Fifteen carriers on a small valley roster
FMCSA’s carrier census lists 15 active carriers based in Yountville, and 5 of them declare passengers as cargo. If yours is a shuttle bus, a van or a coach that has moved visitors between the town and the valley, tell us the seating count and the VIN when you first get in touch, and send photos of the interior along with the outside.
Four Yountville carriers register general freight and three register farm supplies, according to the same federal census, with a single outfit listing chemicals. A box truck or flatbed that has worked deliveries up and down Napa County can be sold from the driveway or yard where it already parks; give us that address and the name of whoever holds the keys.
Of those 15 operators, FMCSA records 14 as intrastate and only 1 as crossing state lines, while 7 run private fleets hauling their own goods. A truck that has never left California should still have its registration card and title in the cab or the office file, so pull both out before we schedule the pickup.
The biggest Yountville fleet on the federal carrier census runs 4 power units with 7 drivers, and the next runs 2 units with 2 drivers. Owners at that scale often sell one unit at a time, and that works here: name the single truck you want to part with and leave the rest of the operation untouched.
Drivers for carriers registered in town split 7 within a 100-mile radius and 38 beyond it, on FMCSA’s census figures. If your truck is out on a longer run when you decide to sell, tell us where it will be parked next; the collection can happen there rather than back in Yountville.
For an owner-operator with one or two power units, the paperwork usually lives in one folder. Gather the title, the current registration, the most recent inspection report and any service invoices you kept, and photograph each page next to the truck itself before collection is scheduled.
A tractor that has shuttled loads to either yard may be parked near the tracks; tell us the gate it sits behind and who can let a driver in.
Napa Quarry, an industrial-mineral mine listed by the Mine Safety and Health Administration, lies 10.3 miles south-east of town. Dump trucks and end-dump trailers that have served a pit like that are trucks we buy, and photos of the bed, the hoist and the frame give us the clearest picture before collection.
To the west and north-west, MSHA records list Mark West Quarry at 19 miles, Soiland Co., Inc. at 20.7 miles and Roblar Quarry LLC, a sand and gravel operation, at 24.2 miles. If your aggregate truck stays on a quarry lot between jobs, check with the site about access hours and pass those along when you contact us.
Yountville counted 2,650 jobs in 2023 on the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts, with 274 of them, a 10.3 percent share, in manufacturing. Delivery and service trucks that support those employers sit on business lots in town, so if the truck belongs to a company, have the person named on the title ready to sign.
A contractor’s dump truck, flatbed or utility body can be collected from a job site or a shop yard; send the address and a photo of the body equipment along with the cab.
Napa County holds 1,772 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, and cattle, honey and equine rank at the top of its agricultural list. Livestock haulers, stake beds and farm trucks parked out on a ranch can stay where they are; a farm gate and a phone number for whoever opens it are enough for us to plan the visit.
Travis System Annex No 2, a military installation on Bureau of Transportation Statistics records, lies 24.4 miles east of Yountville. If your truck has been stored or worked near the base, let us know whether a pass or escort is needed to reach it.
Some 24.5 miles south, the Energy Information Administration lists SELBYCROCKETT as a petroleum product terminal. A tanker tractor that has run fuel loads from a terminal like that should come with whatever site records or inspection reports you kept, which help us understand the truck’s work history.
A clean California title in your name is the one document every sale needs. If it has gone missing, the state’s title agency issues duplicates, and starting that request before we arrange collection keeps the rest of the sale moving.
Where a lender still appears on the title, have the lien release on hand or the lender’s contact details ready, and tell us at the start. For a truck registered to a Yountville business, confirm who in the company is allowed to sign.
The questions we get asked in Yountville
- Can I sell one truck from a two-truck fleet?Yountville’s second-biggest fleet on FMCSA’s census runs 2 power units, and selling just one unit from a fleet that size is fine; name the truck and we deal with that one only.