Rail on the shoreline
Two rail yards off San Pablo Bay
Just 1.3 miles west of Tara Hills, North Bay Yard is mapped on the North American Rail Network that the Federal Railroad Administration keeps with the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. A tractor that shuttles freight to and from that yard is likely parked within a few streets of home, so give us the exact address and the name of whoever holds the keys.
Chevron Yard lies 4.8 miles south-west on the North American Rail Network map. If your truck worked the sidings there, have the title in your name, the current California registration and any service records together before you call; those three papers answer most of what we ask about a yard tractor or a straight truck.
The port and the Point Potrero terminal
Richmond’s port is listed by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics at 3.7 miles south-west of Tara Hills. A day cab that hauls between those docks and the bay towns can be collected from your driveway in Tara Hills rather than from a port lot.
Point Potrero Marine Terminal, a roll-on/roll-off berth at the Port of Richmond, is 6.4 miles out on the Bureau of Transportation Statistics list. If your truck is still inside a terminal gate, tell us which gate it is and who signs vehicles out, and we arrange the collection with the terminal staff.
Racks, rock, fuel depot
Tankers, aggregate and the defense fuel point
Two petroleum product terminals named Richmond appear in Energy Information Administration records at 5.5 and 5.6 miles south-west. A tractor that pulled tank trailers from those racks should come with its registration and any inspection reports you kept, and photos of the cab, frame and fifth wheel help us see the whole unit.
Across the water to the west, the San Rafael Rock Quarry is a crushed-stone operation 7.4 miles away on Mine Safety and Health Administration listings. Dump trucks and end-dump tractors that hauled rock from it can be sold from wherever they now sit; send the VIN and odometer reading first.
Eastward, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics records the Ozol Defense Fuel Support Point, a military installation 8.6 miles from town. If your truck served that site, mention it when you reach us so our questions fit the work the truck actually did.
Tara Hills jobs, Contra Costa ranches
In 2023, 508 jobs were based in Tara Hills itself, by the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts. Whether your work truck stays at home in Tara Hills or at a yard elsewhere around the bay, we meet you where it is parked.
Cattle head the Contra Costa County farm list, ahead of flower seeds and of bulbs, corms, rhizomes and tubers, across the 405 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture. Livestock haulers, flatbeds and farm straight trucks from those operations are on the list of what we purchase; tell us which ranch or nursery the truck is kept at.
Selling a diesel tractor under today’s Air Resources Board rules
The California Air Resources Board’s Advanced Clean Fleets drayage and high priority fleet requirements are listed as repealed, according to the agency’s 2025 rulemaking notice. For a port tractor that works Richmond’s docks, that leaves the title and registration as the papers to gather when you sell.
Enforcement of the 2036 requirement for all medium- and heavy-duty sales to be zero-emission is paused under a federal court filing in the Eastern District of California, and the Advanced Clean Trucks Regulation is contested after the board’s amendments. Neither status stops a diesel tractor in Contra Costa County from changing hands; keep the title and registration ready as with any sale.
The questions we get asked in Tara Hills
- My tractor stays by North Bay Yard off the bay shore; does it have to come to you?North Bay Yard is 1.3 miles west of Tara Hills on the North American Rail Network, and we collect the truck where it stands there or at your house. Send the street address and a contact who can let our driver onto the lot.
- My truck sits inside the Point Potrero terminal; will you pick it up from inside the gate?Point Potrero, 6.4 miles south-west on Bureau of Transportation Statistics records, is a gated roll-on/roll-off terminal, so tell us who at the Port of Richmond releases vehicles and we arrange collection through them.
- Does the repealed drayage rule affect selling my port tractor?The Air Resources Board lists the Advanced Clean Fleets drayage requirements as repealed, so they do not stand in the way of selling a tractor that works the Richmond docks.