Canyon and Tapo pits
Rock and sand south of Val Verde
The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists Canyon Rock Plant, an industrial-mineral mine, 8.5 miles south of Val Verde, and Tapo Rock & Sand, a sand and gravel operation, 8.8 miles south. A dump truck, transfer or end-dump rig that loads at either site is the kind of vehicle we collect from Val Verde driveways and yards. Have the title, the current registration and a few clear photos of the bed and cab ready before you call.
Moorpark Quarry, a sand and gravel operation 14.3 miles to the south-west, also appears in Mine Safety and Health Administration records. If your truck is parked at a pit or a contractor’s lot rather than at home, give us that address and the name of whoever holds the gate key, and we arrange the collection there instead of asking you to move it.
Owners who ran aggregate loads between these three sites often keep scale tickets and service logs in the cab. Those papers are welcome alongside the photos; they let us ask about your truck rather than about trucks in general.
Tractors staged near Raymer Yard and Gemco Yard
Raymer Yard lies 19.6 miles south-east of Val Verde and Gemco Yard 21.3 miles in the same direction, according to the North American Rail Network kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Day cabs that shuttle freight to and from rail yards like these fit the list of tractors we buy.
If the tractor is still staged near one of those yards, the sale can be done from wherever you are now. Send the VIN, the odometer reading and the exact spot where the tractor stands, and say whether a key and the paperwork are with it or with you.
Van Nuys tank work
Product terminals in Van Nuys
Two petroleum product terminals appear in Energy Information Administration listings south-east of Val Verde: Van Nuys at 19.6 miles and Van Nuys Terminal at 22 miles. Tank trucks and tractors that pull fuel trailers out of terminals of that kind are part of what we purchase.
For a fuel hauler, tell us whether the tank or trailer goes with the tractor or stays behind, and keep whatever terminal inspection reports you hold with the title. A tractor sold without its trailer is a normal sale here; we only need to know which pieces are included before we come out.
Nursery and horse trucks
Nursery, mushroom and horse work in the county
Potted flowering plants lead the list of Los Angeles County’s 766 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, ahead of mushrooms and equine operations, a mix that reaches the hills around Val Verde. Box trucks and refrigerated straight trucks that move nursery stock, and pickups and stake beds that serve horse properties, are vehicles we take from owners around Val Verde.
A farm or ranch truck is often registered to a business name rather than a person. If that is the case with yours, have the person who can sign for that business on hand, along with the title showing the same name, so the paperwork matches at pickup.
A Val Verde truck title, lien and VIN plate
The title is the one document a sale cannot do without. If yours is lost, apply for a duplicate through the state’s title agency before you contact us, and keep the receipt; mention the application when you call so we know where things stand.
If a lender still appears on the title, have the lien release or the lender’s contact details ready. Registration papers, the VIN plate photo and any service records round out the file for a truck kept in Val Verde.
Clean truck rules, as published
The California Air Resources Board’s own release describes amendments to the Advanced Clean Trucks Regulation, and that rule’s status is contested. The Advanced Clean Fleets requirements for drayage, high priority and federal fleets have been repealed, according to the board’s rulemaking file.
Enforcement of the 2036 rule requiring every new medium- and heavy-duty sale to be zero-emission stands paused, per a filing in the Eastern District of California federal court. None of this changes what you need for a sale: the title, the registration and the truck’s location.
The questions we get asked in Val Verde
- My dump truck sits at Canyon Rock Plant or Tapo Rock & Sand. Can you load it from the pit itself?Canyon Rock Plant and Tapo Rock & Sand sit about 8.5 and 8.8 miles south of town on Mine Safety and Health Administration records, and we collect from sites like those. Name the pit, the bay the truck is in, and the person who opens the gate there.
- Somewhere between moves I misplaced my rig’s certificate of title. What should a Val Verde owner do first?Val Verde owners replace a missing truck title through the state’s title agency, not through us. Start that application, keep the receipt, and tell us it is under way when you call.
- Can I sell a tractor that works out of the Van Nuys fuel terminals without its trailer?Van Nuys and Van Nuys Terminal sit about 19.6 and 22 miles south-east of Val Verde in Energy Information Administration listings, and tractors from that work can be sold on their own. Tell us up front which pieces are included.