Tracy Yard and the terminal east of town
The North American Rail Network, kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, places Tracy Yard 3 miles east of the city. If your day cab shuttles boxes between that yard and the warehouses around Tracy, tell us which lot it sits on between shifts, since that is where we will collect it.
A petroleum product terminal called Tracy Terminal lies 5.9 miles east, according to the Energy Information Administration. A tractor that has pulled fuel tankers out of that gate should come with its registration and any hazmat inspection paperwork you kept, and the tank trailer can be listed alongside it if you want to sell both.
Lathrop
Boxes from the Lathrop ramp and the depot
Lathrop shows up in Bureau of Transportation Statistics listings as a rail intermodal ramp 12.8 miles north-east of Tracy. Owners who have hauled containers off that ramp can send us the VIN, the odometer reading and photos of the chassis along with the cab before anything else.
Just past it, at 13.1 miles, the North American Rail Network shows the Lathrop Intermodal Terminal, and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics lists the Def Distr Reg West Sharpe Site at 12.7 miles in the same direction. If your tractor is parked inside a secured yard out there, give us the name of whoever can open the gate so the pickup can be planned with them.
Sand and gravel toward Mossdale and Vernalis
Mine Safety and Health Administration records place the Mossdale Plant, a sand and gravel operation, 8.1 miles east of Tracy. Dump trucks and end-dump tractors that load there can be collected from the plant lot or from your own yard, wherever the truck is parked when you reach us.
South-east of town, the Mine Safety and Health Administration lists a Vernalis Plant for sand and gravel at 8.9 miles and a Vernalis industrial-mineral mine at 10.4 miles. Bring the title and the most recent service records for any aggregate hauler from those sites, and send pictures of the bed and the hoist with the rest.
Who runs freight out of Tracy
FMCSA’s carrier census counts 1,682 active carriers based in Tracy, with 1,043 operating intrastate, 637 crossing state lines and 201 operating private fleets. Whichever group you belong to, have your USDOT number handy when you contact us so we can match the truck to its registration.
General freight is the cargo listed by 1,123 of those carriers in FMCSA’s census, while 285 haul fresh produce, 235 carry refrigerated food and 235 move meat. If your tractor pulled a reefer, tell us whether the trailer is part of the sale and send photos of the refrigeration unit too.
New registrations in Tracy came to 117 in 2024 and 109 in 2025, per FMCSA’s carrier census, and the three biggest local fleets in that census field 352, 201 and 150 power units. A small outfit or a single owner-operator gets the same process as a fleet: one truck, one title, one pickup address.
Warehousing jobs and county farms
Of 44,587 jobs counted in the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts for 2023, 20,969, or 47 percent, sit in transportation and warehousing, with 3,123 in manufacturing and 2,312 in wholesale trade. Box trucks and day cabs that serve those distribution buildings are trucks we purchase, and a fleet manager can list several units in one message.
San Joaquin County holds 3,439 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, with milk, cattle and corn as its top products. Livestock haulers, milk tankers and grain trucks parked on a ranch can be collected right there, so give us directions to the gate and a phone number for whoever is on site.
Tracy’s construction trade spans 237 establishments, alongside 35 in warehousing, in the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns. Contractors selling a dump truck, flatbed or water truck should have the title in the business name ready, plus whoever signs for the company.
Fleet age and what to have ready
FMCSA roadside inspection records for Tracy-based trucks, 2,037 of them stopped between August 2024 and August 2026, show a median model year of 2020 and 18 percent at ten or more years old. Whatever the year of yours, note it with the make, model and engine when you first get in touch.
When a California title has gone missing, the state’s title agency handles the replacement, and it helps to start that request before we arrange the pickup. Gather the registration card, any lien release and your inspection or service records together so the sale closes in one visit.
The questions we get asked in Tracy
- My reefer tractor sits in a yard by the Lathrop ramp; does it have to come back to Tracy first?Leave it there: Bureau of Transportation Statistics listings put the Lathrop ramp 12.8 miles north-east of Tracy, and we collect the truck where it sits once you tell us whose yard it is in.
- Can you pick up a gravel truck at the Mossdale Plant?We can, since the Mine Safety and Health Administration lists the Mossdale Plant 8.1 miles east of Tracy and collection there only needs a contact at the plant who can let us in.
- I hauled milk for a San Joaquin County dairy; would you take that tanker and tractor?Milk tankers and their tractors are on our list, and USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture names milk as the county’s top farm product across 3,439 farms; send the title and photos to start.