Washington's trucks work between the Sound and the wheat. FMCSA's census, in the release of October 2026, counts a little over 50,000 carriers at Washington addresses, and about seven in ten of them are registered for in-state work only. Half are private fleets, hauling their own goods rather than for hire. More than nine thousand of them carry machinery and large objects, seven and a half thousand carry logs, poles and lumber, seven thousand carry farm supplies, seven thousand carry grain, feed and hay, and more than six thousand carry fresh produce. Picture the trucks: the log truck coming down to the mills at Longview, a day cab draying boxes out of Tacoma and Seattle, the grain truck at harvest in the Palouse, a semi truck with a reefer of apples out of Yakima, a dump truck loading at Enumclaw or Bremerton, the tanker that filled at Ferndale, and the box truck or pickup one of those private fleets runs for its own deliveries. We buy each of them.
Where the work is: ships call at Seattle, Tacoma, Everett, Olympia, Longview, Kalama, Vancouver and Grays Harbor, vehicles roll on and off at Tacoma's Blair, Marshall Avenue and Sitcum terminals and the TOTE berth for Alaska, at Vancouver's Terminal 4, at Aberdeen and at Seattle's Terminal 115, and containers go onto rail at Terminals 5, 18 and 30 and the SIG and Argo yards in Seattle, at the North Yard and TacSIM in Tacoma, at Husky, Pierce County and Washington United on the Tacoma tideflats, and at Spokane. The 116 rail yards in our data run from Argo and Balmer in Seattle, Auburn and the Delta yard at Everett down to Vancouver, Longview and Centralia, over the mountains to Hedges at Pasco, Wenatchee and Yardley at Spokane, and up to Sumas at the border. Cement comes out of Seattle and from the Bellingham plant at Marietta-Alderwood, rock out of the quarries at Enumclaw, Bremerton, Mount Vernon, North Bonneville, Goldendale, Shelton, Kapowsin, Castle Rock and Fife, industrial minerals out of Quincy and silica from Lane Mountain at Valley, and metal from the Pend Oreille mine at Metaline Falls, and there are 75 sand and gravel pits in the towns our data covers, Arlington, Issaquah, Sumner, Ellensburg and Spokane Valley among them. Fuel loads at Seattle, Tacoma, Renton, Vancouver, Ferndale, Hoquiam, Pasco, Moses Lake and Spokane. Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Fairchild outside Spokane, Naval Base Kitsap at Bremerton, Bangor and Keyport, Whidbey Island and the magazine at Indian Island keep military fleets. Wheat is the top farm product in 11 of the 39 Washington counties in USDA's 2022 census, milk in 11, cattle in 10, cut Christmas trees in three and horses in two, so the grain truck, the milk tanker and the horse van belong on this list too. Say where the truck is and whether you want it collected, bought remotely, or you'd rather bring it to us.
The county auditor and the title
The title settles most of it. In Washington the Department of Licensing replaces a lost one by mail, and says it mails titles within six to eight weeks; if you need it in hand sooner, the Quick Title is the route, through the county auditor's vehicle licensing office or a subagent. In Seattle that's King County's office at 201 South Jackson Street; in Tacoma, the Pierce County auditor at 2401 South 35th Street; in Everett, the Snohomish County auditor at 3000 Rockefeller Avenue; in Vancouver, the Clark County auditor at 1300 Franklin Street; in Spokane, the county auditor at 1116 West Broadway Avenue; in Yakima, 128 North 2nd Street. Put in for the title, then write to us; neither one waits on the other.
If there's a lien, the lender's payoff comes first and is the slow piece, so start it early. If the title is branded, say so in the first message and we go on from there.
No single number, by design
Washington's weight law doesn't resolve to one figure. Section 46.44.041 of the Revised Code puts 20,000 pounds on a single axle and 34,000 on each of two tandems set 36 feet or more apart, with everything in between on the bridge formula up to 105,500 pounds gross, and lets the state by rule for its highways, or a county for its own roads, extend that table to 115,000. Under section 46.44.080 a county can restrict a road that rain, snow or thaw would seriously damage, and Washington writes down what most states leave implied: the restriction is not effective until the signs are up and being maintained. The sign is the rule. Those were your truck's working numbers, and they don't enter into the sale. A gravel train that ran at 105,500, a tandem dump truck, a heavy-haul tractor that moved on permits, a utility truck that never saw a scale: the same offer for every one.
The first message is short: year, make, model and VIN, photos from every side, a photo of the title, and the town the truck is in. Sleeper, day cab, heavy-haul tractor, dump truck, roll-off, mixer, garbage truck, wrecker or rotator, log truck, tanker, boom or crane truck, box truck, straight truck, utility truck, pickup or dually: it's the same message for all of them, and what comes back is an offer.