We buy trucks in Yreka

There is a node on this row and it does not belong here. La Grange Mine is carried as a surface operation working dimension stone, MSHA ID 0404900, operator of record Eagle Rock Inc, with nine people on the roll — and its coordinate reverse-geocodes to Trinity County, roughly sixty miles south. This town is the seat of Siskiyou County.

So the row is reported here with that correction attached rather than repeated as if it were local. It is worth being plain about how it survived: the county string on the row also says Trinity, so the county and the coordinate agree with each other, and the central cross-check compares exactly those two and passes the row. When the CITY is the field that is wrong and the other two agree, that check confirms it. A city-against-county test would catch it and is a pure lookup.

One more thing is recorded rather than resolved. La Grange Mine is a historic Trinity County hydraulic gold mine name sitting on a row typed as dimension stone, and whether the current operation works dimension stone at a historic gold site was not established. Whatever you drive, the offer does not change — we buy all of them. Weed, Mount Shasta and Montague carry pages of their own if the truck lives closer to one of those.

Which leaves this page honestly short of local specifics, and saying so is better than borrowing them. No bridge survey was run for Siskiyou County on this row, because the row’s coordinate is not in it. The employment and operator figures above describe a site in Trinity County and nothing about the haul roads here.

What does apply here applies everywhere in the state, and it is set out below: the weight table under the California Vehicle Code, the title standard with no percentage in it, and the emissions programme that reads a truck’s weight rating rather than where it is plated. The mix around this end of Interstate 5 runs to timber and highway work — log trucks and dump trucks, flatbeds and day cabs on haulage, box trucks on delivery, and pickups and work trucks everywhere.

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.

That same code book handles what damage does to a title, and California is unusual in how it does it. CVC § 544 defines a total loss salvage vehicle as one that the owner, a leasing company, a financial institution or an insurer considers uneconomical to repair, and which is consequently not repaired. There is no number in the law.

Most California insurers work to internal thresholds of somewhere around 70 to 75 percent of actual cash value. Those are company policies, not statute, and they must not be read as a legal threshold — the same damaged truck can brand in Kentucky, run a formula in Georgia, and be a judgement call here.

Beyond the paperwork there is an emissions programme, and it is the one that surprises people. CARB’s Clean Truck Check applies to vehicles rated over 14,000 lb gross — which is every truck in this trade — and it reaches vehicles operating on California public roads even if they are not registered in California. Subject vehicles report, pay an annual compliance fee, and submit passing emissions tests: 2013 and newer diesel engines and 2018 and newer alternative-fuel engines through on-board diagnostics, older engines on a smoke opacity test. From October 2027 the diagnostics-tested vehicles move to four tests a year, and a registration hold at the DMV exists for vehicles that do not comply.

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? However it goes, there is no clock on it: 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.