We buy trucks in South San Jose Hills

There is a rail yard attached to this row, and two things about it are worth stating rather than skating over. The first is where it is: the coordinate falls inside Industry, not inside this place, and Industry carries a page of its own. The row is attached here; the point is over there.

The second is what is known about it, which is very little. No facility-level source was found for the yard, and the surrounding district’s industry is recorded at county level rather than as yard traffic — so it describes the area and not the railroad. California’s agricultural weight provisions and the regional air district’s heavy-duty requirements are both absent from the state rule file and neither was determined here. If somebody tells you what this district requires, check it against the district.

Whatever you drive, the offer does not change — we buy all of them. West Covina, La Puente and Industry carry pages of their own if the truck lives closer to one of those. The mix through this part of the San Gabriel Valley is distribution and construction: box trucks and straight trucks on delivery, flatbeds and day cabs between the warehouses, dump trucks on the building side, and pickups and work trucks everywhere.

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.

That is the same code book that decides what a wreck does to your title, and it asks a question instead of setting a number. CVC § 544 makes a truck a total loss salvage vehicle when the owner, a leasing company, a financial institution or an insurer considers it uneconomical to repair and it is then not repaired.

So the figure people quote at you — 70 to 75 percent of actual cash value — comes from insurer practice and not from the vehicle code. It is worth knowing which of the two you are being told, because one of them is law and the other is a company’s own policy.

That matters more than people expect, because it runs whether or not anyone tells you. California Civil Code § 3068 gives a repairer a lien that depends on possession, and the lien arises when a written statement of charges is handed to the registered owner or fifteen days after the work is finished, whichever comes first. Presenting the bill starts the clock and so does not presenting it.

Then the holder has thirty days from that point to apply to the DMV for authorisation to conduct a lien sale. The statute also caps what the lien can carry — 1,500 dollars for work or services and 1,025 for storage, rising to 1,250 where the application goes in within the thirty days — and it draws no distinction by vehicle weight, so a class-eight truck runs the same clock as a car.

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. California has no numeric total-loss threshold at all — CVC § 544 asks whether repair is economical and leaves the judgement to the owner, the lender or the insurer — so no percentage decides anything here before we have looked.

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.