Hauling off the dairies south of Bakersfield
Around Weedpatch, the farms that USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts across Kern County number 1,691, and milk, cattle and cotton head that county’s list. If your truck has hauled milk tanks, livestock trailers or cotton modules off those farms, tell us which kind of trailer it pulled and whether the trailer is part of the sale.
Of the 344 jobs located in Weedpatch in 2023, 116 sat in agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting, a 33.7 percent share in the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts. A farm truck here is often parked at a field edge, a dairy or a shop yard rather than in town, so give us the exact spot and the name of whoever controls the gate.
Seasonal trucks that sit between harvests can be sold from wherever they rest. Send photos of the cab, the frame, the tires and the plate, plus the VIN, and we will ask about anything else once we have seen them.
Two aggregate pits on opposite sides of town
Drive 9.4 miles north-east of Weedpatch and you reach Edison Sand Pit, which the Mine Safety and Health Administration lists as a sand and gravel operation. A dump truck or transfer rig parked at a pit can stay there for collection; tell us whether the pit’s operator wants notice before a visit.
On the other side of town, Solari Sand and Gravel appears in Mine Safety and Health Administration records 15.4 miles to the south-east. If your truck worked both pits, a short note of the routes and loads it carried helps us understand the truck before we ask a single question.
Keep the registration card and any service records from that aggregate work together with the title, so they travel with the truck when we come for it.
Rail and fuel stops
Rail tracks and tank farms up the road
Bakersfield Yard shows up twice in the North American Rail Network, kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, at 10.3 and 11.7 miles north-west of Weedpatch. Day cabs that shuttle freight to and from those rail tracks can be picked up at the yard lot or your own yard, whichever is simpler for you.
Two petroleum product terminals named Bakersfield sit 13.4 and 13.7 miles north-west, according to the Energy Information Administration, and Tricor Refining, a liquid bulk terminal, is 13.5 miles out on the Bureau of Transportation Statistics list. Tankers that served those sites should come with whatever site inspection or safety papers you kept.
If the tractor is still parked inside a terminal fence, tell us the site contact first, so the pickup is arranged with the people who run the gate.
Arvin DMV
A lost title and the Arvin field office
A missing California title is handled by the State of California Department of Motor Vehicles through its DMV field offices. The State of California Department of Motor Vehicles lists the Arvin office at 317 Campus Dr, Arvin, 93203, about 4.6 miles from Weedpatch, as the nearest.
Start the duplicate title there before you contact us if you can, or tell us at the start that the title is missing so we can talk through the paperwork with you. Bring the VIN, your registration and some form of identification when you visit Arvin.
If a lender is still listed on the title, have the lien release in hand as well; without it the State of California Department of Motor Vehicles will not show you as the clear owner.
Inspected fleet age
What inspected trucks near Weedpatch look like
Sixty-six Weedpatch trucks were stopped between 2024-09-03 and 2026-08-14, and FMCSA roadside inspection records put their median model year at 2016. That is a plain description of the fleet here, and we buy across all of those model years.
Just over 56 percent of those 66 trucks were ten or more model years old, per the same FMCSA roadside inspection records. Whatever year yours is, give us the model year, make and engine in your first message, along with the VIN.
Construction work adds to the mix too: County Business Patterns from the Census Bureau records five construction establishments for the area, and their dump and flatbed trucks are ones we collect from job sites.
Repealed, contested and paused rules
The California Air Resources Board lists the Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation - Drayage Fleet Requirements and High Priority and Federal Fleets Requirements as repealed, and the Advanced Clean Trucks Regulation as contested.
A federal court record in the Eastern District of California shows enforcement paused for the zero-emission sales requirements set for 2036. None of those rules has to be settled before you sell a diesel truck from Weedpatch; we take it as it is registered.
The questions we get asked in Weedpatch
- The tractor sits on a dairy yard east of Weedpatch; does it have to come into town first?Kern County’s farm list from USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture starts with milk, so dairy yards are a common pickup point, and we collect from the yard itself. Send the dairy’s address and the name of the person holding the gate key.
- Which DMV office near Weedpatch handles a duplicate title for a lost one?The Arvin DMV field office at 317 Campus Dr, Arvin, 93203, about 4.6 miles away, handles it for the State of California Department of Motor Vehicles. Mention the missing title in your first message to us.
- Our dump truck still sits at Edison Sand Pit; will you pick it up from the pit?Edison Sand Pit sits 9.4 miles north-east of Weedpatch in Mine Safety and Health Administration records, and the truck can be collected on site. Let us know if the operator needs notice.