Hay, produce and general loads from Brawley
FMCSA’s carrier census lists 193 active motor carriers based in Brawley, and 107 of them declare general freight as a cargo they haul. If your tractor or straight truck has been pulling mixed loads out of town, have the title and current registration in your name ready before you call; those two papers show who can sign.
Grain, feed and hay show up on 44 Brawley carrier filings in the federal carrier census, with fresh produce on 36 and machinery or large objects on 18. A hay truck, a reefer that ran produce or a lowboy rig each gets its own photos: send the cab, the body or trailer coupling, and the plate on the door so we can match the unit to its paperwork.
Of those 193 carriers, FMCSA records 121 as intrastate-only and 72 as interstate, and 43 run private fleets that haul their own goods. If your truck was kept inside California on an intrastate authority, say so up front; it tells us which state papers to ask about and none of it stops a sale.
What the 2017 median means for your paperwork
Across 271 Brawley-carrier trucks stopped for roadside checks from September 2024 to August 2026, FMCSA’s inspection records put the middle model year at 2017. Give us the year, make and VIN of your unit first; every other question follows from those three.
About 37 percent of those inspected trucks were ten or more model years old, according to the same FMCSA roadside inspection records. Whatever year yours is, collect any inspection reports and service logs you have kept, since they show the truck’s history in a way photos cannot.
The largest Brawley fleet in FMCSA’s census runs 43 power units with 45 drivers, the next 30 power units and 30 drivers, and the third 22 units with 21 drivers. If you are an owner releasing several trucks from a fleet of that size, send a list of VINs together and we can plan the collections as one job.
Fields and feedlots
Cattle, dairy and wheat ground in Imperial County
Imperial County had 482 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, with cattle, milk and wheat at the top of its list. A truck that has hauled cattle, milk or wheat may well be parked at a ranch, dairy or field yard rather than in town, and that is fine: give us the address and a contact who can open the gate.
Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting account for 728 of the 7,651 jobs in Brawley in the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts for 2023, or 9.5 percent. If your hay or produce truck works seasonally and sits idle between harvests, tell us when it is free to be collected so the pickup fits around your season.
Plant floors, jobsites and wholesale docks
Manufacturing holds 1,209 Brawley jobs, a 15.8 percent share, in the Census Bureau’s 2023 LEHD job counts, with construction at 245 jobs and wholesale trade at 198. Box trucks, flatbeds and dump trucks that served plant, jobsite or wholesale routes are all units we purchase; note the body type and any attached equipment when you write to us.
The Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns counts 19 construction firms with a Brawley establishment. If your dump truck or flatbed is still parked at a contractor’s yard, confirm who controls the lot and when the gate is open.
Transportation and warehousing come to 109 jobs, 1.4 percent of the town’s total, on the same LEHD figures from the Census Bureau. Owner-operators make up much of that small group, so if the truck is registered to you personally rather than a company, the title in your own name is the document that matters.
Pickup locations
Rail yards, terminals and the road south
El Centro Yard lies 11.9 miles south of Brawley and Calexico Yard 21.2 miles south, both listed in the North American Rail Network from the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. A tractor parked near either yard can be collected where it stands; just tell us the gate and who to call on arrival.
The Energy Information Administration places the Imperial petroleum product terminal 10.8 miles south of town, and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics lists the Ventura Transfer Co liquid bulk terminal 12.5 miles south. If your truck pulled tank trailers to those sites, list which terminals it served and attach any site safety paperwork you still hold.
NAF El Centro, 13.3 miles south-west, and Target 101 Shade Tree, 13 miles west, are military installations on the Bureau of Transportation Statistics list. A truck kept on or beside a restricted site needs an escort or a move to an open lot first, so mention the location when you first contact us.
CARB status and recently registered haulers
The California Air Resources Board reports that its Advanced Clean Fleets drayage, high-priority and federal fleet requirements have been repealed, and that the Advanced Clean Trucks Regulation is contested. Selling to us does not depend on either rule, but if you hold any CARB compliance paperwork for the truck, keep it with the title.
Brawley added 8 new carriers in 2024 and then 14 in 2025, going by FMCSA’s carrier census. If you started hauling recently and are now letting a truck go, the registration card and the title showing any lienholder are what we ask to see first, along with the lienholder’s contact details.
The questions we get asked in Brawley
- My hay truck is parked on a farm outside Brawley. Must it be driven into Brawley first?Imperial County’s 482 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture spread trucks across a lot of ground, so we collect from the farm itself. Send the address and the name of whoever can let us in.
- My tractor sits near El Centro Yard. Will you collect it beside the rail yard?El Centro Yard is 11.9 miles south of Brawley on the North American Rail Network, and collection from a lot near it is routine for us. Tell us whose lot it is so access is arranged with them.
- What should I have ready before I contact you about my Brawley truck?With 193 active carriers on FMCSA’s census in town, most sellers here hold a title, a registration card and some inspection or service records. Have those, the VIN and a set of photos of the cab, frame and tires, and the rest of the questions follow.