Sell your semi truck for cash in Taft Heights the easy and convenient way

According to the Mine Safety and Health Administration, TAFT PRODUCTION COMPANY & MINES, an industrial-mineral mine, is 4 miles east of Taft Heights. A dump truck or tractor that has worked that site is often still parked at a yard close to the mine gate, so when you reach us, give the street address or the nearest cross road and say whether a lowboy or a tow rig can get in.

Southward, roughly 5.6 miles from town, the Maricopa Plant is a crushed-stone quarry on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list of mine operations. Aggregate haulers from a quarry like that usually come with end-dump or belly-dump trailers; tell us whether the trailer goes with the tractor or stays behind, and send photos of each unit on its own.

Further out, the San Emidio Plant, a sand and gravel operation, lies 17.7 miles east of Taft Heights on Mine Safety and Health Administration records. If your truck is based out there rather than in town, we collect it where it stands; just share the gate hours and who on site can hand over the keys.

Kern County counts 1,691 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, and milk, cattle and cotton lead the list of what those farms sell. Around Taft Heights that points to milk tankers, livestock haulers, module trucks and flatbeds, all of which we purchase from owners.

A farm truck often lives in a barn lot or at the edge of a field rather than on a paved yard. Before pickup, let us know which gate to use, whether the ground is firm after rain, and whether the truck has a current California registration or has been kept on the ranch with plates expired.

A seller in Taft Heights has 1.1 miles to go to reach 165 Center Street, Taft, 93268, where the State of California Department of Motor Vehicles keeps its Taft field office. California issues and transfers truck titles through DMV field offices, so this is where a seller from the Heights goes if the title has been lost and a duplicate is needed.

When the title is in hand, check that the name printed on it matches the seller’s ID and that any lienholder has signed off. If a bank or lender still shows on the certificate, a lien release from them clears it; bring that along with the registration card and we handle the transfer paperwork with you at collection.

Status on the Advanced Clean Trucks Regulation from the California Air Resources Board: contested, with amendments approved by the board. For an owner in Taft Heights deciding whether to sell a diesel tractor, that rule governs what manufacturers sell new, and it does not stop us from buying the truck you already own.

For the state’s zero-emission sales requirement on medium- and heavy-duty trucks, a federal court record shows enforcement is paused. A separate measure, the Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation - Drayage Fleet Requirements and High Priority and Federal Fleets Requirements, has been repealed by the state air board, so neither drayage nor high-priority fleet rules apply to a sale from the Heights today.

Start with the VIN, the make and model, and the odometer reading; those three answer most of our first questions about a truck from Taft Heights. Add photos of the cab, both sides, the frame rails and any body or trailer that goes with it.

Service records and any inspection reports from mine or quarry work belong in the same folder. A truck that has hauled for the Maricopa quarry or the Taft mine may carry site safety check sheets; they show where it has worked, so send them along with the photos.

• Is the Center Street DMV in Taft the place to replace a lost truck title?The Taft DMV field office at 165 Center Street, 1.1 miles from Taft Heights, is the State of California Department of Motor Vehicles office closest to town, and it handles duplicate titles for trucks.
• Will you collect a truck parked out at a mine or quarry?Mine Safety and Health Administration records put the Taft mine 4 miles east and the Maricopa quarry 5.6 miles south of Taft Heights, and we collect from sites like those; tell us the gate, the hours and who holds the keys.
• Do you buy farm trucks from ranches around here?Milk, cattle and cotton top the sales list for Kern County’s 1,691 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, and tankers, livestock trailers and flatbeds from those operations are trucks we purchase.
• Do California’s clean-truck rules stop me from selling a diesel?California’s Advanced Clean Fleets drayage and high-priority fleet requirements have been repealed, and enforcement of the state’s zero-emission truck sales requirement is paused, so a diesel truck in Taft Heights can be sold to us.