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

USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 3,713 farms in Tulare County and ranks milk, cattle and corn as the county’s top products. If your truck has spent its working life on dairy routes or feed runs, it may be parked at a barn or a calf ranch rather than in town; send us the ranch address and a gate contact so collection can be arranged on site.

Grain, feed and hay is the cargo listed by 159 Tulare carriers in FMCSA’s carrier census, with farm supplies listed by 95 of them. Hay squeeze trucks, bulk feed bodies and flatbeds that carried bales all fit what we purchase. Photograph the body or bed as well as the cab, and note the body maker if the plate is still readable.

Fresh produce appears on the registrations of 104 carriers based here, according to FMCSA’s carrier census. Reefer tractors and refrigerated straight trucks from the packing season are welcome; have the reefer unit’s hour reading and serial number ready alongside the truck’s VIN.

The Bureau of Transportation Statistics places a liquid bulk terminal 11.8 miles north-west of Tulare, the kind of stop a feed tanker or bulk hauler from this area works. If your tanker served that terminal, tell us what product it carried so we know what the tank held before anyone looks at it.

Out to the north-east, the North American Rail Network maintained by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics shows Exeter Yard at 13.3 miles from town. A tractor that shuttled loads between farms and that yard can stay parked wherever it finished its last run; give us the cross streets and a phone number for whoever holds the keys.

The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists Kaweah South, a sand and gravel operation 19.3 miles north-east, and Lemoncove Granite, a crushed-stone quarry 22.5 miles out in the same direction. Dump trucks, transfer rigs and belly-dump tractors from those pits are trucks we buy, and we collect them at the quarry or the yard if that is where they sit.

A further crushed-stone source, the Decomposed Granite Pit (LG), is listed by the Mine Safety and Health Administration 23.5 miles east. Construction work locally employs 722 people in the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts, and County Business Patterns from the Census Bureau records 123 construction establishments; if your dump truck or mixer belongs to one of those outfits, have the company’s registration in hand so the seller on the title matches the paperwork.

FMCSA’s carrier census records 986 active carriers in Tulare, and 835 of them run intrastate only while 147 cross state lines. Most trucks sold here, then, are likely to be registered and parked in California, which keeps the paperwork to one state’s title.

Private fleets number 200 in that same FMCSA census, meaning dairies, mills and contractors that move their own goods. If the truck is titled to your farm or business rather than to you personally, the person signing should be someone authorized to sign for that entity.

Driver counts split almost evenly in the federal carrier census: 1,423 drivers work within 100 miles and 1,425 beyond it. A sleeper that runs out of state may be away when you call us, so tell us when it will next be home in Tulare and we will plan around that.

Fleet sizes in the area reach 76 power units for two carriers and 70 power units with 100 drivers for a third, per FMCSA. Owners selling several units at once can send one list of VINs and locations instead of contacting us truck by truck.

Across 607 trucks inspected between August 2024 and August 2026, FMCSA roadside inspection records show a median model year of 2018, and 35 percent of those trucks were ten or more years old. Put your truck’s VIN at the top of the message, since the build year and engine come off it.

Among 210 local carriers that report mileage, the median is 40,000 miles per truck a year in FMCSA’s carrier census. Read the odometer off the dash and include a photo of it with the others you send.

New registrations keep coming: FMCSA’s carrier census shows 64 carriers starting up here in 2025 and 55 in 2024. If you bought a truck to start out and are now selling it, the bill of sale from your purchase and the current registration are the two documents to find first.

Tulare’s 18 bridges, as the Federal Highway Administration’s National Bridge Inventory records them, include no load-posted spans and no clearance under 14 feet. The pickup spot can be wherever the truck already sits in town; just give us the street address.

The California Air Resources Board has repealed its Advanced Clean Fleets requirements for drayage, high-priority and federal fleets, and a federal court record shows enforcement of the zero-emission truck sales requirement paused. Tulare owners will also find the Air Resources Board’s Advanced Clean Trucks Regulation under challenge. Selling a truck here does not hinge on any of these, and we purchase diesel tractors and straight trucks registered in Tulare County.

Of 18,499 jobs counted in Tulare by the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts for 2023, manufacturing accounts for 2,478 and agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting for 1,657. Food plants and farms both send trucks out every day, and either kind can be sold to us with the title and registration in the owner’s name.

Transportation and warehousing holds 673 of those jobs and wholesale trade 515, per LEHD, while County Business Patterns lists 3 warehousing establishments. Trucks that work out of a warehouse or distribution lot can be collected from the dock; tell us the gate hours and who on site can release the truck.

• My feed truck sits at a dairy outside Tulare; does it have to come into town first?Leave the feed truck at the dairy. With 3,713 farms in Tulare County in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, plenty of trucks live on ranches, and we collect from the ranch. Pass along the ranch address and whoever opens the gate for the milk trucks.
• My dump truck works the quarries near Lemoncove. Could the dump truck be collected at the Lemoncove pit itself?The pit works fine as a pickup point. The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists Lemoncove Granite 22.5 miles north-east of Tulare, and we can collect at the pit or at your yard, whichever the truck is parked at.
• The truck is titled to my dairy rather than to me; which of us signs the title?Whoever is authorized to sign for the dairy as a business. Have the title and current registration ready in the business’s name.