Bulk Transportation CO gate
Liquid bulk on the north-east side of Taft Mosswood
Bulk Transportation CO, a liquid bulk terminal, lies 0.6 miles north-east of Taft Mosswood, and West Coast Transloading, another liquid bulk site, is 0.8 miles out in the same direction, both on the Bureau of Transportation Statistics list. A tractor that pulls tank trailers between those two gates may well be parked within sight of them when we come for it. Give us the street address of the yard and tell us whether the tractor sits inside a gated lot, so the pickup can be arranged with whoever holds the key.
If your tanker unit spent its days on short shuttles around these terminals, note which sites it served and keep any loading-rack or site-access paperwork with the truck. Photos of the cab, the fifth wheel, the tires and the VIN plate, taken in daylight, let us see the tractor before we ask a single question about it.
Fuel racks up north
STOCKTON and Shell, a short run up the road from Taft Mosswood
The Energy Information Administration places a petroleum product terminal named STOCKTON 2.7 miles north of Taft Mosswood, with the SHELL STOCKTON TERMINAL at 2.9 miles on the same northern line. Fuel tractors and the tank trailers behind them both come off routes like that, and we buy either one, or the pair together.
Before you get in touch, find the title and the current registration card for the tractor, and for the trailer too if it is part of the sale. If the trailer carries a separate plate or title, say so up front; two documents for two units keeps the paperwork straight at collection.
Stockton Yard, Mormon Yard and the docks to the north-west
On the North American Rail Network, kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, STOCKTON YARD lies a single mile north-east of town and MORMON YARD 2.9 miles away in that direction. Day cabs that shuttle loads between a rail siding and nearby warehouses are a common sight along that stretch. If yours is one, send the VIN and the odometer reading first; everything else we ask follows from those two.
Stockton’s port sits 4.7 miles north-west of Taft Mosswood according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Drayage tractors that run boxes off the docks often end up parked near the waterfront rather than at home, so tell us exactly where the truck is standing today. We collect from that spot, so the tractor can stay right where it is.
Taft Mosswood’s paychecks lean on trucking and warehouses
Of the 266 jobs located in Taft Mosswood in 2023, 140 were in transportation and warehousing, a 52.6 percent share, on the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts. For a seller, that means the truck you have may belong to an employer rather than to you, so check whose name is printed on the title before you contact us.
Where the title shows a company, the person who signs it has to be someone authorised to sign for that company. Have that person’s name and phone number ready, along with any lienholder release if the title still lists a lender, and the sale can move through without a second visit.
Milk tankers and cattle
Milk, cattle and corn around the Stockton area
Around Taft Mosswood, San Joaquin County counted 3,439 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, and milk, cattle and corn led its farm products. Milk tankers, livestock haulers and grain trucks from those operations are trucks we buy, whether they come off a dairy or a feedlot.
A farm truck is often titled to the farm itself and may carry a farm plate. Look up how the title reads, find the registration, and photograph the bed or tank as well as the cab, so we can see the body the truck was built around.
South Lincoln Street, for a missing pink slip
California titles are issued by the State of California Department of Motor Vehicles, and its Stockton field office stands at 55 South Lincoln Street, Stockton, 95203, about 2.8 miles from Taft Mosswood. A missing title is replaced through one of those DMV field offices, and the Stockton branch on South Lincoln Street handles that work for owners here.
Start the replacement before you contact us rather than after; ownership moves to us on that paper. Bring identification and the VIN, and if a lender is still listed on the record, ask it for a lien release at the same time.
Taft Mosswood tractors and the Advanced Clean Trucks question
For the Advanced Clean Trucks Regulation, the state’s status today is contested, and that dispute is still open. Taft Mosswood owners selling an older diesel tractor do not need to wait for that question to settle before contacting us.
For Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation - Drayage Fleet Requirements and High Priority and Federal Fleets Requirements, the state has repealed them. Port-area operators near Taft Mosswood who planned around those drayage requirements can sell a tractor to us on the paperwork alone: title, registration and the VIN.
The questions we get asked in Taft Mosswood
- Will you collect a tanker parked at one of the terminals near Taft Mosswood?The two liquid bulk terminals listed by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics sit under a mile north-east of town, and we collect from yards like those. Give us the address and the gate contact and we will plan the pickup there.
- My truck’s California title is missing; which office near Taft Mosswood replaces it?The State of California Department of Motor Vehicles runs a field office at 55 South Lincoln Street in Stockton, about 2.8 miles away, where a replacement title can be requested.
- Do you buy dairy and livestock trucks from farms around here?Milk and cattle head the farm products of San Joaquin County in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, and milk tankers and livestock haulers from those farms are on our list. Send photos of the cab and the body.
- My drayage tractor is near the port. Should I move it to Taft Mosswood before you collect it?Stockton’s port is 4.7 miles north-west of Taft Mosswood on Bureau of Transportation Statistics figures, and we pick up where the tractor stands, so tell us that location and leave it there.