We buy trucks in Upland

Three aggregate operations are carried at this city, all in San Bernardino County and all working the wash that comes down out of the mountains. Cucamonga Creek Mine is a surface operation working industrial sand, MSHA ID 0405929, operator of record MRC Rock & Sand LLC, and it reports four people — a genuinely small site.

Alongside it Holliday Rock Company runs two much larger ones: the Campus Plant with fifteen people on the roll and the Upland Pit and Mill with 55, both working construction sand and gravel. Nothing about tonnage or truck traffic through any of the three was established, and none is claimed here.

Whatever you drive, the offer does not change — we buy all of them. Ontario, Rancho Cucamonga and Claremont carry pages of their own if the truck lives closer to one of those. The mix at this end of the valley is construction and distribution: dump trucks and mixers on the aggregate side, box trucks and straight trucks through the warehouses, flatbeds and day cabs between them, and pickups and work trucks everywhere.

All three are surface operations, which puts them inside MSHA Part 46 — the training part covering sand, gravel, surface stone, surface clay, surface limestone, colloidal phosphate and shell dredging. It asks for site-specific hazard awareness training for over-the-road delivery drivers before work at each mine site, and each site counts separately: clearance at the Holliday Rock pit is not clearance at Cucamonga Creek.

The respirable crystalline silica rule sets a permissible exposure limit of 50 micrograms per cubic metre and an action level of 25, with the metal and nonmetal compliance date of 8 April 2026 now past. It reaches its sharpest application at an industrial sand operation like the MRC Rock & Sand one, because there the commodity is substantially silica by design rather than a rock that happens to contain some. That is a property of the material — no measured exposure at any of these sites was found and none is claimed.

That is state law rather than anything local, and it is the rule truck sellers misquote most often. CVC sections 35550 to 35558 set a statutory range of 34,000 to 80,000 lb by axle count and spacing, and § 35551(a) is a table rather than the federal Bridge Formula — no formula is declared in the statute at all.

The California table does not exactly match the Federal Bridge Table, including at three and four axles. So a configuration that is legal under one can be over under the other, and “it makes bridge formula” is a claim about which table you mean. If someone has told you your truck makes it, that is worth knowing before you repeat it.

That same code book handles what damage does to a title, and California is unusual in how it does it. CVC § 544 defines a total loss salvage vehicle as one that the owner, a leasing company, a financial institution or an insurer considers uneconomical to repair, and which is consequently not repaired. There is no number in the law.

Most California insurers work to internal thresholds of somewhere around 70 to 75 percent of actual cash value. Those are company policies, not statute, and they must not be read as a legal threshold — the same damaged truck can brand in Kentucky, run a formula in Georgia, and be a judgement call here.

Does it have to run? No. But we buy complete trucks — if the engine, transmission, doors, rear ends, drive shafts, wheels or anything under the hood have been removed, we can’t buy it. A missing bumper is nothing.

Do I need the title? We need a title, unless the truck is old enough that it never had one. If it is lost, that is a replacement through the DMV and we will walk you through it. If there is a lien on it, say so on the form — that is why the question asks whether the title is in hand rather than whether you own the truck, because those are different situations and they go different ways.

What if it has been in a wreck? Tell us what happened and we will look at it as it is. California sets no percentage: CVC § 544 makes it a judgement about whether repair is economical, so nothing is decided by a formula before we have seen the truck.

How does it get collected, and how am I paid? However it goes, there is no clock on it: we come to you and drive it away, we come to you and tow it, we buy it remotely and arrange the tow, or you drive it to us. Payment is cash or electronic payment.