is in Santa Ana, by the First Street office, out by the plants or down on the south side, and send photos and the title.