Quarries a mile from downtown
The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists Kitsap Quarry, a crushed-stone operation 1.1 miles north-east of Bremerton, and Plant 1, another crushed-stone quarry 1.2 miles to the east. Dump trucks and end-dump tractors loading at those faces may be parked on site when you call; give us the gate contact and the hours the quarry lets outside vehicles in.
South of town, Bear Creek is a sand and gravel operation 5.4 miles to the south-west and Bethel Pit sits 6.8 miles south-east, both on Mine Safety and Health Administration records. If your truck hauled aggregate out of either pit, send photos of the body, the hoist plate and the cab, plus the VIN, so we know which unit we are collecting from a gravel yard.
Navy and rail
Shipyard gates and the Bremerton Naval yard
NG Bremerton lies 1.9 miles east and Naval Base Kitsap Bremerton 3.6 miles east, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Trucks that serve those installations often sit behind controlled access, so tell us whether a pass or escort is needed and who can meet us at the entry point.
Three miles east, a rail yard named BREMERTON NAVAL appears in the North American Rail Network kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. That rail network, from the Federal Railroad Administration, also places SEATTLE TERMINAL #5 16.4 miles east, across the water. A tractor that shuttled freight to the Seattle terminal can stay on the Seattle side; give us that address instead of driving it back to Kitsap.
Sinclair Inlet’s trucking firms
Of the 213 Bremerton carriers active in FMCSA’s carrier census, 143 haul their own goods as private fleets, while 188 stay inside Washington and just 25 hold interstate authority. Most sellers here therefore hold a Washington registration only; have that card and the title together before we arrive.
By cargo, the same FMCSA census shows 96 carriers hauling general freight, 37 moving machinery and large objects, 32 carrying logs, poles, beams or lumber, and 30 collecting garbage, refuse and trash. Log trucks, lowboys, box trucks and side-loaders all fit what we buy, and a list of attached equipment such as bunks, cranes or packer bodies helps us identify the unit.
Nine new carriers registered in 2025 and six in 2024, the federal carrier census records. If your authority is recent and you are selling the only truck on it, tell us the USDOT number so the title, registration and carrier record line up.
Roadside checks of 87 Bremerton-based trucks from October 2024 to August 2026, held in FMCSA roadside inspection records, put the middle model year at 2014 and show 55 percent built a decade or more back. Have the model year, engine make and odometer reading in your first message; those three answer most of our early questions.
Thirty-six carriers reporting to FMCSA show a median of 11,000 miles per truck a year. Drivers registered locally number 912 working within 100 miles and 180 beyond it in the same carrier census, so most units here stay near home and are usually parked within Kitsap County when we collect.
Fleet sizes in the FMCSA carrier census run from a 146-power-unit operation with 172 drivers to fleets of 46 and 25 units. If you are releasing several trucks at once, send a list with each VIN and the yard where it sits.
Jobs, builders and tree farms
Of 16,674 jobs counted in Bremerton for 2023 by the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts, 1,184 were in manufacturing, 758 in transportation and warehousing, 448 in construction and 300 in wholesale trade. Box trucks, flatbeds and tractors serving those employers can be collected from a shop lot as easily as from a driveway.
Bremerton’s ZIP codes hold 158 construction firms, per the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns. Contractors selling a dump truck, flatbed or crane truck should gather the title, the current registration and any service records before we schedule the pickup.
USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 570 farms in Kitsap County, with cut Christmas trees, short-term woody crops and cattle at the top. A farm truck used for tree harvests or stock hauling is one we buy too; tell us which field or barn it is parked at.
Ecology’s emission rules for Kitsap trucks
Washington’s Department of Ecology lists enforcement of Advanced Clean Trucks, adopted through the state’s Clean Vehicles Program, as paused. Ecology’s guidance shows the Heavy-Duty Low NOx Omnibus standards for medium- and heavy-duty vehicles paused as well.
An update to Ecology’s regulatory guidance covering Advanced Clean Cars II, Advanced Clean Trucks and the Low NOx Omnibus is in force. None of it stops you selling a truck you own; bring the title and we handle the rest.
The questions we get asked in Bremerton
- Can my dump truck stay at the Bethel Pit gravel yard instead of coming into Bremerton?Leave it at the pit; Bear Creek, 5.4 miles south-west, and Bethel Pit, 6.8 miles south-east, are both on Mine Safety and Health Administration records, and we collect from either. Give us the gate contact.
- The truck worked out of the Seattle rail terminal. Can it stay across the water?Keep it on the Seattle side, since the North American Rail Network places SEATTLE TERMINAL #5 16.4 miles east of Bremerton; tell us the address and we arrange collection there.
- Will you take a log hauler that works the Kitsap Peninsula?We will; FMCSA’s carrier census shows 32 Bremerton carriers hauling logs, poles, beams or lumber. Send the VIN, shots of the bunks and stakes, and whose name is on the Washington title.