Sell your semi truck for cash in Santa Rosa the easy and convenient way

The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists Mark West Quarry, a crushed-stone operation about 7.9 miles north-east of Santa Rosa. A dump truck or end-dump tractor that hauls from that pit can stay parked at the yard where it works; send us the yard address and the name of whoever holds the gate key.

South of town, the Mine Safety and Health Administration lists a crushed-stone quarry roughly 8.8 miles out and a sand and gravel operation about 10.3 miles to the south-west. If your rig splits its loads between those two pits, tell us which one it sits at on the day you contact us, and photograph the bed, the frame and the door plate with the VIN.

FMCSA’s carrier census counts 1,668 active carriers based in Santa Rosa, and 1,557 of them operate intrastate only, against 109 that cross state lines. Most of the trucks we collect here will therefore be found inside California, at a home yard or a job site, so have the California registration card in the cab when you send photos.

Private fleets, the ones moving their own goods rather than freight for hire, number 438 in that same federal census. A contractor’s dump truck or a plant’s delivery box truck sold out of one of those fleets needs a signature from someone authorized to sign for the company, so name that person when you first reach us.

New registrations keep arriving: the carrier census shows 55 Santa Rosa carriers added in 2025 and 51 in 2024. If you started hauling recently and are selling the first tractor you bought, the bill of sale and the title in your name are the two papers to locate before anything else.

Among cargo types filed with FMCSA, general freight leads at 486 Santa Rosa carriers, followed by 83 hauling machinery and large objects, 78 moving logs, poles, beams and lumber, and 68 carrying garbage and refuse. Log trucks, lowboy tractors, roll-off and rear-loader refuse units and dry vans all fall within what we buy.

A refuse truck usually carries a body built separately from its chassis, so for those two figures in the carrier census we ask for the body maker’s plate as well as the chassis VIN. For a lowboy tractor that has moved machinery, list the trailer separately if it is part of the sale, with its own title or registration.

FMCSA roadside inspection records from 28 August 2024 to 27 August 2026 cover 1,171 inspected trucks from Santa Rosa carriers, with a median model year of 2020. About 21.7 percent of those trucks, per the same inspection records, were ten or more model years old.

Whichever model year your truck is, the paperwork we ask for is the same: title, current registration, and any inspection reports or service records you kept. Put the model year and the engine make in your first message and we can line up the right questions.

The Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts put 73,982 jobs in Santa Rosa in 2023, with 4,488 in construction and 4,395 in manufacturing. Separately, County Business Patterns from the Census Bureau counts 913 construction establishments and 12 warehousing establishments. A flatbed, a water truck or a dump truck retired from a building contractor’s lot is a sale we handle at the contractor’s yard.

Sonoma County holds 3,097 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, with milk, cattle and cut flowers leading its products. A feed truck, cattle hauler or refrigerated box truck kept on a ranch outside Santa Rosa can be collected there; give us directions to the barn or shop where it is parked and say whether the driveway takes a tow rig.

Driver records filed with FMCSA show 2,920 drivers working within 100 miles of base and 2,511 going farther. A truck that runs the longer routes may be away from Santa Rosa when you decide to sell; tell us the city where it will be parked and we will collect it there.

Across the 239 local carriers that report mileage to FMCSA, the median comes to 13,000 miles per truck a year. Read the odometer and photograph the dash with the key on, so the figure you give us matches the one we see.

• My dump truck is parked at a quarry south of Santa Rosa. Do I bring it into town?You leave it where it is. The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists a crushed-stone quarry about 8.8 miles south and a sand and gravel pit about 10.3 miles south-west, and we come to the truck at either site.
• The title for my Santa Rosa dump truck has gone missing. How do I sell it?Request a duplicate from the state’s title agency in California before the sale, since the title has to pass to us; the registration card and VIN are what that office will ask for.
• My company runs one of the larger Santa Rosa fleets. Can we sell several trucks at once?It can be done as a single collection. FMCSA’s carrier census lists local fleets of 426, 228 and 178 power units; send us a list of VINs and the yard where each truck is parked, and we arrange the pickups together.