Petroleum terminals west of Commerce City
The Energy Information Administration lists a petroleum product terminal named DENVER 4.9 miles west of Commerce City and another, DUPONT, 6.9 miles west. If your tractor has pulled fuel tankers between those racks, send us the VIN, the registration and photos of the cab, the frame and the fifth wheel before anything else.
Two liquid bulk terminals appear on the Bureau of Transportation Statistics list near town, one 5.9 miles west and Sunco at 9.8 miles south-west. A tractor that stays parked inside one of those gated yards can be collected there; give us the gate contact and the hours the yard is open so the pickup can be arranged with them.
Sand Creek and the Denver intermodal ramp
Sand Creek, a rail yard 9 miles south-west of town, is mapped by the North American Rail Network that the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics maintain. Day cabs that shuttle between that yard and the warehouses around Commerce City are trucks we buy, and the title in your name is the first document we ask to see.
About 11.7 miles south-west, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics places the Denver, CO rail intermodal ramp. For a container tractor that ran off that ramp, tell us the odometer reading and whether the registration is current, and say if the chassis it pulled is yours to sell as well.
Sand and gravel pits north of town
Ten miles north, the Mine Safety and Health Administration records the Amrize Platte Valley Plant, and Riverbend Sand and Gravel sits 10.5 miles north on the same agency’s list. Dump trucks and belly-dump tractors from those pits can stay on site; tell us which pit and whether we can reach the truck without moving other equipment.
County Business Patterns from the Census Bureau counts 332 construction establishments in the area, and LEHD job counts from the Census Bureau put 5,045 Commerce City jobs in construction in 2023. If your dump truck or mixer worked those jobs, gather the service records you kept and any inspection paperwork with the title.
Freight, car haulers and coil trailers on Commerce City rosters
FMCSA’s carrier census shows 1,617 active carriers based here, with 839 hauling general freight, 242 hauling machinery and large objects, 168 hauling motor vehicles and 161 hauling metal sheets, coils and rolls. Flatbeds, step decks and car haulers sit beside dry vans in that mix, and each one is a truck we purchase.
Of those carriers, the same FMCSA census lists 1,283 as intrastate, 334 as interstate and 708 as private fleets. An owner of a single truck selling out of a private fleet still needs the title and the registration; a fleet manager selling several units can send one list of VINs and we will work through it with you.
New registrations keep arriving, and FMCSA’s carrier census records 121 new carriers here in 2025 after 85 in 2024. If you started hauling recently and the truck is still financed, tell us the lienholder at the start so the title release is part of the plan.
Commerce City tractors at the inspection scale: a 2020 median
FMCSA roadside inspection records between August 2024 and August 2026 cover 1,830 trucks from Commerce City carriers, with a median model year of 2020 and 31.6 percent of them ten or more years old. Whatever the model year of yours, send the year, make and model with the VIN and we can start.
Drivers here work short and long routes: FMCSA’s carrier census counts 5,524 drivers operating within 100 miles and 3,555 beyond it. A sleeper that is out on a run can be collected once it is back in the yard; tell us where it will be parked and when.
Advanced Clean Trucks and Low NOx rules for Commerce City owners
Colorado’s Air Quality Control Commission has the Advanced Clean Trucks Rule in force as part of its Colorado Clean Cars and Trucks Regulation. If you are replacing a diesel tractor in Commerce City under that regulation, the one you are retiring is still a truck we buy.
The Heavy-Duty Low NOx Rule, from the same commission, is also listed as in force. Keep the emissions labels and engine paperwork with the truck, and include a photo of the engine label with the other pictures you send.
The questions we get asked in Commerce City
- My tanker sits inside a terminal yard west of Commerce City. Does it have to come out before you collect?It can stay put: the Energy Information Administration lists the DENVER and DUPONT petroleum product terminals 4.9 and 6.9 miles west of town, and we collect from yards like those. Send the name of whoever controls that terminal gate and the times a driver is allowed through.
- My dump truck is kept at the Riverbend pit. Will you collect it from the gravel operation itself?We will, since the Mine Safety and Health Administration places Riverbend Sand and Gravel 10.5 miles north of Commerce City, and the truck can be loaded on site once the operator clears our access.
- Is a Commerce City car hauler something you purchase?It is, and FMCSA’s carrier census counts 168 carriers here hauling motor vehicles, so bring the title and registration for the tractor and the trailer to the sale.