A base and its annex
One row here is probably an annex, and probably is as far as we go
A row sits 2.88 miles from this place and about six miles from the Marine Corps Logistics Base at Barstow. On the evidence of the names it is that base’s annex here — and that was not verified, so no claim is made.
It is the third California case of a base and its annex appearing as two rows under two different city labels, after Camp Pendleton and Naval Base Ventura County. A page counting installations would count two where there is one command.
That corridor may be about to change shape, and may not
That places this town about twenty miles east of Barstow on the same corridor, and there is a conditional worth stating carefully. If BNSF’s Barstow International Gateway proceeds, the freight geography of both towns changes.
That is a statement about a project, not a prediction about an outcome. No completion date was established, and a truck being sold this month is being sold into the corridor as it runs today. San Bernardino County is bigger than nine US states and this is a long way along it.
What runs here
A corridor town, and not much else claimed
So whatever you drive, the offer does not change — we buy all of them. An interstate and mainline corridor puts day cabs and road tractors on the road, base and construction work puts flatbeds and dump trucks on it, and pickups and work trucks are everywhere.
No facility-level source was found for the rail yard filed here, and whether it serves the Marine Corps Logistics Base annex at all was not determined. Barstow and Victorville carry pages of their own, and the distances across San Bernardino County are why we usually buy remotely and arrange the move.
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. Out here the common one is that we buy it remotely and arrange the tow, so the sale does not wait on anybody driving out. We also come to you and drive it away, come to you and tow it, or you drive it to us. Payment is cash or electronic payment.
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Yermo, Barstow and the desert corridor between them. Most sales out here we buy remotely and arrange the tow, so nothing waits on a drive across the desert.
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