Two cement plants
A hundred and thirty-seven at one, a hundred and twenty-six at the other
MSHA records 137 employees at the Oro Grande Quarry, a cement operation with CalPortland as operator of record, and 126 at the Victorville Cement Plant, operated by CEMEX Construction Materials Pacific. Two cement plants inside one town is unusual anywhere.
It puts this place alongside New Braunfels in Texas as a multi-plant cement town, and it is the densest such concentration in the western United States — a desert limestone belt rather than a river or coastal one.
That inbound limestone never touches a road
That is where the usual assumption breaks. The Mojave Northern Railroad is owned by CEMEX USA and hauls limestone to its plant here from quarries north-east of town — so the inbound raw material at that plant generates no highway movement at all.
It is the clearest case in our data that scale does not predict trucking; what predicts trucking is whether a rail option exists. The outbound side is a separate question and was not established for the Oro Grande Quarry or for any other plant in this belt, so we are not going to infer it either way.
What runs here
And the market is on the far side of a pass
So whatever you drive, the offer does not change — we buy all of them. Cement and aggregate put dump trucks, mixers, aggregate haulers and pneumatic tanks on these roads, with flatbeds serving the plants and day cabs running the loads out.
Those runs go over a mountain. The plants in this belt sit between 2,500 and 4,000 ft with the Cajon Pass between them and greater Los Angeles, so sustained grade work is hard on brakes, cooling and driveline in a way flat urban distribution is not. That is a property of the route rather than a claim about anybody’s equipment. Adelanto, Hesperia and Apple Valley carry pages of their own.
California weight law
The weight table here is not the federal one
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.
Questions we actually get
The four that come up every time
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? There is no clock on any of this. 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.
Sell your truck in Victorville
Victorville, Adelanto, Hesperia and the high desert around them. Tell us what you have and we will take it from there.
Sell My Truck