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

Of the 3,443 jobs located in Taft in 2023, the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts place 920 in mining, quarrying and oil and gas extraction, which is 26.7 percent of the total. If your truck has spent its working life on lease roads or extraction sites around Taft, tell us the kind of work it did and the body it carries, whether that is a vacuum tank, a flatbed or a water truck.

Construction accounts for 76 of those Taft jobs and wholesale trade for 70, again per LEHD. A dump truck or a stake bed that has worked those trades in town can be sold the same way as a tractor; send the VIN, a few photos of the cab and the body, and the address where it is parked.

The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists Taft Production Company & Mines, an industrial-mineral mine, 1.3 miles south-east of town. A truck kept in a yard at a site like that can be collected from where it sits; give us the gate details and a contact who can let our driver in.

At 5.1 miles south, toward Maricopa, the Maricopa Plant is a crushed-stone quarry on MSHA’s list, and the San Emidio Plant, a sand and gravel operation, lies 15 miles east according to the same agency. Haulers that run aggregate between those plants and job sites around Kern County are the kind of equipment we purchase, tractors, end dumps and bottom dumps alike.

If the truck is parked at a plant rather than at your home, say so when you contact us. Tell us whether it sits at Maricopa, San Emidio or a yard in Taft, and who holds the keys there.

FMCSA’s carrier census counts 119 active carriers based in Taft, and 102 of them operate intrastate only, while 17 cross state lines and 24 are private fleets. For a seller here, that usually means the truck is registered in California and stays in the region, so have the California registration card with the title when we come.

General freight is the leading cargo class among those carriers, at 41 of them, with liquids and gases, motor vehicles and fresh produce each listed by 8, again per FMCSA. A tanker tractor, a car hauler or a reefer from one of those operations is as welcome as a dry van tractor.

Drivers listed with Taft carriers split between 233 working within 100 miles and 322 running beyond it, as FMCSA records show. The 28 carriers that report mileage put the median at 22,818 miles per truck, according to the same census, so a log of where yours has been is helpful to send along.

The three biggest fleets based in Taft hold 101, 48 and 28 power units, FMCSA’s census shows, with 80, 33 and 16 drivers. If you are clearing several units from a yard of that size, list each VIN with its location and we will work through them as one collection.

New registrations continue too: FMCSA’s carrier census shows 5 new Taft carriers in 2025 and 3 in 2024. An owner-operator who started recently and is now selling should have the title in hand, or know which lender holds it, before we schedule the pickup.

Roadside officers looked at 74 Taft-based trucks from September 2024 to August 2026, and FMCSA roadside inspection records put their median model year at 2017 with 41.9 percent at ten or more years. Whatever year yours is, send the model year, the engine and the odometer reading in your first message.

Inspection reports from those roadside checks belong with the truck’s paperwork. If you kept copies, include them with your service records; if not, the VIN is enough for us to start.

Around Taft the 11 structures in the National Bridge Inventory carry no load posting and no clearance below 14 feet. Tell us if the truck sits down a private lease road or behind a locked gate, since that matters more for collection here than the public roads do.

Kern County had 1,691 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, with milk, cattle and cotton as the leading products. A livestock hauler, a milk tanker or a cotton module truck from a county farm can be sold to us from the farm itself.

Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting provide 69 jobs in Taft itself, the LEHD job counts show, and County Business Patterns records 13 construction establishments. Farm and contractor owners selling a work truck should have the title signed over only when we arrive, with the registration and any lien release ready.

• Will you collect a truck parked at a mine or quarry near Taft?Taft Production Company & Mines is 1.3 miles from town and the Maricopa Plant 5.1 miles, per the Mine Safety and Health Administration, and we collect from sites like those. Pass along the name of whoever opens the mine or quarry gate for visitors.
• My Taft carrier only runs inside California; what should I have ready?Taft’s intrastate carriers number 102 of 119 on FMCSA’s carrier census, so in-state registration is the usual case here. Have the title and the California registration ready.
• Do you buy oilfield service trucks?Mining, quarrying and oil and gas extraction hold 920 of Taft’s 3,443 jobs on the Census Bureau’s LEHD counts, and trucks from that work are part of what we purchase. Tell us the body type and send photos.