Two quarries within a short haul of Dakota Ridge
Just 3.3 miles west of Dakota Ridge, the Mine Safety and Health Administration lists Amrize Morrison Quarry, where crushed stone is cut from the foothills. Tri-axle dumps and end-dump tractors that shuttle aggregate off that hillside are welcome here, and if yours is still parked at a pit-side lot, give us the gate contact so a pickup can be arranged on site.
Further out, Spec Agg Quarry sits 7.2 miles north-west, again on Mine Safety and Health Administration records. A truck that split its loads between Morrison and Spec Agg can be collected from either yard; tell us which one it sits in, and send a photo of the VIN plate along with shots of the body and the bed.
Construction work in Dakota Ridge and Jefferson County
Of the 4,415 jobs counted in Dakota Ridge for 2023 by the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts, 386 were in construction, a share of 8.7 percent. Owners of a mixer, a flatbed or a crew truck tied to that trade can reach us with the title in hand and a list of the bodies or equipment mounted on the chassis.
Jefferson County held 239 construction establishments according to the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns. If your company is one of them and is clearing a single unit out of its yard, send us the registration along with the title, plus the name of whoever signs for the business, so the paperwork matches the owner on record.
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Yards and intermodal ramps toward Denver
BIG LIFT AUTORAMP, a rail yard 10.3 miles south-east, appears on the North American Rail Network kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, as does the 31ST STREET yard 13.1 miles north-east. Day cabs that dray between those yards and Dakota Ridge shops are on our list; note which yard the tractor works from so we know where it will most likely be standing.
Two intermodal ramps, Denver, CO at 14.1 miles and Denver, CO - Irondale at 14.4 miles, both north-east, are listed by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. A container tractor that runs those ramps does not need to come back to Dakota Ridge before we collect it, so share the address of the lot where it is parked between moves.
The asphalt terminal and the army reserve center
The Energy Information Administration lists ROOFING & ASPHALT DIV OF OWENS CORNI as a petroleum product terminal 14.2 miles north-east of Dakota Ridge. If you ran a tanker or a heated asphalt rig to that terminal, include the tank’s plate details and any inspection certificates with your photos.
Elmer E Fryar USARC, a military installation 7.4 miles north on Bureau of Transportation Statistics records, sits closer to town than any of the rail yards. Contractors who serviced that site with box trucks or utility bodies can sell a unit from wherever it is stored, as long as someone can let us onto the property.
Cattle, horses and nursery stock in Jefferson County
USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture recorded 531 farms in Jefferson County, with cattle, potted flowering plants and horses as the leading products. Stock trailers’ tow rigs, flatbeds that carry hay and refrigerated straight trucks that move nursery plants all qualify, and a farm-plated truck needs only its title and registration to start.
A ranch truck kept behind a barn outside Dakota Ridge can stay put. Tell us the road it is on and whether a tow truck can reach it in wet weather, and we plan the collection around that access.
Fleet age and Colorado’s clean-truck regulations
FMCSA roadside inspection records for 39 trucks based around Dakota Ridge, inspected between October 2024 and August 2026, show a median model year of 2019, with 46 percent ten or more years old. Whatever the model year of yours, have the VIN, the title and any service records ready when you contact us.
Colorado’s Advanced Clean Trucks Rule and its Heavy-Duty Low NOx Rule, both adopted by the state’s Air Quality Control Commission, are in force. Owners weighing what to do with a diesel unit under those rules can sell it to us as it stands, with the emissions paperwork that came with the truck.
The questions we get asked in Dakota Ridge
- Will you pick up a dump truck that sits at the Amrize pit near Morrison?Amrize Morrison Quarry is 3.3 miles west of Dakota Ridge on Mine Safety and Health Administration records, and we collect from the quarry lot or your yard. Pass along the name of the quarry staffer holding the gate key for that pickup.
- Does a tractor left by the Irondale intermodal ramp have to be driven back to Dakota Ridge first?Denver, CO - Irondale sits 14.4 miles north-east of Dakota Ridge per the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, and the tractor can stay there. Send the lot address and who manages it.
- What paperwork should a Jefferson County construction company have ready?With 239 construction establishments in Jefferson County per County Business Patterns, we often deal with business-owned titles; have the title, the registration and the name of the person authorized to sign for the company.