Frederickson
Rail yards four miles south
The North American Rail Network, kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, places Frederickson Yard 4 miles south of Clover Creek, with a second Frederickson entry at 3.9 miles. A tractor that shuttles between those tracks and the warehouses around them may be parked at a yard gate rather than at your house, so tell us which lot it sits on and who holds the key.
If the truck spends its nights near Frederickson, send a photo of the door sticker with the VIN, a shot of the odometer and a picture of each side of the cab. With those three things and the title in hand, a pickup on the south side of Clover Creek can be lined up around the yard’s own hours.
PCT ramp and the Marshall Avenue docks
About 7.7 miles north, Pierce County Terminal (PCT) appears in the Bureau of Transportation Statistics as a rail intermodal ramp, and the same agency lists the Port of Tacoma Marshall Avenue Auto Facility, a roll-on/roll-off terminal, at 7.6 miles. Day cabs that pulled chassis off that ramp often stay on the tideflats between runs, and we can collect one there if you tell us the yard address and the gate contact.
Two liquid bulk terminals, Truck-Rail Handling Inc at 7.5 miles north-west and Arrow Reload Washington Inc. at 7.5 miles north, are both on the Bureau of Transportation Statistics terminal list. A tractor that pulled tank trailers between those reload sites should come with its registration and any inspection sheets you kept from them, so the history travels with the photos.
Two pits east of Clover Creek
Records from the Mine Safety and Health Administration show Canyon Resources, a sand and gravel operation, 4.2 miles north-east of town, and Thun Field Pit 5.5 miles south-east. Dump trucks and end-dump tractors that load at either pit are part of what we buy in Clover Creek, and a truck left at a pit can be fetched from there once the operator agrees to let us in.
Construction work accounted for 927 of the 2,896 jobs located here in 2023, 32 percent, by the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts, and County Business Patterns from the Census Bureau records 82 construction establishments. If your dump truck or mixer worked those sites, list the body type and the axle setup when you write to us, since those two details shape how we plan the haul.
Log loads, lowboys and reefers
FMCSA’s carrier census lists 148 active carriers based in Clover Creek; 75 of them haul general freight, 28 carry machinery and large objects, 19 move logs, poles, beams and lumber, and 15 run refrigerated food. A log truck, a lowboy tractor or a reefer unit from this town is a vehicle we will look at, and the cargo you hauled is a useful line to put in your first message.
Only 36 of the town’s 148 carriers cross state lines, FMCSA’s census shows, against 112 staying inside Washington, and 87 are private fleets moving their own goods. Private-fleet trucks are often titled to the business rather than a person, so have whoever signs for the company ready to sign the title when we arrive.
The three biggest fleets on file with FMCSA run 444, 84 and 68 power units, and FMCSA records 3 new carriers registered here in 2025 after 6 in 2024. Selling one unit out of a larger fleet works the same way as selling a lone truck: one title, one VIN, one place to collect it.
Within a hundred miles of Pierce County
Drivers working for local carriers are split 812 within 100 miles and 324 beyond it, according to FMCSA’s carrier census, and the median truck among 47 reporting carriers logs 28,000 miles a year. Give us the address where yours is usually parked, whether that is a home driveway or a shop lot in Pierce County.
Clover Creek’s 256 trucks stopped at FMCSA roadside inspections from September 2024 to August 2026 had a median model year of 2019, and 35.9 percent of them were ten or more years old. Whatever the model year on your registration, include it with the make and model so the paperwork lines up with the truck.
Ecology’s truck rules and the county’s cut-flower farms
For a Clover Creek owner, the Ecology publication on Washington’s Clean Vehicles Program marks Advanced Clean Trucks and the heavy-duty Low NOx Omnibus standards as enforcement paused, with its updated guidance on them in force. If you have questions about which rule applies to your tractor, the Ecology publication is the place to read it, and none of it stops you selling a truck you already own.
USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 1,347 farms in Pierce County, with cut flowers and greens, cattle and hemp at the top. A farm truck, livestock hauler or flatbed used for nursery stock out in the county can be collected at the farm gate, as long as the title is in the name of whoever is selling.
The questions we get asked in Clover Creek
- My tractor is parked at a Port of Tacoma yard. Can you collect it from the port instead of Clover Creek?The Port of Tacoma Marshall Avenue Auto Facility sits 7.6 miles north of Clover Creek on the Bureau of Transportation Statistics list, and we collect trucks from yards like that one. Name the tideflats yard and someone there who can let our driver through.
- Will you take a dump truck that loads at Thun Field Pit?Thun Field Pit, 5.5 miles south-east in Mine Safety and Health Administration records, is a sand and gravel operation, and dump trucks from pits like it are part of what we buy. A VIN plus pictures of the dump body and cab, taken at the pit if that is where it sits, gets things started.
- If a Clover Creek private fleet is selling one of its tractors, which person at the firm signs it over?Among Clover Creek’s 148 carriers, FMCSA’s census counts 87 private fleets, whose tractors tend to be titled in the company name rather than a driver’s. The person authorised to sign for the company signs the title, and we need that name before pickup.