Fresno’s carriers and the loads they haul
FMCSA’s carrier census lists 9,202 active carriers based in Fresno, and 6,320 of them register general freight as a cargo they carry. If your tractor pulled dry vans out of the city, send the VIN, the current registration card and a few photos of the cab and the trailer hookups, and we can start from there.
Fresh produce appears on 3,341 Fresno carrier registrations in FMCSA’s carrier census, with refrigerated food and meat each listed by 3,054. If yours is a reefer unit, tell us whether the reefer itself comes with the tractor or stays with your trailer, and include the reefer unit’s service log if you kept one.
Of those Fresno carriers, FMCSA’s census counts 4,760 as interstate operators, 4,420 as intrastate only and 1,218 as private fleets hauling their own goods. A packing house or ranch that kept a truck for its own loads can sell it to us the same way an owner-operator can; the title holder signs, whoever that is.
What Fresno roadside checks show about model years
Roadside inspection records kept by FMCSA cover 11,373 trucks from Fresno carriers checked between August 2024 and August 2026, with a median model year of 2020. Whatever year yours is, have the title in hand and note the model year and engine on the first message.
Those same FMCSA roadside inspection records put 12.3 percent of the Fresno trucks checked at ten or more model years old. If you have the inspection reports from stops like these, keep them with the title; they help us confirm the VIN and the equipment fitted.
The median Fresno truck covered 74,545 miles a year across the 3,541 carriers reporting mileage to FMCSA’s carrier census. Read the odometer before you call us and give the figure along with the VIN, so the first conversation covers the truck you actually have.
Rail yards and the fuel terminal south-east of town
The North American Rail Network maintained by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics places Fresno Yard 3 miles west of the city and Calwa Yard 5.8 miles to the south-east. Day cabs that shuttled boxes between those yards and the packing sheds can be collected right where they sit near the tracks; give us the street address and a gate contact.
South-east of Fresno, the Energy Information Administration lists a petroleum product terminal 7.9 miles out, and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics records a liquid bulk terminal at 14.9 miles. For a tank truck that loaded at either site, tell us what the tank last carried and whether it has been cleaned, and have its tank test paperwork ready to send.
Fresno Yosemite International ANG, a military installation the Bureau of Transportation Statistics places 4.5 miles east of the city, sits near the airport side of town. If your truck is parked on that east side, describe the access to the lot so the pickup driver arrives with the right equipment.
Gravel and stone north of the city
The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists Rockfield Plant, a sand and gravel operation 10.7 miles north of Fresno, and Austin Quarry, a crushed-stone site 16.1 miles north. Dump trucks and end-dump tractors that worked those pits can stay on site for collection; the operator usually needs advance notice of who is arriving, so give us the site contact.
Academy Black, a dimension-stone quarry on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s register, sits 16.5 miles north-east of the city. A truck that hauled cut stone from there may carry a flatbed or a heavy-haul setup; list the body, the axle configuration and the trailer type when you send photos.
Fresno County had 1,105 construction establishments according to the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns, and the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts put 14,478 Fresno jobs in construction in 2023. If your mixer, dump or water truck belongs to a construction company, the person authorised to sign for the business should be the one who contacts us.
Farms
Farm country around Fresno County
USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 4,427 farms in Fresno County, with cattle, milk and cotton listed as its leading products. Livestock trailers, milk tankers and module trucks from those operations are on our list; a truck registered to the farm needs the farm’s name on the title to match the seller.
Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting accounted for 2,493 Fresno jobs in 2023 by the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts, alongside 13,227 in manufacturing and 10,351 in wholesale trade. A truck sitting at a ranch outside the city does not need to be driven in; send a pin or directions to the yard and tell us whether the gate is locked.
Bridges and the low one on H Street
Of the 258 bridges the National Bridge Inventory records for Fresno, the Federal Highway Administration lists one with a posted load limit and one with clearance under 14 feet. That low one is the H Street structure over Fresno Street, at 13 ft 2 in according to the National Bridge Inventory.
If your truck is parked near downtown, tell us the route out of the lot and whether it passes under H Street. Send the exact address and a photo of the lot entrance along with the VIN.
Clean-truck rules on the record
The California Air Resources Board’s rulemaking page shows its Advanced Clean Fleets drayage and high-priority fleet requirements as repealed. A federal court filing in the Eastern District of California records enforcement of the 2036 zero-emission sales requirement as paused.
Whatever those rules mean for your fleet plans, selling a truck to us needs the same paperwork in Fresno as anywhere: the title, the registration and any lien release. If a lender still holds the title, give us the lender’s name and we will work the payoff paperwork with you.
The questions we get asked in Fresno
- My reefer sits in a lot by Calwa Yard; must it come into the city first?Leave the reefer by the rail yard. The North American Rail Network places Calwa Yard 5.8 miles south-east of the city, and we collect from there. Give us the lot address and someone who can open the gate.
- My dump truck is still parked at a gravel pit north of Fresno; will you collect it from the pit?We collect at the pit. The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists Rockfield Plant 10.7 miles north of Fresno, and trucks at sites like that are collected where they stand once the operator knows we are coming.
- The truck is titled to our dairy rather than to me, so whose signature goes on the sale?Whoever is authorised to sign for the dairy. With 4,427 farms in Fresno County on USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, many trucks here are titled to a farm, and the name on the title must match the seller.