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

FMCSA’s carrier census lists 379 active carriers based in Tustin, and 131 of them declare general freight as their cargo. If your box truck or tractor ran those local freight lanes, have the title, the current registration and the VIN in hand before you call, and we can start on the truck straight away.

Smaller groups in the same federal carrier census declare household goods (16 carriers), motor vehicles (14) and passengers (12). A moving van, a car hauler or a bus from one of those operations is a truck we will look at, so send photos of the body or the deck as well as the cab and the plate.

New registrations keep arriving: the FMCSA census records 15 carriers that started in Tustin in 2024 and 13 more in 2025. If you set up an authority in one of those years and are now winding it down, keep the USDOT number handy, since it ties the truck to the paperwork we ask about.

Of the Tustin carriers in FMCSA’s census, 332 run intrastate only, 46 run interstate, and 80 are private fleets moving their own goods. A private-fleet truck often sits at a company yard rather than a home driveway, so tell us the yard address and who holds the gate key.

Drivers on Tustin authorities split between short and long work, with 569 working within 100 miles of base and 734 going beyond it, according to the same FMCSA records. A long-haul truck may be parked somewhere other than Tustin when you decide to sell; give us the address where it is now, and we collect it from there.

FMCSA mileage filings from 55 Tustin carriers put the typical truck here at a median of 15,000 miles a year. Note the odometer reading when you photograph the dash, and add the VIN plate in the same set.

Roadside inspection records kept by FMCSA show 259 Tustin-based trucks inspected between August 2024 and August 2026, with a median model year of 2020. Write the model year and engine family in your first message, matching what the title and the registration card say.

In those FMCSA roadside inspection records, 29.3 percent of the Tustin trucks checked were ten or more model years old. Whatever year yours is, keep its inspection reports and service invoices in the cab folder for the handover.

The three biggest fleets in town run 349, 91 and 18 power units, with 546, 85 and 45 drivers respectively, per FMCSA’s census. If you are selling several units from a fleet of any size, list each VIN and where each truck stands so the pickups can be planned together.

The Energy Information Administration places a petroleum product terminal in Orange, 6.3 miles north-west of Tustin, and the Huntington Beach Terminal 11 miles west. A fuel truck based near either one can stay where it is; give us the site address and a contact who can sign us in.

Fullerton Yard sits 12.1 miles north-west, and the NWS Seal Beach Yard 14.6 miles west, on the North American Rail Network kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Day cabs that shuttle loads to those rail yards are on our list; tell us which yard yours worked from.

Two military installations appear within 15 miles in Bureau of Transportation Statistics listings: NG Los Alamitos JFTB at 14.5 miles west and NAVWPNSTA Seal Beach at 14.6 miles. If the truck is kept on or near a base, check the access rules first and tell us who can escort a driver in.

The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists a sand and gravel operation called Plant #5 about 18.6 miles east of Tustin, and the Corona Plant 18.8 miles to the north-east. Dump trucks and end dumps that haul from pits like these are trucks we buy, so tell us the body type and the bed length when you first get in touch.

Construction accounts for 3,705 jobs in Tustin in the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts for 2023, and County Business Patterns shows 176 construction establishments. If your truck came off a contractor’s job site, have the title signed by whoever the registered owner is, whether that is you or the company.

Tustin had 57,163 jobs in 2023 according to the Census Bureau’s LEHD counts, with 3,650 in manufacturing, 2,441 in wholesale trade and 941 in transportation and warehousing. A delivery straight truck from a wholesale or factory account can be collected from the loading dock, as long as someone there knows we are coming.

Across Tustin’s 47 bridges, the National Bridge Inventory shows zero load postings and zero clearances under 14 feet. Tell us the height of the truck and body anyway, along with the street address, so the right trailer is sent for the collection.

The California Air Resources Board lists the drayage, high priority and federal fleet requirements of its Advanced Clean Fleets regulation as repealed, and the Advanced Clean Trucks regulation as contested. If you hold any CARB compliance paperwork for the truck, put it in the folder with the title.

• Can you collect a tractor from the rail yard at Fullerton instead of from my Tustin address?The North American Rail Network places Fullerton Yard 12.1 miles north-west of Tustin, and the tractor can be collected right there. Give us the yard address and who to call at the gate.
• Would you buy a moving van that hauled household goods for a Tustin outfit?FMCSA’s carrier census lists 16 Tustin carriers hauling household goods, and a van from any of them is a truck we buy. Send photos of the box, the cab and the VIN plate with your message.
• Orange County farms keep horses. Do you take a truck that hauled for an equine operation?USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 158 farms in Orange County, with equine listed first among its top products. A truck that hauled feed or horse trailers for one of them is one we will consider; have the title and registration ready.