Bar None Auction · Fontana, California
Bar None Auction is a Bar None Auction auction yard in Fontana, California, in Inland Empire & San Diego. Access here: Open to the public. This page is our dealer's-eye guide to the yard — what it is, who can buy there, and how the California dealer license unlocks it.
What this yard is
Bar None Auction is a California public auctioneer founded in 1993 and headquartered in Sacramento. Its own site describes its sales as monthly public auctions: government surplus and fleet vehicles — Bar None handles state fleet-disposal work, including Caltrans and Department of General Services sales — alongside the heavy equipment that fills most of its catalogs. Registration is open to the public; no dealer license is required to bid.
The Fontana yard is the Bar None Auction presence for Inland Empire & San Diego — dealers based anywhere in the region register once with the company and buy at this yard in person, online, or both, depending on the sale.
Who can buy
Open to the public. Any adult can register and bid here — no dealer license required. That openness cuts both ways: you bid against dealers, fleet buyers, and the general public in the same sale, and everything sells as-is. Licensed dealers do buy at public surplus sales, especially for fleet trucks and agency units — but the license earns its keep at the dealer-only wholesale yards that fill most of this directory, where the public never gets through the gate.
Buyer notes
The license connection
Bar None Auction itself needs no license — but it is the exception in this directory, not the rule. The wholesale and salvage yards where dealers do most of their buying are dealer-only, and every path into those starts with the California dealer license: the 6-hour pre-license course from an approved provider, the state's 40-question exam at 70%, a $50,000 surety bond in your exact legal name, and the DMV application packet. Both retail and wholesale license holders buy at wholesale and salvage auctions — the wholesale license exists largely for exactly this kind of buying. Our course carries planned launch pricing of $125 and opens when DMV provider approval issues; the founding list is first in.
Take the free practice test See the pre-license course
Buying here is step two. Step one is the license — see our Riverside dealer license guide for the local path, or browse the full California auction directory.
Fontana questions
Yes. Bar None Auction is open to the public — no dealer license is needed to register and bid. Dealers buy here too, especially for fleet and surplus units, but the license gate that defines most of this directory does not apply at this yard.
None for this yard — public registration is ID-based, not license-based. The dealer license matters for the rest of the wholesale world: most yards in this directory are dealer-only, and the license path is the 6-hour pre-license course, the 40-question state exam (70% to pass), the $50,000 bond, and the DMV packet; our A-to-Z guide walks the whole chain.
Bar None Auction sells online as well as at the yard, so a licensed dealer can bid from anywhere. The yard in Fontana still matters: it is where the vehicles sit, where preview happens, and where winning bidders collect what they bought.
The course opens the moment DMV approval is issued. Founding-list members get first access, the launch prices, and a same-day email as each product becomes available.
Waitlist only — nothing is being sold and no payment is taken yet.