Foothill granite
Quarries on every side of the foothills
Sierra White, a dimension-stone quarry 6 miles west of Yosemite Lakes, is on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s register. Granite block leaves a site like that on heavy flatbeds and lowboys, so if yours hauled stone from Sierra White, tell us the axle setup and send a photo of the deck along with the cab and the VIN plate.
Thirteen miles south-west sits Austin Quarry, a crushed-stone operation on the federal mine safety agency’s register, and a dump truck or end-dump trailer working its pit can stay parked right there for collection. Give us the gate contact and the hours the yard is open, and we plan the pickup around the site rather than asking you to move the truck.
Further out, the Rockfield Plant sand and gravel operation lies 17.7 miles south and the Academy Black dimension-stone quarry 24.2 miles south-east, both on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list. Owners who ran between these two and the foothill homesites can sell from wherever the truck is sitting; an address and a phone number for whoever holds the keys is enough to start.
Contractors nearby
Building crews around Yosemite Lakes
Of the 359 jobs the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts (LODES) placed in Yosemite Lakes for 2023, construction held 62, a 17.3 percent share. A contractor here who is letting a dump truck, water truck or stake bed go should keep the registration card and any service invoices together with the title before calling us.
Forty-one construction establishments appear in County Business Patterns from the Census Bureau for this area. Many of those outfits keep a single truck at a home lot off the paved roads, so describe the driveway and any gate when you reach out, and we bring equipment that fits the approach.
Dairy, cattle and corn below the hills
Madera County counted 1,255 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, with milk, cattle and corn as its top products. Feed trucks, cattle haulers and grain trailers from that farm country are among the trucks we buy, and a ranch owner can leave one at the barn for us to collect.
Because milk tops the county’s farm list in the USDA count, bulk tankers and dairy feed rigs show up on ranches between the valley floor and the foothills. Photograph the tank or body, the tires and the odometer, and note any farm-plate registration so we know which paperwork travels with the truck.
Clean-truck rules for Madera County owners
California’s Advanced Clean Fleets drayage and high-priority fleet requirements have been repealed, according to the state air board’s rulemaking record. Its Advanced Clean Trucks regulation is listed as contested, and enforcement of the zero-emission sales requirement has been paused under a federal court filing in the Eastern District of California.
None of those rule changes alters what we ask a Yosemite Lakes seller for: the title in your name, the current registration and the VIN. If the engine’s emissions label is still on the truck, a clear photo of it answers most compliance questions before they come up.
Title, lien release and signing authority
A missing California title is replaced through the state’s title agency, and the replacement should be in hand or on its way when we schedule collection in the foothills. If a lender still shows on the title, have the lien release ready as well.
Trucks that worked the Sierra White or Austin Quarry roads often sit in a contractor’s name rather than the driver’s, so check whose name the title carries. When it is a business, the person signing needs authority to sign for it, and a letter saying so saves a second trip up the hill.
The questions we get asked in Yosemite Lakes
- Will you take a feed truck or cattle hauler off a Madera County ranch?Madera County’s 1,255 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture run mostly to milk, cattle and corn, and the feed trucks, livestock haulers and grain rigs that serve them are trucks we purchase from ranch owners.
- Does California’s repeal of the Advanced Clean Fleets drayage rule change anything for my sale?The state air board lists that drayage and high-priority fleet requirement as repealed, and the sale here still runs on the same three things: your title, the registration and the VIN.