Empty cable reels picked up in Apple Valley

What gets made in Apple Valley

Apple Valley is a town of large residential lots east of the Mojave River, reached from Victorville on Highway 18 or Bear Valley Road. Its industrial land is concentrated in the north, in a business district near the airport along Dale Evans Parkway and Navajo Road, where very large distribution centres have been built in recent years.

Apple Valley Airport, a county general aviation field, sits in the same northern area.

Southern California Edison serves the town. New distribution centres need new feeders, and the utility work to serve them brings large reels.

Winter matters up here more than anywhere else on our map. Apple Valley sits near 3,000 feet, nights can freeze, and wind across the open desert picks up most afternoons. A reel left upright on a bare lot can roll in a strong gust, so we ask customers to chock or lay down anything over 48 inches while it waits, and we plan desert loading for calm mornings when we can.

Distribution centres on the scale of Apple Valley's use as much cable as those in Ontario or Moreno Valley, and fit-outs and maintenance produce 36 to 48 inch reels in batches. Contractors in town, building homes on big desert lots, add building-wire reels. Because Apple Valley is across the river from the 15, its stops are grouped with Victorville's.

Where Apple Valley's empty reels come from

Distribution centres in the north

Fit-outs and maintenance empty 36 to 48 inch nailed reels in batches.

Utility feeders to new sites

SCE work leaves 48 to 60 inch reels.

Home construction

Contractors empty building-wire reels of 30 to 36 inches.

How the High desert over Cajon Pass run reaches Apple Valley

The High Desert run reaches Apple Valley from Victorville across the river on Highway 18 or Bear Valley Road, and takes the northern district via Dale Evans Parkway. Distribution centres have truck courts and docks; residential contractors' yards are often dirt.

Other stops on the High desert over Cajon Pass lane: Hesperia, Victorville, Adelanto, Oro Grande. Reels from Apple Valley can share a deck with any of them.