01
Farm Pickup
Every-day collection off the farm bulk tank. Sampled, weighed and sealed by the driver who does it the same way tomorrow.
- Bulk tank
- Official sample
- Sealed load
- Same driver
11314 Wible Rd, Bakersfield/USDOT 3009970/MC 28772
Cold when we load itcold when it lands
Ten insulated tankers running bulk milk out of Bakersfield — farm pickup, plant transfer, cream and condensed. Sampled and sealed by a licensed hauler-sampler, temperature recorded at both ends, and the same driver on your tank tomorrow.
Tanker section — sheet 1 of 1
10
Tankers
Insulated stainless
0
Crashes
None on record since 2017
0%
Out of service
Driver and vehicle alike
9
Years under authority
Continuous since 2017
What rides in the tank
Milk doesn't keep
and it doesn't wait
A dairy fills its tank twice a day whether a truck turns up or not. Everything below is the same job underneath: be there in the window, load it cold, get it to intake clean.
02
Plant Transfer
Raw and processed bulk between plants when intake is backed up, a silo has to move or a line needs feeding.
- Plant to plant
- Silo transfer
- Overflow
- Scheduled runs
03
Cream, Condensed & Whey
Higher-solids loads out of the processing side — heavier per gallon, tighter on temperature, no different on paperwork.
- Cream
- Condensed skim
- Whey
- Buttermilk
04
Flush Season & Surge
When spring production peaks and your regular hauler runs out of tanks, the extra load has to go somewhere the same afternoon.
- Spring flush
- Overflow
- Short notice
- Weekend cover
On the route
Twice a day.
Every day.
Including Sunday.
A dairy does not get a day off and neither does the tank. Missed pickups do not reschedule — they overflow. That is the entire job, and it is why the boring things matter more here than the fast ones.
Sampled
Every pickup
Sealed
Dome & outlets
Logged
Temp at both ends
Chain of custody
Six steps between
your tank and intake
Nothing here is a promise about how hard we try. It is the sequence every load runs through, and every step of it leaves a record you can hold us to.
Grade A — Pasteurized Milk Ordinance
- 01
Farm tank
Your bulk tank has already pulled it down cold. We do not load warm milk and we will tell you if the tank reads high.
38°FIn the tank38°F
In the tank
- 02
Sample & weigh
A licensed hauler-sampler pulls the official sample and records the reading. That sample is what your milk check is built on.
38°FRecorded at pickup38°F
Recorded at pickup
- 03
Load & seal
Dome and outlets sealed tamper-evident, seal numbers written onto the manifest before the truck leaves the yard.
38°FSealed cold38°F
Sealed cold
- 04
In transit
Insulated stainless holds the load on a same-day run. No reefer unit to fail, because there is nothing to fail.
+1°FTypical rise+1°F
Typical rise
- 05
Plant intake
Seals checked against the manifest, temperature taken at the hose, sample handed to the lab. Anything out of spec is your call, not ours.
<45°FPMO limit<45°F
PMO limit
- 06
Wash
CIP wash at an approved station between loads. The wash tag stays with the tank and the tank does not load again without one.
180°FCIP cycle180°F
CIP cycle
Temperatures are the working targets. The PMO limit on delivery is 45°F — we do not run to the limit.
Equipment
Ten tankers. Owned, not brokered.
Insulated stainless, washed between loads, no refrigeration unit anywhere in the fleet — because on a same-day run the tank does that job by itself, and a tank cannot break down.
Tank too big for one truck?
High-volume dairies run a super — a tank truck pulling a tank trailer — so the whole tank clears in one stop instead of two.
Ask what fits your tank
TankCapacityCompartmentsBuildTypical run
- Semi TankerCapacity6,000 galCompartmentsSingleBuildInsulated stainlessFarm routes and plant transfer
- Two-CompartmentCapacity6,000 galCompartments2 × 3,000BuildInsulated stainlessMulti-farm routes, split loads
- Milk SuperCapacity8,500 galCompartmentsTruck + pullBuildInsulated stainlessHigh-volume dairies, plant runs
- Bobtail TankerCapacity3,000 galCompartmentsSingleBuildInsulated stainlessSmall tanks and tight yards
- Cream / CondensedCapacity5,500 galCompartmentsSingleBuildInsulated stainlessHigh-solids processed loads
Capacities are nominal. What actually fits depends on your tank, your road and the weight we can legally leave the yard with.
Grade A & sanitation
The load is only
as clean as the tank
Milk is not freight. It is food, it is graded, and it is somebody's paycheck. A tank that loads without a wash tag, a seal that does not match the manifest, a sample handled wrong — any one of those is a rejected load and a very bad afternoon at the plant.
None of what follows is optional or impressive. It is the floor. We list it because a parked domain cannot show it to you, and because you should be asking every hauler who backs up to your tank.
Every load, every tank
- 01Licensed bulk milk hauler-sampler on every route
- 02Grade A tankers maintained to the Pasteurized Milk Ordinance
- 03CIP wash at approved stations, wash tag retained with the tank
- 04Tamper-evident seals on dome and outlets, numbers on the manifest
- 05Official samples pulled at pickup and handed to the plant lab
- 06Temperature recorded at pickup and again at intake
- 07Milk-contact surfaces inspected on a scheduled cycle
- 08Certificate of insurance sent direct to your office
Getting started
Four steps, no mystery
Switching haulers is the part dairies dread, because the tank still fills during the changeover. It does not have to be dramatic — here is the whole of it.
- Day 0
01
Tell us the tank
Farm or plant, tank size, gallons a day and the window it has to be emptied in.
- Same week
02
We build the route
Either you slot into a run we already make, or we add one. You get told which — the honest answer changes the price.
- On start
03
First pickup
The sampler who will be doing it every day introduces himself and walks your tank with you once.
- Ongoing
04
Every day after
Same driver, same window, sampled and sealed the same way. You should stop thinking about it.
Where we run
A ninety-mile
business
This is not long-haul and it should not be priced like it. Bakersfield sits at the south end of the densest dairy country in the United States — the farms, the plants and the wash stations are all inside a morning's drive of each other, and that is exactly why a milk route works at all.
- SR-99
- Bakersfield to Tulare
- SR-43
- Wasco, Corcoran, Hanford
- SR-137
- Tulare & Corcoran plants
- I-5
- West side dairies
- SR-46
- Lost Hills & Wasco
- SR-58
- Kern & the east side
Southern San JoaquinBase — Bakersfield, CA
Service areaBeyond the radiusRoad miles from the yard on Wible Rd
The record
Nine years, nothing on it
Most of what a hauler tells you cannot be checked. This can. Pull the FMCSA snapshot yourself — it is public, it takes about a minute, and it is the single most useful thing you can do before you let anybody near your tank.
- USDOT number
- 3009970
- MC number
- 28772
- Operating authority
- Active — continuous since 2017
- Legal entity
- Legend Milk Transport Inc
- Reportable crashes
- 0 — none on record
- Driver out-of-service
- 0% — no driver placed OOS
- Vehicle out-of-service
- 0% — national average is ~22%
- Inspections on file
- 4, all clear
- Miles reported
- 454,196 (2024)
- Power units / drivers
- 10 tankers · 9 drivers
- Yard & office
- 11314 Wible Rd, Bakersfield, CA 93313
- Cargo & liability
- Certificate issued on request
Figures from the carrier's FMCSA snapshot. The ~22% figure is the national vehicle out-of-service rate at roadside.
Get on the schedule
Tell us the tank.
We'll tell you the window.
Tank size, gallons a day and where you are is enough to know whether you fit a run we already make or need one of your own. You get told which — the honest answer is what makes the price make sense.
Faster than a form
(951) 453-064611314 Wible Rd · Bakersfield, CA
Dispatch answered from 4:00 AM
nathan@legendmilk.comRoute requestNo obligation