Aggregate haulers between the island quarry and the gravel pits
The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists Rock Plant, a crushed-stone quarry, 1.1 miles north-west of Camano, and Greenbank, Inc., a sand and gravel operation, 6.2 miles west. A dump truck or end-dump tractor that has hauled aggregate out of either one can be collected where it last loaded or where it sits at home on the island. Give us the street address or the pit gate, and a name we can call on the day.
Further east, Smokey Point Pit is a sand and gravel operation 15.1 miles from town, again on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list. If your truck is parked on the mainland near that pit rather than on Camano, say so when you first contact us, and send photos of the bed, the cab and the VIN plate so we know which truck we are coming for.
Lowboys, log trucks and box trucks registered on the island
Of the 98 active carriers FMCSA’s carrier census places in Camano, general freight is listed by 43 and machinery or large objects by 29. A box truck, flatbed or lowboy tractor from either line is a truck we collect, and having the title and current registration in hand before we arrive keeps the handover short.
Eighteen Camano carriers haul logs, poles, beams and lumber, and 8 carry farm supplies, according to the same FMCSA census. For a log truck or a farm-supply hauler, tell us what is mounted on it, such as a loader, bunks or a dump body, and include a photo of each piece so nothing is left off the description.
Of those 98 carriers, 90 operate intrastate only, 8 run interstate, and 65 are private fleets hauling their own goods, as FMCSA records them. The three biggest Camano fleets in that census run 20, 7 and 5 power units. Whether you are selling one truck from a fleet of twenty or the only tractor you own, we handle each title individually, so list every VIN you want to sell.
Island trucks, mainland routes
Camano carriers report 141 drivers working within 100 miles and 109 beyond that radius in FMCSA’s census. A truck that spends its weeks off the island may be at a job site or a yard elsewhere when you decide to sell, and we can collect it there; give us that address instead of your home one.
Among 15 Camano carriers that reported mileage to FMCSA, the median is 10,000 miles a truck each year. Note the odometer reading when you photograph the dash, and send it with the VIN; those two figures start every conversation we have about a truck.
Construction jobs and farms in Island County
Construction accounts for 227 of the 1,560 jobs counted in Camano for 2023, or 14.6 percent, on the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts, and the island’s 92 construction establishments appear in the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns. If your dump truck, flatbed or water truck has served building sites here, keep its service records together with the title so they come with the sale.
In Island County, USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 377 farms, with cattle, horses and corn at the top of the list. Livestock haulers and feed or grain trucks off those farms are trucks we collect, often right from the barnyard; tell us whether the truck is in a field or on a gravelled lane so we bring the right equipment.
Rail yards, the seaport and nearby installations
Two rail yards at Arlington, ARLINGTON YARD and ARLINGTON, sit 15.6 miles east of Camano on the North American Rail Network kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. The Bureau of Transportation Statistics also names Everett, 16.4 miles south-east, as a strategic seaport. A tractor based near either one can stay put; tell us whose lot it is on so the pickup is arranged with them.
Listed by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics as military installations, OLF Coupeville lies 8.3 miles west and the Marysville site 13.6 miles east. If your truck is parked anywhere with gated or controlled access, let us know who can let a driver in, and have the paperwork ready at the gate.
Where Washington’s heavy-duty emission standards stand
Washington’s Department of Ecology lists enforcement of the Advanced Clean Trucks rule, adopted through its Clean Vehicles Program, as paused, and Ecology’s guidance shows the same paused status for the Heavy-Duty Low NOx Omnibus standards under WAC 173-423-081.
Ecology’s updated regulatory guidance for those rules is in force. If you have questions about how they touch a truck you plan to sell, read that guidance directly; for the sale itself, the title, registration and your photos are what we ask for.
The questions we get asked in Camano
- My dump truck is parked at a gravel pit near Camano rather than at my house, so do you go to the pit for it?Rock Plant, 1.1 miles north-west, and Greenbank, Inc., 6.2 miles west, are both on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list, and we collect from pits like those. Tell us which pit gate the truck is behind and who on site can unlock it for our driver.
- Our private fleet on Camano has three or four trucks to let go of; can they go in one sale?FMCSA’s census shows 65 private fleets among Camano’s 98 carriers, and selling more than one truck is routine for us. Send the VIN, the title and a set of photos for each truck.
- My log truck works off-island most of the week. Do you come to it, or does it have to be on Camano?Camano carriers report 109 drivers working beyond 100 miles in FMCSA’s census, so many trucks are away from home; we collect from wherever yours is parked. Tell us the address and when it will be there.