The yard here
It is a passenger facility, and that changes what it tells you
The rail row attached to this city is a Caltrain facility — passenger infrastructure carried inside a freight-yard category. It is the last of California’s thirteen passenger-operator rows in that category, seven belonging to Metrolink and six to Caltrain.
That distinction is the whole point of reading the row rather than counting it. A coach yard or maintenance shop generates a different and much smaller amount of road work than a freight yard does, so a page that treated this one as freight would be describing traffic that is not there.
No facility-level source was found for it either, and the surrounding district’s industry is recorded at county level rather than as yard traffic. Air quality in this state is run by regional management districts — Bay Area, South Coast, San Joaquin Valley, Imperial and San Diego among them — and none of their heavy-duty requirements are extracted into the state rule file. What this district asks of a heavy truck we did not establish, so check it against the district rather than against a page.
What runs here
So the traffic here is the peninsula’s own, not the railroad’s
So whatever you drive, the offer does not change — we buy all of them. What this end of the peninsula actually puts on the road is distribution and service work: box trucks and straight trucks out of the industrial belt, flatbeds and day cabs between yards, dump trucks on the construction side, and pickups and work trucks everywhere.
San Bruno, Daly City and Millbrae all carry pages of their own, and it is the same working traffic across every one of them. A light truck here has usually had stop-start city miles rather than long steady ones, and you know better than we do what that does to one over a few years.
California weight law
The weight table here is not the federal one
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.
Questions we actually get
The four that come up every time
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? There is no clock on any of this. 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.
Sell your truck in South San Francisco
South San Francisco, San Bruno, Brisbane and the rest of the peninsula. Tell us what you have and we will take it from there.
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