We buy trucks in Santa Rosa

MSHA records 11 employees at the Blue Rock Quarry and 8 at the Mark West Quarry, and a third Sonoma pit, Canyon Rock, sits inside the same fifteen miles. They look interchangeable on a map and they are not, because the crossings around each one carry different weight.

The payload over the tightest recorded crossing near each of the three is 5.8 tonnes, 12.7 tonnes, and unknown. A truck working out of one of these pits has had a different working life from one working out of the next, and that is a real difference rather than a rounding one.

That unknown is not an oversight. Of the 190 structures the 2025 National Bridge Inventory records within ten miles of the Mark West Quarry, one is coded below legal loads — county-maintained, 4.33 miles out, carrying Greenwood Ave — and it carries no operating rating in the file at all.

So the restriction is recorded and what it will carry is not. We report the count and the distance and no floor, because a floor we made up would be worse than none. Near Blue Rock the file does give a rating: 214 structures, the nearest restricted one 2.83 miles out, and a lowest operating rating of 23.7 tonnes, about 26.1 US tons — which admits roughly 12.7 tonnes of stone over the 11.0-tonne tare of an empty tandem dump.

So whatever you drive, the offer does not change — we buy all of them. Aggregate work puts dump trucks, mixers and aggregate haulers on these roads, flatbeds move the equipment that serves them, and day cabs, box trucks and pickups do everything else.

Sonoma County posts nine of the 322 bridges it maintains, which is a little under 3 percent and the largest county-maintained inventory in this part of the state. Every restriction near all three of those quarries belongs to the county, so the county is the tier worth telephoning about a posting.

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.

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.