Two cement plants on the road toward Mojave
The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists the Tehachapi Cement plant 3 miles east of town and the Mojave Plant & Quarry 11.2 miles south-east. A bulk tractor or end dump that shuttles between those two kilns may well be parked inside a plant gate when you call, so tell us whose yard it sits in and who can let a driver through.
Past the second plant, the Mine Safety and Health Administration records Mojave Pit, a sand and gravel operation 16.2 miles south-east, and Mojave Rock Mine at 18.4 miles. If your dump truck or transfer rig works those pits on the Mojave side of the pass, send photos of the bed, the hoist and the cab along with the VIN.
A metal mine, a crushed-stone quarry and an asphalt terminal
Soledad Mountain Project, a metal mine 17.6 miles south-east, and Big Iron DG Mine, a crushed-stone quarry 23.3 miles out, both appear in Mine Safety and Health Administration listings. Trucks that serve sites like these often stay on the property between shifts; we collect from the mine lot itself once you name the contact who controls access.
On Energy Information Administration records, the Mojave Asphalt Terminal stands 17.7 miles east of Tehachapi as a petroleum product terminal. If your tractor has pulled asphalt or other product tankers out of that terminal, list the loads it carried and keep any terminal or site inspection sheets with the title so the history travels with the truck.
Mojave Yard and the trucks that meet the trains
Mojave Yard, a rail yard 16.7 miles east, is mapped in the North American Rail Network kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Day cabs that move freight between rail sidings and the cement and stone sites nearby can be picked up at the yard or wherever you park them in town; just give us the address.
Before collection, have the registration, the title and the keys in one place. If the title is in a business name, the person who signs for that business should be reachable on the day the truck leaves Kern County.
Bulk, flatbed and produce haulers based up the pass
FMCSA’s carrier census counts 149 active carriers based in Tehachapi, with 133 authorised for intrastate work and 15 for interstate, and 32 of them run private fleets hauling their own goods. A California-only operator selling a truck here needs the California title and current registration; an interstate operator should add any apportioned plate paperwork it holds.
General freight is the top cargo class, listed by 46 of those carriers in the federal census, followed by machinery and large objects at 11, motor vehicles at 9 and fresh produce at 8. A lowboy tractor, a car hauler or a reefer unit is all something we collect, so tell us the trailer setup the truck pulled when you describe it.
The three biggest fleets registered in town run 36, 13 and 10 power units, per the same FMCSA records, and new registrations added 5 carriers in 2024 and 7 in 2025. Selling a handful of units from one Tehachapi yard means one list of VINs and one pickup address.
Driver range and yearly miles over the pass
Drivers registered to Tehachapi carriers split 66 within 100 miles and 205 beyond it, according to FMCSA’s census. If the truck is out of town when you decide to sell, tell us where it is and we collect it there.
Across 24 carriers that reported mileage, the FMCSA census gives a median of 18,518 miles a year per truck. Have the odometer reading ready with the VIN when you contact us, since those two figures start every conversation about a truck.
Work in town and on Kern County farms
Of the 5,031 Tehachapi jobs in the Census Bureau’s 2023 LEHD job counts, manufacturing holds 186 and construction 63. Flatbeds and service trucks working for those employers often sit at a shop or job site; a photo of where it is parked helps us plan how a driver reaches it.
Kern County has 1,691 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, with milk, cattle and cotton as its top products. A livestock hauler, a milk tanker or a cotton module truck from those farms is one we collect at the ranch; give us gate directions if the truck is off a paved road.
A lost title and the CARB rule statuses
If the title for a Tehachapi truck is lost, California’s title agency issues the duplicate; start that request before you contact us so the paperwork is under way. Keep any lien release with the replacement title.
The California Air Resources Board lists its Advanced Clean Trucks Regulation as contested and its Advanced Clean Fleets drayage and high-priority fleet requirements as repealed, while a federal court filing shows enforcement of the 2036 zero-emission sales requirement paused. Keep whatever compliance reporting you filed for the truck in the folder with its registration.
The questions we get asked in Tehachapi
- My truck is parked at a cement plant near Tehachapi. Will a driver come up to the kiln for it?The Tehachapi Cement plant sits 3 miles east of town on Mine Safety and Health Administration records, and we collect from inside plant yards like that one. Name the plant contact who lets drivers in and the spot inside the yard where it stands.
- I hauled out of Mojave Yard and live elsewhere now. Must I return to Kern County for the sale?Mojave Yard is 16.7 miles east of Tehachapi in the North American Rail Network, and the truck can stay wherever it is parked out there. Give us the address and someone with the keys, and sign from where you live.
- What do I need if I lost the title?California’s title agency issues duplicate titles for Kern County trucks, so request the replacement first and keep the lien release with it. While the duplicate is on its way, the VIN and odometer reading let us begin.